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.
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…
