Photo Competition
Photo Competition Winner - August '12 by Ian Brodie
- Judged by
- Paul Goldstein
- Trip code
- PNU
- Countries Visited
- Greenland
- Winner
- August 2012
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 was on board? Yes, I can almost ‘hear’ the silence. One heck of a wilderness photo. Maybe even a brochure shot? One thing: you clipped the wing of the bird on the far right… Pedantic? Yes.
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