Saturday 6th February 2021 saw the annual awards for the Guild of Photographers take place – not in the fancy Crewe Hall as we would normally be, but on line, in our finest top halves, in Zoom ‘tables’ of our own making. So sat here in North Tyneside, diet coke and New Zealand treats in hand, I was ready to watch it all unfold.
Whilst a shame to not be at Crewe, all together, with all the glitter and sparkle, I for one was really grateful we got to have an award ceremony at all! It seems the competition attracted 16, 024 entries over the year!
The pandemic has seen a huge amount of the photography industry not operating. We’ve all seen what has happened to the wedding industry, and newborns suffered the same. And whilst we were never classed as an essential service, we are time critical, that newborn is only newborn for a few short weeks. When in fact things have never been safer in my view – with Mum’s isolating from 38 weeks, and then getting home to no visitors who tend to be carrying all the normal cold bugs. It’s the most germ free we have ever been!