The Road To LRPS

July 24, 2022 at 1:32 pm

When I started in nature photography several years ago, I had one goal in mind: to become a better and better nature photographer. I decided to go the self-taught route, thanks to the information available on the Internet. I participated in a few foreign photography forums, mainly English, and gained knowledge.

Although over the years I have received quite a few compliments on my photographs from some of my forum colleagues, I was looking for a way to have my successful learning acknowledged by a specialized website, or better still, by a specialized institution whose business is to promote quality photography in all genres. So I first sent some images to the Imaging Resource website under their POTD (Photo Of The Day) section. And so I got two POTDs. One for this image:

and one for this one:

These two POTDs boosted my confidence and led me to the RPS, the Royal Photographic Society, the esteemed English institution for the promotion of photography, where I applied for their Licentiate qualification, Natural History genre. To my (minor) surprise, I was successful. Below you can see my presentation panel of 10 images that persuaded the RPS panel to award me the LRPS qualification.