Zoo Studio 2011 Quick Review

What a year 2011 was at Zoo Stu­dio!  Never a dull moment, but we weren’t quite pre­pared for the way the year started.

The Floods came just as we were plan­ning on being back in the office, instead we found our­selves out at the RSPCA Fair­field shel­ter help­ing in the post floods cleanup. The RSPCA used our pho­tos of the deves­ta­tion they suf­fered to help raise crit­i­cal funds in get­ting their facil­i­ties up and run­ning again, we were so pleased to help.

 

At the begin­ning of the year, we invested sig­nif­i­cantly in new stu­dio equip­ment which has enabled us to offer much more action and play pho­tog­ra­phy. Got a dog that just can’t sit still? A cat that likes to jump and twist and play? A bird that loves to stretch their wings and fly?

We can now cap­ture these images  in the stu­dio in pin shape details in a way we just couldn’t before.

The feed­back from our clients and the joy and smiles on their faces from our action, play­ful pho­tog­ra­phy has made it all worth it!

 

It was a big year for Zoo Stu­dio with Award in 2011. We entered sev­eral com­pe­ti­tions as we like to mea­sure our progress as a pho­tog­ra­phy stu­dio against the very best pho­tog­ra­phy in Aus­tralia and from around the world.

Our pho­tos of birds in flight did very well, with a photo of Char­lie the Eclec­tus Par­rot win­ning us a Sil­ver with Dis­tinc­tion medal at the Aus­tralian Pro­fes­sional Pho­tog­ra­phy Awards.

As a result Ken was made an Asso­ciate of the Aus­tralian Insti­tute of Pro­fes­sional Pho­tog­ra­phy. This is a huge hon­our and one of which we were very proud.

 

We also entered the Photo Dis­trict News ‘Faces’ Com­pe­ti­tion, which is the only note­wor­thy inter­na­tional pho­tog­ra­phy com­pe­ti­tion with a spe­cific sec­tion for Ani­mal por­trai­ture. When we found out we had won the Ani­mal Por­trait cat­e­gory, we were excited, but then find­ing out we had won the over all Grand Prize Win­ner of the entire com­pe­ti­tion — well that was huge and more than just the icing on the cake. Sev­eral thou­sand pho­tog­ra­phers from all over the world entered, and we had won the Grand Prize from all categories!

Our pho­tos scored highly in the Inter­na­tional Loupe Awards, get­ting into the top 50 and win­ning 2 Sil­ver Award Medals and 5 Bronze Award medals.
We were also a final­ist in the Canon Cre­ative Asia competition.

 

In August we took our pho­tog­ra­phy on the road for the first time, vis­it­ing Mel­bourne. We were delighted to book out our avail­able ses­sions in just a cou­ple of hours. This pat­tern was repeated in Novem­ber too.

Beck and I both LOVE Mel­bourne, for the shop­ping, the eat­ing and of course the lovely peo­ple and pets we met while we were there.

 

To round the year of nicely we were invited by the RSPCA to join Pre­mier Anna Bligh and oth­ers on a train ride from their old shel­ter at Fair­field to their brand new state of the art facil­ity at Wacol. If you are in Bris­bane and haven’t yet seen it, you have to go for a look! Even if you aren’t look­ing for a new furry fam­ily mem­ber, they have a great store World for Pets where you can buy any­thing you need for your exist­ing pets, with all money going to the RSPCA. It is the best ani­mal shel­ter in the south­ern hemi­sphere and all Aus­tralia should be proud of it.

So what does 2012 have in store? Well as last year we have our plans, keep an eye on our blog and Face­book page to see how our plans unfold, but I am also sure some­thing sur­pris­ing will hap­pen again. We will be back to Mel­bourne and this year we will also be going to Syd­ney, Can­berra and Townsville. Do get in touch if you live there and are inter­ested in a session.

Have a great year and hope­fully see you in our stu­dio some­where in Australia!

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