It’s been a month of hiatus for me and during that long pause in writing, I was thinking on what to share to all of you since I’m not doing any personal shoots or project. I was browsing my facebook account one day and an acquaintance in photography bagged another prestigious award. Mario Cardenas whom I personally met during our Sony DI Challenge last year was again dominating the world of international photography competitions (he also won our Sony DI challenge, Pro category).

 

 

I was chatting around with my photographer friend Elmer and while we were exchanging ideas, out of nowhere he asked me to check the website of HIPA. I immediately keyed-in their website and I got surprised that the website design was totally revamped and was given a complate facade-lift. To those who have seen the website before the old Arabic inspired template was replaced by a more minimalist approach, which I personally think fits their label of being international.

I found some cool changes in it, they now have a featured banner where a slideshow of previous selected photos can be seen, also they have a newly added menu "Photographers Directory" where I guess they will put the names of previous winners for easy reference, but it is still in working progress.

The great news aside from the newly constructed website is that, this prestigious competition  spearheaded by H.H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum have opened its "Creating the Future" 2014 competition, just 3 days after p their 2013 "Beauty of Light" winner. Aspirants all over the world can submit entries as early as now and take their chance on winning the coveted grand prize of $120,000. 

photo taken from google image

HIPA has once again been kind enough to its participants as they lengthened the time frame for accepting entries, It started last 21st March 2013 and will end up accepting entries on the 31st December 2013. It will be a long 9 months of tedious filtering thousands of photographs from all over the world and a much bigger responsibility for the HIPA team to carefully pick the deserving winners.

So what are you guys waiting for? HIPA is calling all of you to register and join now for HIPA 2014.

Thanks for your time... 

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Me,

                                                                

 The Hot Shoe Anthologist

Last night, the most anticipated, world's richest international photography contest had officially named the winners for the year 2013. The Hamdan International Photography Award ceremony was held at grounds of the Gate building at Dubai International Financial Center. 

The event was well attended and each of the registered attendees got to take home a souvenir from the ceremony which was a Fujifilm 210 Instax camera -- keeping the photography concept at bay, which I believe was really smart. The event was of course graced by it's patron His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohhamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum and other high ranking officials of the U.A.E.

So without further ado here are the winners for each category:

GENERAL

 Guangfei Ji from China

3rd International Winner in General Category 

Photo courtesy of HIPA.

Boris Zulj from Croatia

2nd International Winner in General Category

Photo courtesy of HIPA

Klaus-peter Selzer from Germany

1st International Winner in General Category

Photo courtesy of HIPA 

Mohamed AlSuwaidi from United Arab Emirates

3rd Emirati Winner in General Category

Mansoor AlMannai from United Arab Emirates 

2nd Emirati Winner in General Category

Photo courtesy of HIPA

Abdul Rab Sawad from United Arab Emirates

1st Emirati Winner in General Category

Photo courtesy of HIPA

EMIRATES CATEGORY

Adeeb Alani from Iraq 

3rd Winner in Emirates Category

Photo courtesy of HIPA

Michel Zoghzoghi from Lebanon

2nd winner in Emirates category

Photo courtesy of HIPA

Helmut Wachtarczyk from Germany

1st Winner in Emirates category

Photo courtesy of HIPA 

BLACK and WHITE CATEGORY

Le Duy Hoang from Vietnam

3rd Winner in Black & White Category

Photo courtesy of HIPA

Edwin Djuanda from Indonesia

2nd Winner in Black & White Category

Photo courtesy of HIPA

Chan Kwok Hung from Hong Kong

1st Winner in Black & White Category

Photo courtesy of HIPA

BEAUTY OF LIGHT

Xiaoping Ling from China

3rd International Winner in Beauty of Light Category

Photo courtesy of HIPA

Oscar Bjarnason from Iceland

2nd International Winner in Beauty of Light Category

Photo courtesy of HIPA

Jingsheng Nie from China

1st International Winner in Beauty of light Category

Photo courtesy of HIPA 

Alaaa AlMuttawa from United Arab Emirates

3rd Emirati Winner in Beauty of Light Category

Photo courtesy of HIPA

Omar AlZaabi from United Arab Emirates

2nd Emirati Winner in Beauty of Light Category

Photo courtesy of HIPA

Abdulaziz bin ali from United Arab Emirates

1st Emirati Winner in Beauty of Light Category

Photo courtesy of HIPA

 Osama Al ZUbaidi from United Arab Emirates

Grand Prize Winner of 2nd Season Beauty of Light 

Photo courtesy of HIPA

Congratulations to all the winners! It was a we'll deserved victory for all of you. This is another feather in the cap for the HIPA team--a job well done indeed. 

As the HIPA 2013 has finished, it is now time to anticipate for the HIPA 2014 with it's theme "Creating the Future". So,fellow photographers....time to get those thinking caps on! :)

To view the complete gallery of the winning photos, please visit HIPA's Facebook account HERE.

I you had missed the event here is the official video of the ceremony: HIPA Award Ceremony 2013

Thanks for your time... 

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Me,

                                                                

 The Hot Shoe Anthologist

 

Just after a few hours of publishing my previous post about "Hink." anticipated flash gun, Lighting Rumors (LR) were the first to divulged one of the feature. The obscure product would cater an light emitting diode (LED) modelling light that would became first of it's kind. 

The thrill is almost over and 4 days from now a grand winner of the Hamdan International Photography Award (HIPA) is going to be declared and will take home a stash of $120,000. Even though only on their second year, HIPA has already propelled their rank as the leading international photography awards topping others for the biggest prize in a photo competition.