Congratulations to all our winners, all the challengers who received highly commended portfolios, and to those who completed all 12 challenges too! 🎉

Today we wrapped up the last six months of Embark, part of our Unleashed Challenge series of courses with the awards ceremony, live on Zoom.

This is where we announced all 12 of the individual challenge winners, and the overall 3rd, 2nd and 1st place winners for the Embark course.

What an inspiring group of creatives we had participating in Embark, if you've been keeping your eyes on the top 10 blog posts, you will no doubt have loved the images as much as we did.

So, without further ado, let's take a look at the winners' portfolios.

01 Colouriffic

Winner: Carol Mudra | Apawture Studios

02 Get Down 

Winner: Kaori Stewart | Kaori Stewart Photography 

03 Composition 101

Winner: Rachel McCready | Furtographer

04 Dogscapes 

Winner: Claire Penno | Flagstaff Photography

05 Up Ups

Winner: Nicola Stewart | Dog-Eared Photography

06 Soul Searcher 

Winner: Samantha Brown | Samantha Brown Photography

07 City Slicker 

Winner: Anthea Proudfoot | Malone Photography Australia

08 Front Runner 

Winner: Melissa Mattingly 

09 Say What 

Winner: Nelly (Sara) Steedman 

10 Glow-Up 

Winner: Jackie Searies | Photos By Jackie.S

11 Splash!

Winner:  Kaori Stewart | Kaori Stewart Photography

12 Party Time

Winner: Polona Železnikar

Now it's time for the big winners, selected for their full set of 12 challenge images.

Third place goes to Rachel McCready.

Second place goes to Polona Železnikar.

And our overall winner of Embark is... 🥁

Kaori Stewart! 

WOW, what beautiful work. Congratulations to all our winners. 

Do you want to join us for Embark?

To find out more head over to this page. Enrolment for 2025 is open now through to November 20, 2024.

The Unleashed Challenges are interactive dog photography challenge based education. The courses run for six months, Embark is the first in the series and includes 12 challenges - a new one every two weeks.

Much more than just a challenge, Embark is an invaluable educational resource that will help you build up a go-to list of shots to help create variety in your work. Designed for anyone to be able to complete whether you just want to photograph your own dog or you are a professional pet photographer.