Photo Competition
Photo Competition Winner - November '10 by Pamela Digby
- Judged by
- Paul Goldstein
- Trip code
- AYQ
- Countries Visited
- Tanzania
- Winner
- November 2010
Some outstanding wildlife images this month (please remember this is not just a wildlife competition) but there was a clear winner. I will candidly admit, I am supremely jealous of this image; it is superb. One action shot is worth a hundred cheesy portraits and this has just about everything. Photographing predators on a kill is easy as one of the parties is inert. Catching the exact moment of impact shows skill, nerve and also graft, as these events do not happen to order. However there are other facets that elevate this image into a higher pantheon. Firstly the light, secondly the splash of the water but critically the whole brutal, savage action is almost neutered by the benign elephant cameo going on top left as the mother gently leads her calf away from the PG show going on below.
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