NYIP Student Successes

Many NYIP members have won prestigious awards in contests and photo fairs or have had their work exhibited in galleries. Other NYIP members are building careers shooting weddings, press events, corporate and commercial assignments, or have received professional recognition and publication of their photos. Here are some recent NYIP success stories:

 

Barry W. Szymanski, Wisconsin

Congratulations to NYIP Graduate Barry Szymanski on the publication of his photo book "A Congregationalist’s Journey: Photographs of Sacred and Secular England" Barry, who is a lawyer and an ordained minister, photographed contemporary and ancient sites in England for his book. Learn more about it on his website - www.photosbybarrywszymanski.com.

Michael R. Cox, North Carolina

After  Michael graduated from the NYIP Complete Course in Professional Photography, he was offered a job in teaching 11th grade students photography at a local private school in Charlotte, NC. Michael says he "really enjoys seeing the students improve their skills and experiences in photography. I have planned to take my class to our newspaper company so they can see how photojournalism works and how photos are processed for printing."

Kraig Hooke, Arizona

Congratulations also goes to Kraig Hooke who had photos chosen twice as Photo of the Day on the website Capture My Arizona.

Camelia Saltos, New Jersey

Camelia's ethereal photograph "Water Reflection" was presented at the SOHO Gallery for Digital Art in NYC from March 19 to March 22 as part of the " 1197 PEOPLE'S CHOICE TOP 50" Contest for Mobile Photography Awards!

Joe Motohashi, Japan

Kudos to Joe Motohashi whose photograph of a horse was published in the February 2013 issue of Ladies Home Journal and also appeared on their website. You can see more of Joe's work here.

Rafique Washake, New York

Rafique has been very busy with his photography career. He's a photographer for a company called Endocrine Technology. The New York Daily News featured his images of a car accident on the newspaper's website - photographs he took after using his NYIP PhotoWorld Press Pass.  one of Rafique's photographs was used in a calendar for a company in Bangladesh. And, since Rafique's often asked to take photographs for birthdays, anniversaries, sweet sixteen, seasonal and housewarming parties, he's planning on opening his own photo business later this year. Way to go Rafique!

Janice Mezzacappa, New Jersey

Janice Mezzacappa recently won Second Place in the Elements of Design contest run by BetterPhoto. Janice's winning photo, Building Staircase, was one of over 10,000 images selected for the contest. Janice, who graduated from our Complete Course in Professional Photography says "My goals and dreams are coming true and I wanted to thank you wholeheartedly for all your hard work and mine too! I couldn't have done it without the wonderful resources and program I finished from NYIP!!!"

Stefan Neagu, Romania

Congratulations to Stefan Neagu who just had his first solo exhibition featuring his interpretation of various art sites in the town of Onesti, Romania.  Stefan used multiple exposures,collage and zoom-out techniques in his photographs of sculptures, monuments and mosaics made between 1960-1970, and which have been forgotten and left into oblivion. Stefan says his project was a success and soon all those sites will be reconditioned. Check out this exhibit online and on Stefan's blog.

 

 

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NYIP Student Successes

Many NYIP members have won prestigious awards in contests and photo fairs or have had their work exhibited in galleries. Other NYIP members are building careers shooting weddings, press events, corporate and commercial assignments, or have received professional recognition and publication of their photos. Here are some recent NYIP success stories:

 

 Sandy Tyler, New York

Congratulations to Sandy who just published a children's book called "Herkimer's Big Day." Sandy says that the "images submitted to me by my illustrator weredone freehand and the colors were dull. I was able to enhance all of the images through my experience as a beginner using Photoshop. I am only half way through NYIP's Digital Photography Course and I have already gained so much. Thank you NYIP." If you are interested in purchasing "Herkimer's Big Day", it's available on Amazon.

 

Antoinette Addison, California
Congratulations to Antoinette whose photo "Pure Love" won first prize in the Wild Wings competition run by the Wildling Art Museum. Antoinette took the photo of the two King penguins on the Sub-Antarctic Island of South Georgia. It will be on display at the museum as part of an exhibit on birds. Antoinette says she "could not take a decent photo for love nor money until I started your course -- it is nothing short of a miracle!! Thank you NYIP!"

Scott P. Baker, Ohio
Scott's photo of a controlled Fire Department burn of an abandoned house in Northwood, Ohio was published in the local weekly newspaper, The Press. Scott says that the main photographer for the paper is an NYIP graduate. Congratulations, Scott!

Marcio Silva,Massachusetts

Marcio has had terrific success selling his photographs to various micro stock photo agencies including iStockphoto, Shutterstock, Dreamstime, Fotolia, and Photospin. He has over 2000 images, mostly travel, nature and macro photos, placed with these stock agencies. In fact he's made so much money selling stock images that he's been able to purchase two new cameras and over a dozen lenses with money from his sales! Marcio recently started working with a wedding studio in Lowe, Massachusetts as well.

Nora Devane, North Dakota

 Nora recently participated in a art show in Chicago and was thrilled to report that she sold a print of her photo, "Rays of Hope."

Ray and Linda Whiting, Oregon

Ray and Linda are both students in the NYIP Professional Course and have had photographs and articles published in the local weekly newspaper, the Douglas County News. But having that success took quite a bit of perserverence according to Ray. "I was looking through the NYIP photo assignments and saw that I needed a newsworthy picture, and my son was leading the Cub Scouts on their annual pine wood derby. So I decided to see if he would let me cover it.  After I got done I called one of the local papers and was turned down because the pictures looked posed (some were the awards and final group) but after moping a bit I decided to try another and they also wanted me to write an 4-5 hundred word article for it so I did. The next day after turning in the article the editor called and wanted us to do an assignment at the senior center in town about a wood carvers annual show. So we did it and the 500 word article. Both were on the front page of the paper.We did not get paid for it but it was a lot of fun and seeing our stuff in the paper was a great rush."

 

Robin Thompson, Colorado

Robin's beautiful photo of birch trees framing autumn color won First Place and the People's Choice award in the Parachute, Colorado "Anything Goes" Art Show. Robin says the awards "came as a shock to me because I had entered for fun, but was pleasantly surprised by the win and even more excited to win the People's Choice award since that meant that the general public enjoyed my photograph. Thank you NYIP for knowledge necessary to produce this winning image!"

 

Peter Bednarz, Virginia
Peter won second place in an online photo contest for his photo of waterdroplets on a watch. He says he's glad he took the NYIP course since his confidence has improved so much that he's hoping to start making money this summer photographing family reunions. Congrats and Good Luck!

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NYIP Student Successes

Many NYIP members have won prestigious awards in contests and photo fairs or have had their work exhibited in galleries. Other NYIP members are building careers shooting weddings, press events, corporate and commercial assignments, or have received professional recognition and publication of their photos. Here are some recent NYIP success stories:

 

Chris Humphrey, Oklahoma

When Chris took the NYIP Complete Course in Professional Photography fifteen years ago, he did so because he was "newly married and didn't have the time for a traditional photography school and NYIP was the perfect solution." After graduating, Chris opened his wedding photography business in Tulsa. He's been a successful wedding photographer for thirteen years and has been voted "the Best of the Best" by the readers of Oklahoma Magazine for seven straight years. Congratulations!

 

 

Vidhyaa Chandramohan, United Arab Emirates

Vidhyaa has only been taking photos for eight months, but she's already had some great success. Recently, GulfNews, an UAE newspaper printed her photo of two camels kissing which she took at the Al Dhafra Festival (the world's most expensive camel beauty show). Another of her photos was selected as one of the ten best of the week by readers of the newspaper.

 

 

Janie L. Ferguson, New York

Janie has been very busy since we last mentioned her photo successes in the NYIP Blog. She had a photo published in Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Celebrate Urban Birds 2012 Calendar. She also had two photos of bald eagles published in the Corning Leader newspaper and another photo of an eagle published in Life in the Finger Lakes Magazine.

 

Gordon Helms

Congratulations also goes to Gordon, a recent Complete Course graduate, who took a photo of a sunrise from his front yard and it was published on the USA Today weather page recently.

 

Melissa Olson, Colorado

When Melissa photographed her dog Winston for an NYIP photo project, little did she know that the photo of Winston carrying the local newspaper would be chosen for the cover of her town's yearly calendar. Way to go Winston and Melissa!

 

Dee Harris, Connecticut

Dee, who has built a successful photography business in Danbury, CT since graduating NYIP recently did some photos for Waterbury Hospital who used one of her photos on a billboard on Interstate 84. Dee specializes in professional marketing videos, corporate head shots, commercial photography, event photography, baby & child portraits, pet & family portraits, glamor portraits, senior portraits, engagement portraits, weddings and even "love story" videos. You can see her work on her websites - www.danburyphotographer.com and www.dharrisphotography.com.

 

Shruthi Venkatasubramanian, New York

National Geographic published one of Shruthi's photos called "Carousel" in the December issue of the magazine on the Your Shot page. They also used a photo she took in Bali for an article on the country on the National Geographic Traveller website. Shruthi's also had great success writing travel articles (illustrated with her photos, of course) several of which have been published by the Hindu Metropolis, a leading national daily in India. One of her photographs was in a competition called The Portraits of India and was chosen to be in an exhibition in Chennai, India and published in a coffee table book.

 

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