A FATHER has followed in his eight-year-old son’s footsteps by winning a prize at their photography club.

Kevin Wright, 45, was chosen as the winner of the Woodford & Wanstead Photographic Society’s annual digital projected image competition on August 1.

Mr Wright’s win comes just four months after his eight-year-old son Luke won the junior prize at the society’s Reg Fowkes competition, which celebrates the legacy of the Woodford-based photographer.

His photo, Red Arrows Flypast, of the Battle of Britain air show wowed judges in April to ensure his place in the society's winners club.

Speaking at the time, Mr Wright’s son Luke said the main inspiration for his love of photography “came from his dad.”

This time around, it was his father’s photo of a martial artist at London’s Traditional Tai Chi Chuan competition in Hackney that beat several others for the coveted prize.

Mr Wright, of Redbridge Lane West, Wanstead, said: “I was hopeful, but really surprised to be chosen as the overall winner because the quality of the whole competition was so high.

“Each of the category winners were great photographs and we have a good number of fine photographers in the club, so to be crowned winner means a great deal to me.”

Competition judge Graham Parry, of the East Anglia Federation of Photographic Societies, said his “job was not easy” but Mr Wright’s composition, lighting and printing of his photo “made it really stand out.”

The Woodford & Wanstead Photographic Society meets every first and third Monday evening of the month at Wanstead House, off George Green.

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