I received one email today that said I won two Honourable Mentions at Tokyo International Foto Awards. I applied for two works for this year's 2024 contest and I'm so happy to receive both awards. I'm a little upset because I received only one email even though I received two awards. 🤣😂
The title of the first piece is Come Out of The Shade Into The Sun
The content of the writing at the bottom is like this.
This year, I welcomed a new morning in my life. I post it here because the flower in the picture looks like it has bloomed in the morning when it opens a new dawn.
I have been photographing as a hobby and I am active in Guri,Korea. For my own expression method, I take various flower photos and use a scanner to work on photography. So a small flower in the soil became a pleasant secret in my heart.
▶▶ https://www.tokyofotoawards.jp/winners/hm/2024/12010/
You can see the second picture below.
The writing below is like this.
In my dream, I saw walking on the field path of autumn. It wasn't that sunny, but I think only good things will happen if I walk along the path where the cosmos is blooming.
I have been photographing as a hobby and I am active in Guri,Korea. For my own expression method, I take various flower photos and use a scanner to work on photography. So a small flower in the soil became a pleasant secret in my heart.
▶▶ https://www.tokyofotoawards.jp/winners/hm/2024/11981/
Anyway, today is a very good day. The economy is bad these days and the situation in our country is unstable, but I hope many good things will happen this year. 🙏
On the day the president of Korea here declared emergency martial law, I received an email saying that I received an award at this photo exhibition.
On this day, I didn't even know I had an email because I kept watching the news about this disturbing situation.
Here in Korea, we are still in a state of political instability. Still, I am very grateful that the people of our country fortunately prevented emergency martial law. 🙏
In 2022 and 2023, I received the HM in this photo exhibit. Still, I'm so happy to receive the statue this year.
⏩ https://budapestfotoawards.com/winners/bifa/2024/8273
Follow the link above to see the following page. Follow the link above to see the following page. 😉
'This is a picture that I took on June 11, 2023, at Jangja Lake Park in Guri. It was amazing because it bloomed early in the cosmos. It was a mysterious experience like a fairy tale.'
Also, I made a video of how to get to this page. It's a very short and simple video. 😊
I'm a member of a photo app called 500px.com , and I'm a favorite photo community.
It is less famous than Instagram and has fewer users, but I think there are many things I can learn from it because there are many high-quality photos posted.
However, I am very happy that the photo uploaded with the transcription of Han Kang's poem was selected by the editor's choice.
 |
| Mobile pages |
Attached is a link to the homepage and a window that can be viewed on mobile.
 |
| 500PX.com Homepage's |
I was so happy because it had never been chosen before.
I have a little bit of a pity in this community these days. There are a lot of high quality photographs, but nowadays there are a lot of photographs that reveal too explicit body parts that cannot be considered high quality. I don't want to welcome this atmosphere of sexizing a woman's body.
Of course, the community here has made it possible to get permission from the viewer again without being exposed at once, but I feel a bit tired because of too many of these photos being exposed.
I hope that other measures will be implemented quickly and become a more authoritative and good-looking community.
I received an e-mail on August 29th. The title of the e-mail is as follows.
" Congratulations, your entry made it to the "Official Selection" Round - IPA 2024! "
Dear Jeongwoo Jeong,
Congratulations! It is my great pleasure to inform you that your entry "Fairy song" has made it to the final round of jury voting and is awarded the title "Official Selection" in the International Photography Awards 2024. The final winners based on the jury's votes will be announced next month, so stay tuned!
Please login to your IPA account and verify that all of your information is current, your profile is complete, and the title of your entry is correct - you can also download your “Official Selection” badge and certificate from here.
Feel free to contact our support team if you have any questions.
We are very much looking forward to announcing the final winners in the 3rd week of September. Thank you for your participation, and congratulations on your great work!
Sincerely,
Hossein Farmani
President, IPA
The photo promoted in this contest is the same as the one that received HM at the PX3 Awards recently. Here's a picture right below.
I'm glad you've been chosen twice for the same photo. I've confirmed that this photo contest allows duplicate entries from different contests. 😉
I have to wait three weeks to know exactly what kind of award I can get. I look forward to hearing good news then, please. 😒
Thankfully, I won the PX3 Awards again this year. While photographing as a hobby, I was most proud of myself and was able to achieve a high sense of accomplishment.
The picture that won this year's award is titled Fairy Song. Below, I show the picture.
 |
| Fairy Song |
This photo was taken on June 11, 2023. It wasn't even summer yet, and it felt great to grow cosmos in the park in advance and see the cosmos that bloom a lot in autumn in spring. This photo was taken with an XF 150-600 telephoto lens.
It was a pretty hot day because the weather was so nice. The cosmos was blooming beautifully, and a small bug stuck to a flower, so I took pictures of it, and the sun was diagonally shining, so it was a great environment to take pictures of.
The reason why I named the picture like this is because the atmosphere of the picture itself is clear and beautiful.
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.
 ){kind=link}
 BIFA2024){kind=link}
 - My Photo '서울의 겨울 12' Poetry by Han Kang){kind=link}
 in PX3 2024 Awards / Nature/Flowers (Non-Professional) ){kind=link}
){kind=link}