When the folks at the Wedding Photojournalist Association noticed how much the wedding photography market was slowing due to COVID, they created the True Love Awards for photographs taken in years past. They write, “While we eagerly await the right conditions to reopen our regular wedding photography contests, we are committed to giving WPJA members something to tide them over, namely a new contest celebrating l’amour.”

Only photographs from the current year are eligible for the regular documentary and artistic categories. But, the number of photographs each photographer had to choose from for 2020 had dropped significantly, so it seemed natural to allow photographers to pour through photographs from previous years to submit to this newly formed contest.

The call for entries reads like this, “We want images illustrating true love and emotion that were shot from your heart. The outpouring of love that you captured can be between two people or even among a group of family and friends expressing their mutual affection, admiration, and devotion.”

It’s always good to be given a challenge that asks you to look back at your work.

Here are a couple of TLC winners from the True Love Contest in 2021.