Malcolm Foo Photography

Eugene Khoo notified me last week over instant messaging. “Hey, your work is out on this month’s publication”. That was too good to be true. My pictures were featured in a Malaysian expatraits’ magazine called “Senses of Malaysia” for July edition. Happy over it, I called up Kar Hooi to share the good news. This is really an achievement for me as my work made it to nation-wide publication.

Today (more like a few hours ago yesterday)… I opened my email and saw “Your 2009 8 x 10 1st Half Print Competition Results” and I went “oh boy…” *fingers crossed*. Here’s the story..

Last year, I aimed to be accepted as a WPJA (Wedding Photojournalist Association) photographer. I dropped the idea later and aimed straight at WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International). The thought that I could maybe just win 1 Accolades of Excellence (AOE) was like a dream. The AOE is awarded to prints above 80 points. As I’m competing against the world’s best wedding photographers, an AOE would be a huge achievement… IF I EVER GET IT.. THAT IS.

WPPI holds annual print competitions where in order to submit, you’d have to:

Register as a WPPI member.
Register & pay for the submission.
Have your submission professionally printed and mounted on a mounting board.
Air courier the prints over to California for it to be judged.

I joined WPPI just 3 months ago in March and submitted 3 prints; The results were

Title: Contemporary Kisses
Category: Engagement
Event: Engagement of Tracy & Jimmy
Points: 80 (AOE awarded)

Title: Let your Light Shine
Category: Non-Weddings Photojournalistic
Event: Christmas Eve Candle Light Service at Trinity Methodist Church, Penang.
Points: 79 (Arghhhhhhhhhhh!! But hey.. I’m happy anyways.. hehe)

Title: Suits in Undies
Category: Humor
Event: Wedding of Tracy & Jimmy in the ever so beautiful Sabah!
Points: 76

I’m so happy I still can’t believe I got an AOE. My thanks goes to my better half Kar Hooi for running around Penang to get the printing & mounting done; Karina for her first class service for getting the prints to WPPI in time. Jasmine Pang for her logistics advice; Louis Pang for his trust, motivation & confidence when I second shot for him last year.. he told me something equivalent to “I know what I’m doing when I picked you” when I shared with him my concerns/doubts.

Again Jasmine & Louis, DUCK RICE & PENANG LAKSA IS ON ME!!!

The other 2 ladies that I mentioned whos name starts with K.. I’m sticking to my end of the deal… its’ E&O for any AOE award.

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