We are absolutely thrilled to announce the winners of the Photographers Keeping It Real Winter Awards!

The winners of our top 3 prizes PLUS Light Blue Award via amazing awards sponsors Pixellu, QT ALBUMS & Light Blue will be announced soon, in the meantime check out the prizes below:

1st place: Hollie & Patrick Mateer
Pixellu All Apps Bundle (12 months licence)
+ £350 credit for any QT Albums product (worth over £700!)

2nd place: Dan Morris
Pixellu Galleries Pro (12 months licence)
+ Pixellu Smartslides Pro (12 months licence)
+ £200 credit for any QT Albums product (worth approx £400)

3rd place: Martin Hecht
Pixellu Galleries Unlimited (12 months licence)
+ £100 credit for any QT Albums product (worth approx £300)

Light Blue prize: Ray Sawyer
12 months Light Blue software licence

+2 additional Light Blue prizes: Chris Denner & Matteo Lomonte
6 months Light Blue software licence

TOTAL PRIZES WORTH OVER £1700 = More prizes than any other Documentary wedding photography awards!!!


The best wedding photographers are keeping it real!

Our memberships just got EVEN BETTER – now starting at just £75 for a full year!!!

Click HERE for more information on how to become a member + receive a listing on Brides Keeping it Real – THE hottest new wedding blog around!


Andy Tyler


Andy Tyler


Ashley davenport (miki Studios)


Ashley davenport (miki Studios)


Ashley davenport (miki Studios)


Ashley davenport (miki Studios)


Chris Denner


Chris Denner


Dan Morris


Dan Morris


Dan Morris


Diego & Liza Moura


Diego & Liza Moura


Hollie & Patrick mateer


Hollie & Patrick mateer


Hollie & Patrick mateer


Hollie & Patrick mateer


Hollie & Patrick mateer


Linda Bouritius


Linda Bouritius


Marnix de Stigter


Martin Hecht


Martin Hecht


Matteo Lomonte


Matteo Lomonte


Matteo Lomonte


Matteo Lomonte


Ray Sawyer


Ray Sawyer


Sina Frantzen


Stacey Oliver


Tobias Löhr


Tom Beynon


The following images were chosen as winners via our members vote – yes that’s right we give our members a say in who wins!!!

Andy Turner


Diego & Liza Moura


Dominic Pennick


Hollie & Patrick mateer


Linda Bouritius


Matt Godman (M&G Wedding Photography)


NADINE LOTZE


Petra Bravenboer


Sanne De Block


Tobias Löhr


The Photographers Keeping it Real – Wedding Photographer of the Year is… Hollie & Patrick Mateer!!!!  Congratulations to our winners, and everyone who took part and helped make our awards such an amazing collection of inspirational imagery!

Everything resets to zero for the next round, who will win, could it be you?  Click HERE to join us and see if you can be our next Wedding Photographer of the year.


We were honestly blown away by the quality of entries, they were spectacular! A huge THANK YOU as ever to our entire community for submitting your entries. We love you all.

High fives to this round’s judging panel of Janina BrocklesbyPhil Salisbury and Gloria Ruth (all previous winners) who had the incredibly tough job of picking the winning images from the hundreds of very talented wedding photographers we have here at PKIR.

Please don’t be too disheartened if your photo wasn’t selected for an award this time, we always have fresh judges with each round of awards, so if you’re proud of your photos please do enter them again.

The best wedding photographers are keeping it real!

Click HERE for more information on how to enter our awards AND receive a listing on Brides Keeping it Real!