Wow! I’m so excited, I was very fortunate this week and achieved my Fellowship at the SWPP convention. It means so much to me and to be one of the youngest in the Country just blows my mind. I’d like to thanks everybody on the judging panel and everybody who has helped during my photography career up until now. Thanks to all the support from my clients to, you all make it so worthwhile.
I am living the dream and love the lifestyle photography has helped me have.
Below are the images and also the words that accompanied my panel of twenty successful images. More information about the Fellowship can be found here.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy the images.
Richard P Walton FSWPP.
Here I am shortly after going up on stage to receive my Fellowship along side other successful Fellow Roman Melnyk and Damian McGillicuddy who chaired my Panel whilst it was being judged.
This panel of portraits represents what I feel has been my transition from photographer to artist.
After ten years of practicing photography I have realised that photography comes from within.
There is no digital camera or piece of technology that can compete with our minds and our imaginations. For me discovering this has been a revelation and helped in creating my own style which is hopefully reflected here.
I like to think that I have linked photography up to my brain, my photographs are simply projections of images that started as an idea in my mind.
I try to influence myself by events that happen in my own life. I believe that if each and every photographer created images from their own mind as an artist instead of just doing what is expected of them as a photographer the industry would be a lot more interesting as a whole.
My intention as an image maker is to stop people in their tracks and make them think, photography has become so disposable in this digital age I feel it takes something different to not only interest my peers and clients but also myself.
Photography has opened my eyes to the world around me and opened my mind to accept all of the possibilities that are out there. It’s a beautiful way to express yourself and really helps develop your life.
I have been getting more and more involved in the SWPP over the last couple of years, presenting seminars and giving members days, I really like to share my ideas and hopefully teach people to learn to find the artist within themselves rather than thinking it’s all about the kit and copying the latest trends.
Becoming a Fellow would help keep me focused on my ambitions and also help me to help others discover the artist within themselves.
This is only the beginning…
This years SWPP convention in London is set to be the biggest yet, I’m so excited to have been asked to present two seminars and also to be on the judging panel for the annual print competition.
A quick update following my 
