Happy to share that we recently placed a number of images in the latest PWPC competition! That said, those who know us know we're not huge contest people (we used to be), evolving as photographers and artists we've found the style of contests to be quite one-sided and limiting. Is there really such a huge divide between styles like Junebug vs styles like ISPWP? Yet the two styles would never place in the other contests' winning images. Why? Is it bad photography if it doesn't place? That is the fallacy of contests. It inadvertently creates a style niche that suggests all other styles are irrelevant or invalid. We have problems with that. Allowing our own style to emerge that makes sense to us as artists should always take priority to shooting for awards and recognition. We must pursue what we love as artists first. Then those who believe in our work will support that work. Shooting for "trinkets" as nods in contests should be a very distant priority in the end. And that is our motivating philosophy of why we choose not to submit or remain as active with wedding photography contests as we once did. Still it's nice to be able to send in a few images every now and then (mostly to keep ourselves active in the photography world) when we have the time and have them rank in these contests. Here's a bunch that we sent in last month including a whole bunch that we did not submit but that we absolutely love that would never have been selected in such contests - because it simply doesn't match that style!