At the end of April 2009 Shirley was awarded the Credit of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britian. Shirley had entered 10 prints and needed to score over 200 points to atain the award.
The panel of 6 national judges awared all of Shirley's pictures 234 marks and scored two of her prints 25 marks. Shirley can now use the letters CPAGB after her name.
One of Shirleys highest scoring prints was The Chase is On.