Congratulations to Liliya Gorlanova who wins the ISPWP Photographer of the Quarter award!

Here are the Top 20 overall winners from the ISPWP Winter 2009 Wedding Photography Contest. Click on the button to view the gallery.

Liliya Gorlanova – ISPWP Photographer of the Quarter Winter 2009
Liliya Gorlanova Photography
Moscow, Russia

2nd Place:

Michal Warda, WhiteSmoke Studio – Warsaw, Poland

3rd Place:

Fer Juaristi, ferjuaristi photographer – Monterrey, Mexico

4th Place:

Christina Craft, FunkyTown Photography – Vancouver, Canada

5th Place:

Mark Ridout, Ridout Photography – Toronto, Canada

6th Place:

Jose Luis Guardia, Xpression International Wedding and Event – Granada, Spain

7th Place:

Sergio, Sergio Photographer – Tucson, Arizona

8th Place:

Emin Kuliyev, Emin Wedding Photography – New York, NY

9th Place:

Mark Romine, Mark Romine Photography – Bloomington, Illinois

10th Place:

Jan Garcia, Jan Garcia Photography – Orange County, California

11th Place:

Benjamin Young III, Benjamin Young III Photography – Davao, Philippines

12th Place:

Jeremy Lucero, Lucero Photography – Fullerton, California

13th Place:

Tatiana Garanina, Tatiana Garanina Photography – Moscow, Russia

14th Place:

Abby Rosenbaum, Abby Rose Photo – Ann Arbor, Michigan

15th Place:

David Wittig, David Wittig Photography – Chicago, Illinois

16th Place:

F.C. Wong, F.C. Wong Photography – San Francisco, California

17th Place:

Cliff Brunk, Cliff Brunk Photography – San Francisco, California

18th Place:

Marcin Rusinowski, 5czwartych | 5fourths Documentary Photojournalism – Warsaw, Poland

19th Place:

Vagelis Giotopoulos, Giotopoulos – Preveza, Greece

20th Place:

Britney Gardner, Turn Loose the Art – Huntington Beach, California

Getting Ready

Family Love

Framing the Subject

Ceremony

The Decisive Moment

Movement and Motion

First Dance

Bride Portrait

All About Light

Reception

Bride and Groom Portrait

Wedding Details

Emotional Impact

Bridal Party Portrait

The Wedding Dress

Humor

Engagement Portrait

Pure Art

Kids Will Be Kids

Venue or Location

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Milos Horvat is an internationally renowned and awarded wedding photographer. Back in 2004, the introduction of his wedding photography to the Slovenia market caused a revolution and today he is one of the leading European wedding photographers. He has judged several Slovenian photography contests and is permanently working with the best Slovenian magazines as an editorial photographer and article writer. He is known as a master of ambiance, with a unique and highly distinctive photography style.

I discovered my love for photography at an early age. I was always playing with my parents cameras and broke many of them. At four I fought with my mom to take the picture, not to be in it. I have spent years honing my craft working as a photographer in many high profile studios in the Philadelphia Tri-State area. My experience includes wedding photography, portraiture, advertising, and commercial photography. I love weddings. I feel honored to be asked to capture the important moments that will become the family albums our children treasure.

Kim’s love for photography started in high school when she was one of those geeks on the yearbook staff who always had a camera in hand. Her career in photography started after the birth of her first son in 1993. Shooting rolls and rolls of film of obviously the world’s most miraculous baby led her to a friendship with a photo lab manager where she was hired, thus saving her from a career that includes the phrase “Do you want fries with that?” She learned darkroom techniques and the technical aspect of photo printing. The lab also had a small portrait studio that employed a photographer and one day the photographer did not show up, and the rest, as they say, is history. Kim also photographs seniors, babies and families in her studio in Milwaukee Wisconsin, but her true love lies in photographing weddings. When she is not photographing weddings you can find her at home in her jammies with her two dogs and two kids.

Alexandre Borges is a wedding photographer based in São Paulo, Brazil. He has been shooting weddings since 2007 and today he is one of the top wedding photographers in his country. He was the second Brazilian photographer accepted as a ISPWP member and also belongs to the WPJA. Ale Borges won first place in the Ceremony category of the Spring 2009 ISPWP contest. He has placed in every contest since. He likes fresh and elegant images that shows emotion, fun and happiness.

Marcel Siegle worked as a commercial photographer for many years before embracing wedding photography in 2004. After shooting only a handful of weddings, he realized how fulfilling and fun weddings can be. Soon thereafter his wife, Meher, also a photographer, joined him full time, making their dream of working together come true. A native of Germany, Marcel lives with his wife, two children, 5 chickens, and two rabbits in the Sonoma Wine country. The duo maintains a photo studio in San Francisco and they continue to shoot commercially for Silicon Valley and Fortune 500 companies. Marcel also creates fine art and stock photography centered mostly around his other passion, fly-fishing. Some if his favorite photographers are Weegee, Irving Pen and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Coralee is the rockin’ redhead wedding photojournalist behind Red Photo Co. She’s won awards for her vivid and always colourful work, which breaks the rules of what people think wedding photography should be. Her approach to life and weddings is the same – rule #1: always be yourself…which documents the distinctive nature of each couple in true (and always eccentric) Coralee fashion. When not shooting, she enjoys sleeping in, going for walks with her Boston Terrier Charlie, tackling the never ending tasks of home ownership (and does not apologize for having a pink front door) and kicking ass at board games. She lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, quite possibly one of the coldest places on earth and generally does not leave her house from December-March, which gives her plenty of time to watch independent movies and crazy Britcoms (that nobody else likes).