Photo Competition
Photo Competition Winner - March '11 by Susan Tanser
- Judged by
- Paul Goldstein
- Trip code
- AIY
- Countries Visited
- Sri Lanka
- Winner
- March 2011
Sometimes I have to admit to bias and this was taken on a recent Sri Lanka safari I was lucky enough to lead; however having spent hours with all of the entries this month, it is a clear winner. Green Bee-eaters are photogenic subjects. Fiercely territorial, they flit from twig to branch and offer some decent opportunities. But awards are not given just for being photogenic, however coruscating they may be, they are earned by originality and degree of difficulty. This is a fantastic moment - a meal on wings where a partner transfers a titbit to its mate. Sharp, colourful with a complimenting background, this is a superb wildlife photograph, one I missed comprehensively and one I am appropriately green over.
Previous Winning entries
Think you have seen every Varanasi shot worth taking, think again. This is a delight. Too many photos in this part of India are grabbed, the results having large ethical question marks hovering over t…
'Black, White and I’m All Over This' Are zebras hard to photograph – no. Are Burchell’s zebras endangered – no. Is this a worthy winner - massively. This is superbly executed, brilliantly crop…
'You hum it I’ll take it.' Wow, this is one top bird. Delay on the wings, sensational background, this photographer entered a few this month, all were good, all were different, but the neon-like li…
Midnight sun and some photographic midnight oil. Light: sensational, composition: superb (breaks the rules as the book says ‘portrait’ ). Do I wish I had taken it? That’s a given. Do I wish I wa…
“It is always easy to criticise and if I was nit-picking I would say the top is cut off a little but this dazzling shot speaks of graft and sweat: critical characteristics of any good wilderness sho…
