Wow you are in for a visual treat in this post. Today we held the Emerge Award ceremony and we can now share all of the winners.

For the past six months our Emerge challengers have been working hard at creating images for each of the 12 fortnightly challenges and we have been blown away by the standard of work. Their creativity and ability to think outside the box to present images that meet the challenge brief, but also push their work to new levels and surprise us, is inspiring.

So let's stop the waffle and kick things off with the individual challenge winners so you can see for yourself how awesome their work is!

01 Framed

Winner: Juliette Bercovici | Juliette Bercovici

02 Spaced Out

Winner:  Shandess Griffin | Shand and Your Dogs Photography

03 Highs and Lows

Winner: Kristen Murray | Kristen Murray Photography

04 Under Cover

Winner: Lisa Olson | Pets R Family

05 Pantastic

Winner: Gloria Anderson | GoDogPhoto

06 All in the Details

Winner: Lisa Olson | Pets R Family

07 Silhouetto

Winner: Desiree Nickerson | Born 2 Run Photography

08 Slow Motion

Winner: Teran Buckner | Phido Photography

09 Mirror Image

Winner: Shandess Griffin | Shand and Your Dogs Photography

10 Double Trouble

Winner:  Gloria Anderson | GoDogPhoto

11 Bokehlicious

Winner: Lisa Olson | Pets R Family

12 Shake!

Winner: Julie Cork | J Cork Photography

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

For the first time ever we just could not pick a 3rd place, no matter how we assessed each of the portfolios, they couldn't be separated!

In joint 3rd place... Lisa Olson & Ginger Wick

Second place goes to Desiree Nickerson.

And our overall winner of Emerge is... 🥁

Shandess Griffin!

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

Do you want to join us for an Unleashed Challenge?

To find out more head over to the info page.

Each of the three courses are interactive dog photography challenge based education. The courses run for six months, Embark and Emerge include 12 challenges - a new one every two weeks. Plus, only in Empower, a bonus 13th challenge!

Much more than just a challenge, they are 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.