It’s fair to say that this isn’t the most up to date news post as it relates to events over a year ago, however it’s relevant because of some more recent events that I’ll post up soon.

Every year Practical Photography magazine hold a ‘Photographer of the Year’ competition that’s open to everyone and anyone around the World. The format has been the same for some time; there are 8 monthly themed rounds that each result in a winner and 9 runners-up progressing onwards. This means 80 photographers move through to round two and these are further whittled down to 6 photographers for a grand final.

Back in October 2008 I entered the Travel round, which happened to be the last of the 8 themed rounds. The photograph was a shot a took in Thailand in June 2008 of a dilapidated house by the side of the Thonburi canals that run through Bangkok.

The actual shot entered into the competition was a sepia toned version of the one entered here. The competition wasn’t only significant because I was one of only eighty photographers (from thousands of entries) to progress to the next round, but it represented the first time that one of my photographs had been seen ‘in-print’. You can see a screen shot of the magazine page here.

Unfortunately I didn’t progress further than round two in the 2008 competition, but it did give me the impetus to enter the 2009 incarnation that brought considerably more success. Keep an eye our for news on that to follow……