IPA is a sister-effort of the Lucie Foundation, where the top three winners are announced at the annual Lucie Awards gala ceremony. The Foundation’s mission is to honor master photographers, to discover new and emerging talent and to promote the appreciation of photography. Since 2003, IPA has had the privilege and opportunity to acknowledge and recognize contemporary photographers’ accomplishments in this specialized and highly visible competition. Visit www.photoawards.com for more details.

Here are the 2 shots that got into the Honorable Mention list.

Honorable Mention in People – Children category for the winning entry “Joy”

Honorable Mention in People – Wedding category for the winning entry “Unwavering Love”

As always the image on the left, is usually the unedited or very basically touched up version of the original shot.

Here’s a preview for the lovely couple, Alvin & Claire.

This was none more evident than last night when I met with a very jovial couple Wenxiang & Irene! Before I could even say, “please take a sit on my comfy couch”, I was fed with nice crispy chicken wings and mouth watering brownies! I did not even have to pull out any drinks from my fridge! Which is probably a first for me! hahaha We went on to have a smashing great time, not just chatting about images or my career but about everything that led us to where we are now and it was really amazing to find out that we have so much in common! It went from common friends who had their weddings covered by me, to us all living in Tampines (in fact Wenxiang is living right next to my block lar! haha), to a common primary school and shockingly common secondary school too! Wenxiang even proposed to Irene @ Jewel box which was near to/exactly the same place I proposed to my wife years ago!

It’s amazing that despite all these similarities, I totally would not have gotten to know them, had I not become a photographer. Now that will be a real bummer.