Photo Competition
Photo Competition Winner - September '11 by Maria Koidu
- Judged by
- Jim Eite
- Trip code
- AZM
- Countries Visited
- Madagascar
- Winner
- September 2011
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 population. Maria captures this perfectly in this striking portrait of a young boy – the composition and focus is perfect, surrounded by his friends (and their hair), you can’t help by share the moment with him and Maria. It’s good to break up the wildlife and landscape winners!
Previous Winning entries
There are areas of this that are a little 'hot' (pretentious digital term for over-exposed), but I can live with that. There is no idea of scale - I can certainly live with that, I don't know where it…
Christine, a clearly an accomplished photographer, sent in a gallery of emotive, brilliantly captured candid images and portraits from her time in Ethiopia. In picking the best one, I chose the photog…
Sometimes black and white is used to disguise mediocrity, not here. This is a light-hearted moment which has been caught with sensitivity by the photographer. The background is wonderful, the grainine…
Each year when judging a particularly big photo competition I have to trawl through countless festival shots. I frequently find them intrusive and uninspiring, it is possible to be colourful yet lack …
This photograph has everything: great contrast, audacious slow shutter speed and a hint of mystery – outstanding. It was taken on one of Paul Goldstein’s special photographic departures, but I’l…
