Congratulations! You won an Honorable Mention in TIFA 2023 Photo Competition!

I received an e-mail under the above title on January 6, 2024.

The picture that I won HM here in the contest is the color version of the picture that won HM in AnalystSparks 2023.

I mentioned this picture in my previous blog post. So let's look at the color version picture.

 It's my first time applying for TIFA 2023 Photo Competition. It's the same photo, but I'm honored to be able to receive the award by registering with a different edit.

TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS is an international photography competition based in Tokyo, Japan. It has held a photography competition since 2016 and has been holding an annual exhibition of award-winning works.

It's aimed at photographers all over the world, but I already have bifa or mifa, so I'm guessing it's a photo contest that focuses more on Asian photographs.

Next, let's take a look at the certificate in this picture.

Leave a link to the winners page.

https://www.tokyofotoawards.jp/winners/hm/2023/9597

TIFA 2024 is currently open, and if you apply by April 30th, a 10% discount will be applied, so please apply.

I won an HM at Budapest International Foto Awards 2023  in Nature-Flowers (Non-Professional) BIFA2023 / The Flower Of The Universe 02

You might think it's the same as what I wrote a few days ago, but I got 2 HMs in the same photo contest. 😅

So this time, I will show you the certificate first.

This time, I applied under the title [The Flower Of The Universe 02] and won a HM. I'll show you two pictures on WINNER's page.

Now, I'll show you the original picture.

https://budapestfotoawards.com/winners/hm/2023/93-27973-23/

If you look at this picture, the colors look like a mixture of purple and pink. The original color of the flower was not like this, but when I printed it out on a broken printer, the blue ink line broke and it didn't come out, so the color turned out wrong. I felt good because the color seemed to be printed more beautifully.

The reason why I named this photo like [The Flower Of The Universe 02] is because the flowers look like they are receiving the energy of the universe by opening their leaves. And in fact, [The Flower Of The Universe 01] is a black and white edited photo.

I edited this photo according to the way I work with experiment 21. Please refer to my blog post for a detailed explanation of this.

https://idea0404.blogspot.com/2024/03/experiment21-scan-gem-or-water-bottle.html

Last year, I received an HM in this contest, and I'm very happy to win this year as well. Perhaps I'll try to challenge this contest every year so that I can get a higher award.

This time again, the award category is Nature-Flowers (Non-Professional).

The title of this award-winning photo is 'Cosmos In Black'.

Then I'll show you the original picture.

If you keep an eye on this photo, you can see that the cosmos leaves look like crowns. I originally took the photo in color, but I changed it back to black and white.

If you look closely at the side of the cosmos standing in the main, you can see another cosmos faintly.

I'm using Fujifilm camera X-T4 and I'm using Capture One as a photo editing program. It's a useful and easy-to-use program for black and white conversions or other filters.

First, I'll link the page where you can see this picture for yourself.

https://budapestfotoawards.com/winners/hm/2023/93-28132-23



Next, let's look at the certificate.




And Budapest International Foto Awards 2024 [BIFA2024] has opened. If you enter by April 10, 2024, you will get a 5% discount. Link to the main page you can support. Then I wish you all the best.

https://budapestfotoawards.com

I won a HM in the flower category of IPA 2023 contest.

The International Photography Awards™ is a photography contest that is famous for its many categories and its supporting works are quite high quality.
For that reason, the entry fee for this photo contest is much higher than other contests.

On the evening of September 21, 2023, I received an email with the following title.

[Congratulations, you have been awarded an Honorable Mention in IPA 2023!]

This is official Winner Seal/Logo. I really liked the design of this, so I was even more happy. This time, I will show you the original picture.

This photo was taken in early fall on Sep. 8, 2022. The location was Guri Hangang Park in Guri, Korea. When I took this photo, I was focusing on one cosmos, and after that, the cosmos, which was a little far away, shone like a shadow, showing the image of hugging the cosmos in front of me. I didn't miss that moment.

Fujifilm    X-T4    F7.1    ISO160    80mm

XF80mm F2.8 Macro

Next time, I'll show you a page where I can see my picture. I'll also link it to the bottom.

https://photoawards.com/winner/zoom.php?eid=8-1675793843-23

* Additional writing

There is currently a page open to apply for this photo contest. If you are interested, please apply for this contest. 

The early bird discount period is over, but you can officially apply for the contest until mid-June.

I wrote a more detailed story in my blog post, "World BEST TOP 4 PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITIONS". Please participate.

But I don't take film pictures.

It's a film photo contest, so I just watched the award-winning films of the year of production, and in the category description, I saw a phrase that Fine Art can support works that have undergone offline editing, not digital.

At that moment, my curiosity was triggered and I started looking for works that I could apply for. And I selected only one and applied for it. I feel really good that the application received HM.

If you take a slow look at the previous award-winning films, you'll see a lot of very unusual and sweet pictures.

The seal or certificate of this contest has a very simple and neat shape.

Then I'll show you the edited version that I received.

I haven't introduced how to edit this photo yet. I'm going to go into detail later.

I'll show you the pictures that I originally took. This photo was taken on April 29, 2023. At that time, when I was taking pictures, it had been raining for a long time the night before, so the raindrops were covered in tulip flowers.

Fujifilm    X-T4    F2.8    1/480s    ISO160    80mm

XF80mm F2.8 Macro

On this day, I went to Jangja Lake Park and took this picture, and it kept raining a little bit, so I took it with a big umbrella. I took a picture in the rain with an umbrella, so I took a picture of the aperture with the maximum opening.

I'll show you a page where you can go into the link and view it.

https://www.analogsparksawards.com/winner/zoom.php?eid=3-2367-23

Please read the rules of this contest in the link below.

If you look at the website, you can apply until May 15, 2024, so please apply.

https://www.analogsparksawards.com/winner/zoom.php?eid=3-2367-23

On August 17, 2023, I received an email titled [Congratulations! You are a Px3 2023 Winner!] As soon as I saw the title of this email, I went in and read it.

It didn't say exactly what kind of award it was. It was just that you wanted to go to the contest website and see it. After reading the mail, I went to the website right away and checked the history menu to know that I received the gold.

It's a badge that I downloaded there

This is the highest award I've ever received. The gold letters over there made me excited. I guess I'm the only one who knows how luxurious that badge looks. 😅


This time, I'm going to show you the picture that I received the award. First, I'm going to show you the homepage, and then I'm going to show you the original picture.

https://px3.fr/winners/hm/2023/1-107930-23

As anyone who has been to my blog knows, this is a picture currently hanging in the main home. 😄🙃

This photo was taken by me on October 10, 2022.

Fujifilm X-T4 F2.8 1/4400s ISO160 80mm

XF80mm F2.8 Macro

It was an autumn day when the sunlight was so beautiful. I wanted to make the background of this photo look like it's snowing, so I opened the aperture to the maximum. Fortunately, I was happy to create a beautiful background. So it wasn't awkward if the cosmos flower was located a little below.


There's a picture of this picture converted to black and white, but I'll upload it.

Lastly, I will post a certificate that has been certified as an award.

 Cosmos for you

I took a picture of a beautiful cosmos looking at the sun rising in the autumn sky.

I took a picture of this flower with Fujifilm X-T4 and XF80mm Macro.

F7.1    1/1900s    ISO160    80mm    2023.09.08

At the time of this photograph, I took a single cosmos that was getting very strong sunlight on its side.

The sun was so strong that I used spot photometry and the results were taken so beautifully.

With a very dark background, I tried to capture the expression of the flower, the subject, missing someone.

I'll show you the link

https://px3.fr/winners/hm/2023/1-107925-23

/ winners_badge 2023 HM

I received an e-mail today titled "LICC Official Selection Announced". 

I'm very happy to be selected for LICC Official Selection.

I have to wait about three more weeks to see what kind of award my picture will receive.

/ LICC Official Selection seal

Next, let's look at that page

the page of my work

Leave a link to that page  👇

 https://licc.uk/winners/winner.php?id=2-34021-23&OS=true

 I brought an introduction to my photo 👇

Two aspects of Water lily

This is a photo that I took of the water lily flowers at Jangja Lake Park in Guri on May 20, 2023 It's the result of editing and printing this picture in black and white and color, rolling the picture in a circle and putting it on the scanner at the same time, and scanning it.
This picture was made by applying the working method of Experiment08. The title of the post I posted before is like [EXPERIMENT08 - PRINT TWO PICTURES ON ONE SIDE AND SCAN THEM]. If you look at my previous blog post, you can find out how I worked and how I scanned it to complete the results.

It's been almost a month and I still haven't heard from this contest. It's very strange. Usually, after about three weeks, they check how it's going, but it's weird.

MONOCHROME AWARDS 2022 / Honorable Mention in Fine Art(Amateur)

ENTRY TITLE: A water Lily in Gwangneung Arboretum

The above picture was taken on June 4, 2021 at the National Arboretum

(Gwangneung Arboretum) in Korea.

It's fantastic because the building across from the water is shaking and shining.

The water lily, which looked lonely on the surface of the water in the background where the water seemed to flow, looked fantastic.

Monochrome Award is a contest that only accepts black and white photos. It is a contest where the number of photos selected is small and it is quite difficult to be selected.

I was lucky enough to be selected as an honorable mention in this contest, which made me quite happy.

https://monoawards.com/winners-gallery/monochrome-awards-2022/amateur/fine-art/hm/16907

BIFA 2022 / Honorable Mention in Nature-Flowers (Non-Professional)

I received this award at the end of November 2022. 

This picture was taken on September 12, 2022 at Jungnang Rose Park in Korea. 

It looks like a blue whale's heart, so I named it as above. The reason why I named this photo like the title mentioned above was because when we took the photo and edited it, it reminded me of the flower petals surrounding someone's heart. Interestingly, someone felt like a blue whale.

https://budapestfotoawards.com/winners/social/2022/93-26608-22/

* Certificate

What you see above is a sign given to me by BIFA Awards. You can see the title for the work and my name and the category name you applied for. 

As I'll slowly explain later, experimental projects can be either a single task or a combination of two or more tasks. These combinations can have other implications. When I submitted to this photo contest, I was questioned whether my work or experiments would be chosen by the judges, but I was very happy to receive this award.