Photo Competition
Photo Competition Winner - January '13 by Tom Bowett
- Judged by
- Paul Goldstein
- Trip code
- AON
- Countries Visited
- Burma
- Winner
- January 2013
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 vibrancy. This is vibrant, massively so. I can almost hear the firecrackers and smell the cordite and gunpowder. The depth of field is deep, the shutter speed not too high and I cannot see any face detail. Good. The merest sniff of a temple in the right hand corner is enough for perspective, especially as 90% of all Burma photos are just temples. This is an exciting photo, an image that has not been arrived at by accident. It is also important, Burma is changing, this photographer has shown us that. Top work Tom!
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…
