This is interesting

this is the 2010 winner for the wedding section of the MASTER
PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION
here is a comment : As a Fellow and judge of nearly 15 years, i
was both disappointed and disgusted to see the winning image from
M.O.Y.
There is no way that i would have allowed this to happen had i
been on the Panel, or better still Chairman of the panel. Never
ever!
This image neither portrays professional photography in a good
light, no...r does it move the industry forward as a
whole. As judges we have a duty to steer the industry in the
correct direction and hopefully generate more business indirectly
from it as a result.
I doubt this image will cause a que at our
doors.
I have resigned from the M.P.A. and foregone my
Fellowship!

Maybe the judges on that panel liked
‘whimsy’….and did not look at technique etc