Photo Competition
Photo Competition Winner - August '11 by Jackie Downey
- Judged by
- Paul Goldstien
- Trip code
- AYX
- Countries Visited
- Kenya
- Winner
- August 2011
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 when the fawn leaps in one last despairing dive to evade the predator. This is not an easy moment, neither target is particularly large nor is the light great but it is sharp and captures the balletic ability of an animal only a few days old. A superb wildlife shot. I’ll be honest here, I was there and got nothing like this!
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…
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'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…
