Malaysia Wedding & Portrait Photographer | Miri | Sarawak | Kota Kinabalu | Sabah |

The mail came on Monday this week and in it were two black WPPI Accolade of Excellence ribbon sent straight from Las Vegas for me! I didn’t expect to receive it actually. Having no experience at all at receiving awards for photography, this would be my first humble achievement which I am surely gonna work hard for better improvement next year. Normally, prints that is submitted for competition won’t be returned. But as a professional body of professional photographers, the photos that were submitted will either be trashed and destroyed, or sent back to the owner. I got my prints a few weeks earlier in middle March and they arrived back to me in a condition just as I first packed it for submission. I hear reviews that the prints could be damaged but I am satisfied that it didn’t happen in my case. the WPPI competition staff really did a good job. The prints were sent back using the same box as I used to send it to them. I didn’t know that! hahaha. The box I used were all pieces of polystyrene (self made) in the inside and covered up with an ugly “milo” box. I had a lot of sticky taping throughout the box to protect it and was sent using the fastest service available by DHL courier service. I admit that it was costly to send my prints to the states. But I bet the result was worth it. I’m sure it will be more worthy next year with all my effort poured to all my clients this year. I will work hard to get the best out of their wedding and atleast get myself better placing in the excellency of international photography competition. Bellow are some of the joys I wish to share with you. Award of excellence ribbon. I just am not sure where to place them yet. In my bathroom? oh no no no!This is the identification card placed on the prints. I am quite proud to represent Miri, Sarawak (perhaps the only wedding and portrait photographer from Miri) to participate in the WPPI international print competition. As a native photographers of Borneo Island, this trophy is for us!This is the ribbon which was sticked on the prints marking that the photo has achieved the level of excellence in that particular competition category. I regret not being able to join the grand meeting, but I pray that I will be able to next year!A truly Borneo award of excellence receiving print. I am particularly proud that this photo was being displayed in front of international and top professionals in the wedding and portrait industry. At least as a Sabah born native who is currently living in Miri, Sarawak, I can say that we are now being recognized by the world (well, not exactly, but at least this is one of our international appearance. Hopefully more and more local talented photographers will have the confidence and courage to participate in such competition. Together let us show the world that we are not just a small tribal islanders on the map of the world but a culture rich with its own sense of artist-ism.This is the second photo that garnered excellency in the engagement category. I am happy that my works as a wedding photographer and also an engagement photographer got itself some recognition. Again, I am proud to showcase the little town of Miri, Sarawak and Malaysia as a whole for this grand competition. If you would like to participate in such competition representing Sabah and Sarawak, then I would higly recommend you to use the professional printing service from my trusted provider here. You can view the grand winners in the competition here. If you enjoyed viewing this post, hope you don’t mind clicking the facebook like button bellow this post and share it with your friends. I really appreciate your time coming over and viewing my humble photographs.