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
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I may get some criticism for this as it is a complete break with the norm, but this is a photo competition not a woolly adventure travel love-in and this is the best shot this month. …
