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Best book competition

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Is your CEWE PHOTOBOOK amazing?
Our Best Book Competition has been temporarily put on hold - please come back soon to enter our new & improved competition, starting early 2012.
In the meanwhile, take a look below at some of our previous winners for inspiration!

August 2011

1st

First Prize: Samantha Corry
I wanted a quirky little name for my book so I decided to call it 'My Little Book of Musical Experiences.....Good Times!' I have been to many concerts since the age of 14 in 1987 and I have taken hundreds of photos which I am very proud of.

2nd

Second Prize: Matt Naylor
My photobook captures two trips, three years and poles apart. Antarctica in 2008 and the Arctic in 2011. Both trips had a photographic theme, in fact they had the same leader and were on the same boat!

3rd

Third Prize: Jolanda Vlok
I am slowly becoming addicted to creating photobooks. They are such an easy and fun way to showcase a fabulous holiday and a beautiful daughter! This photobook was created to honour a very special occassion: our baby daughter's first holiday with one of her grandparents (visiting all the way from South Africa).

July 2011

1st

First Prize: Laura Salmon
We got married in Mozambique and had to rely on our friends and family to provide the photos. They came up with some fantastic shots which showed the beautiful backdrop to our mixed culture beach and bush wedding. I really enjoyed using Photoworld.

2nd

Second Prize: Steve Sneath
This book is part of a trilogy covering my visual experience of my trek to Everest Base Camp, the people I shared the journey with, and also captures our stop in Kathmandu and on Safari after the trek. The cewe software made it very easy to pull together and great fun to produce.

3rd

Third Prize: Topia Yasmin
This was a long overdue walima album which was created just for our parents which captures some of the lovely shots of both families the day after the main wedding day function. We hope to win so my husband and I can create a unique Walima album using Crewe Photo book as things are so expensive these days.

June 2011

1st

First Prize: Carla Savage
My book details a few of my travels by continent. The experiences have ranged from wildlife including lions hunting, gorillas literally in the mist and watching turtles hatch; cities including many capitals charting the varying architecture around the world; ruins from Machu Picchu, Angkor Watt and Tikal and new activities such as white water rafting.

2nd

Second Prize: Jeff Whitfield
For this photobook I used high posterized images taken on the day to introduce each aspect of the wedding day and added a title to each image rather like chapters in a novel. I like to try something different for every photobook I produce and using cewe software makes this process simple and gratifying.

3rd

Third Prize: Kay Chan
This is Kay. A wild and crazy collection of nearly every moment of my life captured with simply a camera and mobile. Each photo is a memory and this book is a scrapbook of some of the best memories I have. Nothing can compare to what I feel when I look back over the pages, this book holds much more than just images.

May 2011

1st

First Prize: Alan Metheringham
I have chosen to enter this album as it gives me a perfect reminder of my holiday. I really enjoyed producing the book and the various layouts and backgrounds enabled me to show my photos at there best. I also used the gloss finish for the first time and was very impressed.

2nd

Second Prize: Tom Willett
I have spent quite a few holidays in the Western Isles of Scotland in recent years – a very beautiful area - and taken alot of photos and the photobook was the ideal way of displaying them – once mastered the software was easy to use and very pleased with the reproduction quality and speed of delivery.

3rd

Third Prize: Stuart Cummins
It was great fun putting together our photobook to celebrate our wedding. It was the first time we had used the site and we found it really easy to navigate and design to our requirements. It felt like we were re-living our special day as we sifted through countless photos to choose our favourites and design our book to tell the story of our wedding.

April 2011

1st

First Prize: Tom Piper
I have used cewe photo book to produce a rough draft copy of a illustrated book that I am producing. Cewe color was very helpful with answers to a number of questions about layout, final trim and dpi. I have been very pleased with the quality (resolution) of the 24 page A4 book. I wish there was an option for matt paper though.

2nd

Second Prize: Christopher Richards
I wanted to try something different with my first CEWE Photobook and included lots of photos which were incidental to the main event, few of which my friends and family have seen before. On reflection, my title “Ways of Seeing,” was perhaps rather pretentious, but I hope that it may have set the scene for the nature of the images inside.

3rd

Third Prize: James Cooper
Like many others over the years I've enjoyed travelling and taking photography. However I tend to shy away from the traditional landscapes and instead focus on the gritty highlights of urban towns. I've purposefully kept the pages minimal in order to let the images speak from themselves.

March 2011

1st

First Prize: Jane Kempler
We had an amazing holiday to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands in September 2010. We both invested in new digital SLR cameras for the trip as we new it would be pretty special and we wanted to come back with some great pictures.

2nd

Second Prize: Steve Duperouzei
My 82yr young Mum and I went to NZ to see my niece who lives there and met up with and my son for his 21st birthday and my daughter who lives in Australia.

3rd

Third Prize: Caroline Seymour
I wanted to capture the experience of our holiday in Rajasthan. This was my first photobook and I was delighted by how I could manipulate the images in order to create a collage that did justice to each place that we visited. I found I could use tiny parts of a photo for emphasis and stack up similar features for a repetitive effect.

February 2011

1st

First Prize: Robert Walsha
A two-week trip to the beautiful island of Embudu, in the Maldives, June 2010, with a built in A-Z of the stunning fish and sea-life encountered while snorkelling.

2nd

Second Prize: Ann Holmes
Since discovering Cewe Photobooks we have been making a book every year of our travels and events throughout the year. My husband works in different countries so we travel a lot. It is a really great way to record our adventures, instead of just keeping them on a laptop.

3rd

Third Prize: Caroline Seymour
I wanted to capture the experience of our holiday in Rajasthan. This was my first photobook and I was delighted by how I could manipulate the images in order to create a collage that did justice to each place that we visited. I found I could use tiny parts of a photo for emphasis and stack up similar features for a repetitive effect.

January 2011

1st

First Prize: Ann Holmes
Since discovering Cewe Photobooks we have been making a book every year of our travels and events throughout the year. My husband works in different countries so we travel a lot. It is a really great way to record our adventures, instead of just keeping them on a laptop.

2nd

Second Prize: Lucia Crewdson
Last summer over 200 elephants made of fibreglass and painted by renowned artists were placed all round London; round Trafalgar Square, along the South Bank, in Green park and by Big Ben. A map was printed of their whereabouts and my sister and I had a wonderful day trying to find them all and photographing them.

3rd

Third Prize: Chris Richardson
These are some of my favourite photos taken during the past year, most of them in my area, depicting the four seasons.

December 2010

1st

aug 1

First Prize: Sylvie Macle
My 10 days along the famed N7 route, from the capital Antananarivo to Ifaty. I produced this album not just for my benefit, but also to highlight the natural beauty of the place where a staggering 80% of its flora and fauna is endemic.

2nd

aug 2

Second Prize: Ann Wollaston
I have been lucky enough to see a lot of the world over the past 7 years and have travelled on several occasions with a friend and fellow traveller in the last 5. The photographs look brilliant in a photo album but with a photobook it has been possible to add a written record of the memories the photos conjure up.

3rd

aug

Third Prize: John Southcombe
My photobook was created as a tribute to my parents, children and wife for their continued support as I have evolved along the photographic journey from a novice to mediocrity over the last 4 years. The book covers numerous genre's of photography and depicts a journey of learning from which I hope others that read it will take inspiration.

November 2010

1st

aug 1

First Prize: Mike Barnard
This book is of our holiday to the small Caribbean island of Dominica. One of the most picturesque places I've ever been to and apparently rarely photographed I thought a Cewe photobook would be the perfect opportunity to get some of the best images printed to show to everyone and hopefully get them to come out there with us next time!

2nd

aug 2

Second Prize: Natalie Wood
This is my photo book of pictures from a photo shoot where i got to "trash" my wedding dress. It was an amazing day and so much fun to wear my dress again. I have used Cewe a few times now and am always so impressed with the quality of the photo paper and books.

3rd

aug

Third Prize: Graham Howton
This photo book was for Karen's 40th Birthday party. I tried to storybook the night with a mixture of posed portraits and candids, capturing the fun had by all through the night. Much alcohol was consumed and, as you can see, everyone certainly did have fun! Roll on her 50th!

October 2010

1st

aug 1

First Prize: Reg Bowdrey
My photobook was put together as a tribute to my best friend for his 50th birthday. We have known each other since we started school in '64/65' although his garden backed onto my garden since we were both born.

2nd

aug 2

Second Prize: Fabienne Saez-Tomlin
This book gave me the opportunity to prolong a fabulous safari holiday in the Maasai Mara, as I had so much fun creating it using the intuitive CeWe software. I will share it with our family and the friends we met during our Kenyan adventure. I also look forwad to our next holiday to take more travel pictures and make another book!

3rd

aug

Third Prize: Monique Fowlds
The album is about my partner (husband) whom I have known for the past 20 years and who turns 70 years old in December. The album portraits his life from a baby, going through the years, his schooling, sporting and business career to getting married and having a family... what a lovely way to present a person's life.

September 2010

1st

aug 1

First Prize: Claire Ginty
This photobook is a journal of our fantastic honeymoon in New Zealand, Australia and Hong Kong. We were one of the lucky ones during the volcanic ash disruption, and gained an additional 6 days in Hong Kong.

2nd

aug 2

Second Prize: Hayley & Lee Brown
I hope it will inspire other to see the flexibility and potential Cewe books offer, it changes photographs into pieces of art. I hope our friends will love the Wedding album we have prepared for them!

3rd

aug

Third Prize: Lindsey Clark
This is my first venture into photo books and I am so pleased that I chose you. Whilst the choices at every stage are amazing, making it couldn't havebeen easier.

August 2010

1st

aug 1

First Prize: Anthony Hall
I created my book for my girlfriend after our first holiday together in the Dominican Republic. We had such a wonderful time and had some professional photographs taken. The Photobook is a wonderful way to show these off. 

2nd

aug 2

Second Prize: Gordon Murphy
The book is about our last holiday in lovely sunny Kos (and Nisyros) in June this year where we had an absolute cracking time. By the way the book is in German as the two of us were born there and now ended up in Lancashire.

3rd

aug

Third Prize: Masuma Uddin
This photobook tells the story of our beautiful wedding in October 2009. I always wanted to design my own photobook and I found the CEWE software so easy to use!

July 2010

1st

1st

First Prize: Natalie Wood
This is my photo book of pictures from our engagement and wedding. It contains both professional and ones taken on the day by guests. I have done some cewe photobooks already for parents and grandparents and as the quality is fantasitic.

2nd

3rd

Second Prize: Rich Rogers
This photobook chronicles Leg 4 of the expedition from Cape Town in South Africa to Fremantle in Australia - a 5000 mile journey across the South Indian Ocean which took 5 weeks to complete.

3rd

3rd

Third Prize: Vicky Mitchell
This book documents our charity cycle from New Yorks Brooklyn Bridge to San Franciscos Golden Gate Bridge in 2009. It also includes a copy of the blog we kept to keep those informed at home.

June 2010

1st

june

First Prize: Alicja
This is a book containing my amazing backpacking around Cuba.

2nd

june 2nd

Second Prize: Caryn Coyle
I was asked to create a memento for the children in my son’s class at school. This photobook tells the story of a day in the life of the kids in the class. I used some photos given to me by their parents, and some I took while following them around the school for a couple of days!

3rd

june 3rd

Third Prize: Alan Roche
Well it is to basically to show off my work in the last few months, to show people how much i have improved and hopefully continue to improve. The book shows different sections from nature to night photography and landscapes and portraits.

May 2010

1st

may 1st

First Prize: Mark Richardson
These were taken on my recent trip to New Zealand which was brilliant.

2nd

may 2nd

Seccond Prize: Janet Williams
My friend and I had a fabulous cruise through the Mekong Delta, followed by a short stop- over in Bangkok. To get just some idea of how the Vietnamese and Cambodian people live, their pride and resourcefulness after everything their countries have been through was amazing.

3rd

may 3rd

Third Prize: Jo White
This books tells the story of our family holiday last summer from my daughters persepective.

April 2010

1st

1st

First Prize: Joanne Waldie
This Photobook is the first of what will be a series of four covering a six-month break that my husband and I have just taken from work. We spent our first month in Peru: a wonderful country full of colour, culture and spectacular scenery.

2nd

2nd

Seccond Prize: Martin Pert
Our photobook is a record of our time in Thailand in August 2009, our best holiday yet. This was our first experience of making a photobook and the process of picking which images made the top 34 pages, brought back so many good memories.

3rd

3rd

Third Prize: Agnieszka Jurgielewicz
This photo book is a record of our short trip to Spain in November 2009. Yes, November! Apparently that's the best time for holiday. Really! The whole beach was just for us... Although we spent there just five days we've enjoyed every minute!

March 2010

1st

1st

First Prize: Jane Kempler
Our photobook is a record of our holiday to Tanzania. We had a fabulous time and came back with almost 8,000 photos - only the best ones made it into the photobook though. We had some amazing experiences on our trip and got up close to some really fascinating animals.

2nd

2nd

Second Prize: Drew Thompson
This book is a lifetimes work, my wifes grandma to be exact. She approached me with some of her memoirs and asked if I could do something with them. Cewe sprang straight to mind should be fab. A great keepsake for the whole family.

3rd

3rd

Third Prize: David Hall
This is a record of a cruise on the Red Sea as part of my 70th birthday celebrations. It was a wonderful holiday and this book is a superb way to remember it.

February 2010

1st

1st

First Prize: Kerry Whilden
"My book is a collection of photos from 2009 covering our daily life, activities and holidays put together as an annual... I have created several books with Cewe and I'm always impressed by the quality of the books."

2nd

2nd

Second Prize: Tracey Clift
"My son & his girlfriend are on a world travel extravaganza they return in Feb, I wanted to give them some memories. I really like your software, it's easy to use and you can get some great effects. I shall be using it again and again..."

3rd

3rd

Joint Third Prize: Saniel Sakal
"I made this book as a means to showcase some of my photography, I am hopefully transferring universities for my second year and have interviews coming up. The Uni's expect to see a Portfolio of work and I use CEWE photobooks all the time when I do wedding's etc."

January 2010

1st

1st

First Prize: Katrina Kieffer-Wells
"The book represent the body of work designed and build by our company Earth Designs. Formed in 2003, we have built over 100 gardens in the South East, and designed gardens worldwide. Photobook allowed me to present not only our portfolio, but to tell the story of our creative process from concept to completion."

2nd

2nd

Second Prize: Andrew Bell
"I spend a lot of time travelling in the UK to capture the steam locomotive at work through all the seasons of the year. The large square photobook is a great way to keep these images as a record of my days out in 2009."

3rd

3rd

Joint Third Prize: James Pickett
"The photo book has pictures of my daughter on and at the top of some of the world's highest mountains, including Mount Everest."

December 2009

1st

1st

First Prize: Florian Clément
"I created this photobook to keep the lovely memories of our honeymoon spent in Cuba last summer. The book covers our stay in Havana, Trinidad and Varadero and will hopefully give our friends and family a good impression of the wonderful time we had there."

2nd

2nd

Second Prize: Soren Moore
"My photobook order was a Christmas present for my parents. In February of this year they took the whole family to Lapland to experience a real Winter wonderland.... Thank you for bringing such happy memories back to my parents this Christmas."

3rd

3rd

Third Prize: Liz & Jonathan
"This is our wedding album. Hope you like it as much as we do. Just what we wanted! "

November 2009

1st

1st

First Prize: Alan Metheringham
"I have now completed a series of photobooks with cewe through the seasons of 2009 and now have a spring, summer, and my most recent book of Autumn. The excelent tools and backgrounds helped me bring to life the vibrent colours of Autumn, many thanks cewephotoworld."

2nd

2nd

Second Prize: Frances Culshaw
"I designed it to showcase my artwork. It will be a very useful accompaniment to my forthcoming exhibition "I Speak for the Trees". The quality and finish of the photobook are excellent, and I am really pleased with it."

3rd

3rd

Third Prize: Marie Bowen
"I created my photobook for my mum and dad who are retiring at christmas and i wanted to do something really nice. The photobook was like a book of memories over the years with some big highlights such as their 40th wedding anniversary and my sister's wedding last year..."

October 2009

1st

1st

First Prize: Alan Balderson
"This book was created to provide a pictorial journey of our holiday to the south western United States where we got married in Las Vegas with Elvis. Uh-huh. It tells the tale of the route taken and all the parks and sites we visited during the 3 weeks we hit the road..."

2nd

2nd

Second Prize: Willo Williams
"The book is a pictorial history of the prints, ceramics & paintings of my late partner, Paul Derbyshire, with a brief foreword by me and an edited version of his own words...."

3rd

3rd

Third Prize: David Campbell
"This photobook is a wonderful record of our family holiday to Australia. Starting in Sydney with the famous bridge and opera house we progressed north to Brisbane past some of the most wonderful beaches and interesting wildlife..."

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