5th place in Reception

Sri Lanka groom gets thrown into the air by guests at the reception - Asia wedding photo
New York, United States

Gihan De Silva

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Wedding photographer Gihan De Silva, was awarded 5th place for photo 1841941 in the Reception category for the WPJA's 2016 Q1 Photography Contest.

The WPJA contest judges presented Gihan De Silva, a New York, United States wedding photographer, with this Master Piece Award as recognition for top wedding photojournalism in the industry.

The leading documentary wedding photographers in the world enter their best photos to the Wedding Photojournalist Association's photography competitions. They want their wedding reportage photographs to be evaluated and selected by some of the most notable and respected working picture editors and photojournalists in the news industry (these are not wedding photographers or other WPJA members judging their work). Winning these competitions is a true accomplishment for a wedding photographer.

2016 Q1 Photography Contest Judges

Judges

  • The groom getting tossed in the air has been shot a million times, but this photographer caught it just at the perfect moment and at the perfect angle. The image is clean, without a distracting background, yet complicated in the faces and hands tossing the groom. The groom himself stands apart from the crowd, and so does this image in its composition.

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