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
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 w…
Landscape photography is very hard to promote above the ‘chocolate box’ category. Not in this case. The composition is immaculate, the choice of portrait is compelling and vital and the colours sp…
Pot of GoldOh my, what a photograph. I saw this early in the selection process and feared nothing else would quite match up. I was right. This is sublime. Arrows of rain, a perfect rainbow (few are im…
Perhaps I am biased, well, with tigers of course I am but this is a superb shot. To get a tiger near water is good but to catch the exact moment it walks adjacent to this lake, its far paw inches from…
Star trails near Telouet -This is a technically superb shot. The exposure has to be about two hours, the direction due south and all the focus done manually. The lighting is also right on the money. M…
