I was mostly traveling from September-11 to October-10, so time to catch up on contest results.

In no particular order I’m starting with the Artist Gallery Awards “Portraits” gallery.

A new photo of Perrin Marie from our May 2026 sessions graces the list of honorable mentions.

This is quite a departure for me (color) and for her (hair!). But this photo captures her playful nature, slightly hidden behind the smile and behind the scarf that half-veils her left eye.

You can see the gallery here as long as it remains posted.

Is it the awards for the best photos?

Is is the best of the all the photo awards that are given out?

The world may never know.

But I know this: I entered six photos and all six received recognition!
That’s right, someone looked at them and said “Yep, I recognize those photos.”

Four of them received honorable mentions.

The other two I have listed on my MYQ-ART.com page blog because they are MYQ Art.

You can see all the winners by navigating THIS page.

I assume it was a new contest site starting up, but I’d received an invite with one free entry for Academy Photo Awards for nature photography. I entered my Cape Buffalo from September 2024’s safari and received an honorable mention in the “wildlife” category.

You can see all the winners here as long as the gallery is posted.

This past week (May 2026) the online Wild Heart Gallery unfurled their online (did I mention it’s online?) show “Wings” (the 5th annual of such).

One of my bird photos from my 2024 Africa trip is included in said show. I’m not sure what kind of bird it is (my grandfather could have figured it out, but he passed peacefully 9 years ago so I guess I’ll never find out) but it was from Tanzania’s Ngorogoro Crater.

EDIT: I’m told it’s a gray-crowned crane (T.Y. Sue : ) )

You can see all the winged winners here.

This week the online Accent Gallery released the winners of their “Black & White” show and I’m pleased-ish that my two entries were finalists. I’d have been more pleased if they won, but c’est la vie (speaking of accents).

You can see the real winners and the rest of the finalists here.

Sometimes you make photos that aren’t perfect…

Sometimes it’s all you can manage to get the subjects to stay still…

Sometimes you can’t get the Photoshopping quite perfect…

And yet…it’ll be the most important photo to make that year.

Kudos to Jack, Charlie, and Ollie who mostly behaved and sat while I tried to get Rocky and Shadow to cooperate. Yes, these are composites, but not as many layers as you’d think thanks to those three.

Today the Phi International Photo Awards released their alphas, betas, and gammas…well, their choices for their winners anyway.

I’m pleased to announce that LA Sunset was awarded Third Place in the architecture subcategory Cityscapes.

“Dreamtime” also took various awards, and you can see that on the www.myq-art.com blog.

A year ago as if this writing we were wrapping up day 2 of 2 of shooting for The Android, an idea I conceived that may be the project that took the most work in a short period of time (vs a long project like “Dreamtime” which has been ongoing for years). It involved making a shot list, organizing people to help, buying and assembling cheap furniture, and generally going a little crazy all right before I went on a 2 week trip to Hawaii.

I actually finish the edits months ago but kept forgetting to post it, and the anniversary of its shooting seemed like an ideal time to get on it.

So, without further ado…please study The Android

Quoi?

The end of December seems a silly time to experience the end of Summer…unless you’re “down under” I guess (that’s Australia to you), so fair play?

Anyway, the online Lioncourt Gallery unveiled their show about a month ago (I’ve been in India so just now catching up on posting things).

Two of my submitted images were accepted and you can see them and the rest of the gallery here.

Stay cool!

Not likely, but people are animals too, especially children, those little…

ANYway…the Wild Heart Gallery let out not only the dogs but all the other animals in their 4th Annual Animal Portrait show (online). They selected a best of show, an overall runner up, two specialty awards, honorable mentions, finalists, and “selected.” My cape buffalo and his bird friend received one of the honorable mentions. It’s always especially nice to get recognition for a genre in which I spend little time.

You can see the entire show here.