I couple of weeks ago I got a call to attend The New Zealand 2011 Motorsport Awards evening which was to be held at Te Papa museum. The awards evening is to celebrate the championship winners and also various media awards. Obviously I was never going to win an award for my journalistic skills, but I did manage to collect the “Motorsport Photographer Of The Year 2011″ award.
Unfortunately I was unable to attend the awards due to other commitments but Sarah Byles was good enough to collect the award on my behalf. Apparently she did awesome speech and is a lot better looking (as someone pointed out). I asked her to thank a few people on the evening amongst them were Richard Giltrap and Douglas Blair from Porsche, it’s been great to work with a brand that see’s the value in my style of photography (blurry logos) and what I can offer, so thank you to all the Porsche personnel, teams and drivers for putting up with me and my camera.
And congratulations to Andrew Bright who collected the “Single Shot” Award and what was more impressive is that he survived working with me for the season.
Full Portfolio inside.
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2011 PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR AWARD – PORTFOLIO
There were three judges for this year’s photography awards – one commercial, one a tutor and one a newspaper illustrations editor.
Judges said that the winning portfolio was slick and consistent. The Craig Baird image showed great intense driver emotion. On a whole, the images had crisp post production and were not overly edited.