Photo Competition
Photo Competition Winner - October '09 by Andrew Graham
- Judged by
- Jim Eite
- Trip code
- AIB
- Countries Visited
- Bhutan
- Winner
- October 2009
As most travel photographers switch to digital, although easier to choose sepia, black and white or 'enhanced' colour modes it definitely feels rarer to see a good black and white image. In colour this would be a beautiful portrait, but in black and white it becomes a strong, powerful image of mother and child. The thoughtful parent in traditional dress, the subtle texture of her clothes and the resting infant wrapped up warm on her back, the image brought to life as Andrew throws the background out of focus, boldly zooming in on his subject and carefully focusing with the narrow depth of field. Lastly, for me it's the natural pose and not the staged portrait that makes the viewer comfortable, enjoying the images simplicity.
Previous Winning entries
These are incredibly difficult shots to pull off, yet this has been well conceived and brilliantly executed. It is also a candid representation, someone is clearly recounting a story and all the atten…
I have seen thousands of Indian sunsets, they rarely short-change, this certainly does not. It has the primary ingredients of colour, silhouette, and composition but it is the questionning nature of t…
Andrew’s recent travels have taken him all over the colourful country of Tibet. He sent us a lot of images this month and with a couple of exceptions, they were all very good - a couple outstanding.…
The ancient baobab boulevards are by no means virginal in terms of photography. I’ve seen them at sunrise, sunset, with startling blue skies and with about 40 tourists shooting them.This however is …
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…
