Photo Competition
Photo Competition Winner - August '10 by Carol Barker
- Judged by
- Paul Goldstein
- Trip code
- PNS
- Countries Visited
- Norway
- Winner
- August 2010
Unsurprisingly after two staggeringly successful Spitsbergen Expeditions we have had a barrage of bear images. We have created an online gallery of the runners up and picking a winner was virtually impossible, but there has to be one, so congratulations to Carol Barker for 'In his/her master's steps he trod': I was guiding on both of these expeditions but got nothing like this; beautiful diagonal lines sweep down the slope, composition is perfect with plenty of space in front of mother's nose and very nice light. But it is the stereo steps that provide the alchemy with both front left paws in perfect harmony. Bears on ice or snow are hard currency for any photographer or wilderness fan, literally hundreds of gigabytes of images were shot on these days, few got anywhere near this one, well done Carol.
Previous Winning entries
Madagascar featured strongly in this month’s entries, but it wasn’t the striking scenery or endemic lemurs that caught the eye, it was the infectious smile and warmth of the local Malagasy populat…
Jackals punch way above their weight. Gazelle and impala fawns form an integral part of their diet but take some catching as their parents are often hugely territorial. Jackie has caught the moment w…
Landscape photography is very hard to promote above the ‘chocolate box’ category. Not in this case. The composition is immaculate, the choice of portrait is compelling and vital and the colours sp…
Pot of GoldOh my, what a photograph. I saw this early in the selection process and feared nothing else would quite match up. I was right. This is sublime. Arrows of rain, a perfect rainbow (few are im…
Perhaps I am biased, well, with tigers of course I am but this is a superb shot. To get a tiger near water is good but to catch the exact moment it walks adjacent to this lake, its far paw inches from…
