Weekly Competition #246 - The Impact of Architecture Competition
Competition Details
Closing Date: 01/04/2012
Judge: AxelLutherone of my favorite photo categories is architecture. Special buildings have a special impact to me and I often try to capture this in a way that visualizes the impact (as coldness, style, dimensions, power, warmth etc.). Typical objects for me are modern office/urban buildings, skyscrapers or churches but there are many other kind of buildings, that have a special impact to people. Please share a photo where you tried to express, which impact a building had to you. I will try not to be influenced by the building itself the way you captured it, is key factor for the judging.
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Posted 02/04/2012 - 00:12
Hi thanks for providing such a variety of architecture shots. The range of buildings as well as the range of quality was really wide. To provide an objective as possible (how can art be objective ?? 
) I was using again an evaluation concept based on 4 categories: Quality, Originality, Composition, Visualization of impact.
The task this week was, to show the impact, an object has to you without providing any info in the description, which impact you wanted to visualize, it is hard to gain many points in this category (in general I often would like to see a bit more background information in gallery or composition postings as I love to understand, how you see things and capture them). With some pictures I also had more the feeling to see a picture of a building but not necessarily an architecture shot Building and architecture is not the same thing for me.
Old Building in York by mudge
For me first of all a crop from an old building and I found it hard to imagine, what you wanted to impress with the building (the beauty of old buildings, the decay, the preservation the .?? I also think that the crop is not ideal feels a bit by chance and not necessarily intended. Sharpness and color range are very nice
Quality:4
Originality:3
Composition:2
Visualization of impact:1
Total: 10
Dissused Church by bettyswolloks
Perhaps first the issue: Iso much dont like signatures in pictures especially in competition pictures the picture itself should be your signature everything else is distracting (unless, signatures are below the picture in a frame region). The other issue I have no clue, which impact this architecture has to you. The tonal range of the picture is nice the crop is too extreme for me (a bit more context of the remaining building would be helpful). The perspective composition is also good.
Quality:4
Originality:3
Composition:2.5
Visualization of impact:1
Total: 10.5
Stately by davidstorm
David you really managed to visualize the power of the building but the interesting thing for me is if the special feature of this building was the massive usage of glass I would have expected a more fragile, light, shining image this is an interesting contrast between the actual architecture of the building as well as the importance. The composition is very nice just one thing I would have changed distorting the outside walls so that they get straight. Btw I am impressed, how mch the IR changes the complete light setting it looks more as an illuminated night shot hard to imaginge that you did it at a bright day
Quality: 5
Originality: 4
Composition: 4
Visualization of impact: 4.5
Total: 17.5
Atrium by aliengrove
When I saw the thumbnail Ithought: Wow when I saw the normal size I thought wow when I saw the big size I thought the same. Such a great picture. Yes, you did not mention the impact the scene had to you,but it is so clear in this case. The photo has such a graphical and 3D character. The lack of color range, the perfect composition, the perspective this all creates such a special picture (it also looks somehow like a trachea). I think you created a masterpiece and you show perfectly what the architect tried to achieve pomp and circumstances, glamour, giantism
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Quality: 5
Originality: 5
Composition: 5
Visualization of impact: 5
Total: 20
Other Worlds by johnriley
Nice to see that the range of architecture shots goes beyond standard buildings. I see what you felt in this scenery the loneliness the isolation of ths object. However I think the PP is distracting and I also dont like that much, when the used filters are too obvious (like with the lens flare, which looks very much like the PS lens flare filter). John that you took this picture with a Pentax I believe also without EXIF data
Quality: 3
Originality: 4
Composition: 4
Visualization of impact:3.5
Total: 14.5
Good Color by puma
This is very much my favorite place for such shoots and I also prefer to use HDR in such occasions. The perspective is really good (in such buildings, I often prefer tilted pillars as they show the height even better). I also like the combination of the cold colors of the ceiling and the warm colors of the lower architecture. However I think this picture is to bright it looks a bit too Disney-like to me. These buildings were created in very dark times and they often have this moody dark atmosphere. Adding a bit more black, lowering the overall lightness, and reducing te orange tones a bit would be nicer to me. But this is subjective I can also accept that you like the bright version more
Quality: 3
Originality: 4
Composition: 5
Visualization of impact: 5
Total: 17
Houses of the Holy by Sean282
This is a wonderful picture of this building and I perfectly see the impact you wanted to visualize the special mood of this part of Europe as well as the time it was build. The long-time exposure creates a lot of mystique and the B&W is great. I also has somehow a 3D effect. Little issue: the grainy structure in the castle rock.
Quality: 5
Originality: 5
Composition: 4.5
Visualization of impact: 5
Total: 19,5
Art Deco by Lee55555
I can see what you wanted to impress with the picture at these days, they added so many of these amazing deco elements to buildings (like the famous Chrysler Building in NY which was build at the same time). However I see some photographic issues. A bit more vibrancy would show the nice color range better. The crop is not ideal the lower door is cropped very arbitrary and the side frame is very irregular left side is cut more than the right side. The ceiling is tilted and the vertical lines would work better for me in this picture, when they would be vertical.
Quality: 2.5
Originality: 3
Composition: 2.5
Visualization of impact: 4.5
Total: 12.5
Derwent Dam by AndrewA
Good sharpness and nice dynamic and color range. The perspective really emphasizes the hight. The crop is a bit too hard (lower edge of the tower is missing). I would also have stamped away the contrail. Interesting detail, that the right part of the dam is higher than the left part.
Quality: 4
Originality: 3.5
Composition: 3.5
Visualization of impact: 4
Total: 15
Historic monument by Noelcmn
I remember this event and saw the building often in the news. Clearly an historic moment and I also like very much how they designed the stadium that it looks African. Nicely captured but the way it is captured is not necessarily emphasizing the special character of this building (capturing e.g. a German football arena would work with this very neutral shot as well).
Quality: 4
Originality: 3
Composition: 3
Visualization of impact: 3
Total: 13
Twin towers by Dr.Mhuni
The composition of this shot is great (but this is anyway one of your talents I so often love your compositions). The towers are perfectly arranged, rasing from the lower corners. The reflection of each tower adds so much to the picture as well as the brown rings in contrast to the blue overall color. Great picture of twin towers which are definitely less known than the former NY towers or the Petronas Towers.
Quality: 5
Originality: 4
Composition: 5
Visualization of impact: 5
Total: 19
The De La Warr Pavilion by jaspers45
This hipstamatic-style picture very much visualizes the Warhol-life-style. I like the combination of this building, its composition and the special color range. The whole picture looks very retro and 70-style.
Quality: 4.5
Originality: 4.5
Composition: 4
Visualization of impact: 5
Total: 18
Sol y sombra by perpinya
I love the composition with the dominating vertical structures the contrast of dark foreground and pale background and the oligochrome style. For me a very architectural photo but I feel it difficult to find out what this building means for you what you want to show us. Is it the clinic design, the coldness, the strict architecture or the
Quality: 5
Originality: 5
Composition: 5
Visualization of impact: 3
Total: 18
Sol y sombra by GlynM
Interesting object in this competition I can see what you mean with the complex structure and range of colors. Such brick constructions are very impressive when imagine how they were build. I just dont fully understand, why you chose the title with the phrase decay for me, this looks rather well preserved.
Quality: 4
Originality: 3.5
Composition: 4
Visualization of impact: 3.5
Total: 15
Dome by GaryJohn
I know this building and I agree it is huge and it makes people feel small. The size would be more obvious with a less narrow cut. Color contrast of blue sky and orange building in combination with the white works well for me. The sharpness of the copula is not ideal.
Quality: 3.5
Originality: 3.5
Composition: 3
Visualization of impact: 4.5
Total: 14.5
Old and New by TOZZA27
More a building of a house than an architectural image for me. Not ideal that the branch covers the tip of the roof and the missing base is also not ideal. I also do not fully understand the title. I do not really see the Modern in this picture?
Quality: 3
Originality: 3
Composition: 3
Visualization of impact: 2
Total: 11
Iconic Tower by dannyh
I do not fully get the impact this place has to you and I also do not fully understand why you chose the mirroring. It makes an interesting picture but not necessarily an architectural image.
Quality: 3.5
Originality: 4
Composition: 3
Visualization of impact: 2
Total: 12.5
Canterbury Cathedral by rovingeyeproductions
A nice outside image of a cathedral showing the amazing dimension and craftsmens skills. I also like the fact that no persons distract the image and the vibrant colors. Portrait orientation might have worked better (the foreground is not that important but it would have offered space for the entire width of the church although I assume you wanted to focus on the hight). Again no description at all is not very helpful.
Quality: 4.5
Originality: 4
Composition: 3.5
Visualization of impact: 2
Total: 14
Crowded by Frankie
More a travel snapshot than an architecture photo for me but an interesting scene. Not sure if the topography would have allowed it but a picture directly in front of the line of houses with no angle might have shown the crowded character better (+ I would have cropped a pano-like part of the picture).
Quality: 3.5
Originality: 3.5
Composition: 3
Visualization of impact: 4
Total: 14
WDCH1 by Dodge96
This building needs no signature it is 100% Gehry. First I thought you captured and isolated the Guggenheim in Bilbao but it looked slightly different. Amazing to see this variation of the style in a total different building. The way you captured it (and processed it) is wonderful the whole scenery is modern, cool, stylish. Also nice to read in Wikipedia, that also the acoustic is good in this hal (not every modern concert hall can claim this). I think you show us a great architecture picture
Quality: 5
Originality: 4.5
Composition: 5
Visualization of impact: 5
Total: 19.5
salisbury cathedral by lizardwizard
I like these pictures where an ancient building is seen through a modern building to show the range and development of architecture. The cathedral is a bit to bright for me my recommendation for such inside-out shots HDR
Quality: 3.5
Originality: 4
Composition: 4
Visualization of impact: 4.5
Total: 16
West Front, Wells Cathedral by davidtrout
Perfect composition and smart usage of the human scale (also a bit visualizing how much these buildings turned from a central part of the populations life when they were build, to a very isolated usage nowadays where less and less people visit these churches). The dynamics, sharpness and contrasts are superb the perspective as well (and the crop). I also like the green grass on the bottom, as this grounds the church a bit
Quality: 5
Originality: 4.5
Composition: 5
Visualization of impact: 4.5
Total: 19
Stairway to............ by RobCK21
Bit chaotic composition of lines leaving lots of space for interpretation (also regarding the impact, this building has to you). Regarding the song Stairways to Heaven I would have expected a stairways that goes a bit further than just to the base of a building.
Quality: 4
Originality: 3.5
Composition: 2
Visualization of impact: 2
Total: 11.5
Spider Web by ArsenAl
Hmmmm I think my corrected 8-16mm would have captured a web as well (with the right view point). Fisheyes can make a lot out of architecture objects. Also impressive to see the great low noise of a K5 with 1600 ISO. I like the color contrast and the slightly tilted view point. Not 100% about the architectural impact.
Quality: 5
Originality: 4
Composition: 4
Visualization of impact: 3
Total: 16
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Was great to see all these images and some of them really impressed me. Have to say, when aliengrove uploaded his oicture I thought wow whoever wants to beat this picture must provide an absolutely outstanding photo. There were many really good ones but at the end no one could beat Jons masterpiece.
So here my very subjective score:
first: Atrium by aliengrove
joined second: WDCH1 by Dodge96 and Houses of the Holy by Sean282
HC for Twin towers by Dr.Mhuni and West Front, Wells Cathedral by davidtrout for a great harmonic composition
Jon its your turn
_____________________________________________
Colors are the lack of darkness
You find more of my pictures here: http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/axelluther or on my web page: www.axel-luther.com
) I was using again an evaluation concept based on 4 categories: Quality, Originality, Composition, Visualization of impact.The task this week was, to show the impact, an object has to you without providing any info in the description, which impact you wanted to visualize, it is hard to gain many points in this category (in general I often would like to see a bit more background information in gallery or composition postings as I love to understand, how you see things and capture them). With some pictures I also had more the feeling to see a picture of a building but not necessarily an architecture shot Building and architecture is not the same thing for me.
Old Building in York by mudge
For me first of all a crop from an old building and I found it hard to imagine, what you wanted to impress with the building (the beauty of old buildings, the decay, the preservation the .?? I also think that the crop is not ideal feels a bit by chance and not necessarily intended. Sharpness and color range are very nice
Quality:4
Originality:3
Composition:2
Visualization of impact:1
Total: 10
Dissused Church by bettyswolloks
Perhaps first the issue: Iso much dont like signatures in pictures especially in competition pictures the picture itself should be your signature everything else is distracting (unless, signatures are below the picture in a frame region). The other issue I have no clue, which impact this architecture has to you. The tonal range of the picture is nice the crop is too extreme for me (a bit more context of the remaining building would be helpful). The perspective composition is also good.
Quality:4
Originality:3
Composition:2.5
Visualization of impact:1
Total: 10.5
Stately by davidstorm
David you really managed to visualize the power of the building but the interesting thing for me is if the special feature of this building was the massive usage of glass I would have expected a more fragile, light, shining image this is an interesting contrast between the actual architecture of the building as well as the importance. The composition is very nice just one thing I would have changed distorting the outside walls so that they get straight. Btw I am impressed, how mch the IR changes the complete light setting it looks more as an illuminated night shot hard to imaginge that you did it at a bright day
Quality: 5
Originality: 4
Composition: 4
Visualization of impact: 4.5
Total: 17.5
Atrium by aliengrove
When I saw the thumbnail Ithought: Wow when I saw the normal size I thought wow when I saw the big size I thought the same. Such a great picture. Yes, you did not mention the impact the scene had to you,but it is so clear in this case. The photo has such a graphical and 3D character. The lack of color range, the perfect composition, the perspective this all creates such a special picture (it also looks somehow like a trachea
). I think you created a masterpiece and you show perfectly what the architect tried to achieve pomp and circumstances, glamour, giantism
..Quality: 5
Originality: 5
Composition: 5
Visualization of impact: 5
Total: 20
Other Worlds by johnriley
Nice to see that the range of architecture shots goes beyond standard buildings. I see what you felt in this scenery the loneliness the isolation of ths object. However I think the PP is distracting and I also dont like that much, when the used filters are too obvious (like with the lens flare, which looks very much like the PS lens flare filter). John that you took this picture with a Pentax I believe also without EXIF data
Quality: 3
Originality: 4
Composition: 4
Visualization of impact:3.5
Total: 14.5
Good Color by puma
This is very much my favorite place for such shoots and I also prefer to use HDR in such occasions. The perspective is really good (in such buildings, I often prefer tilted pillars as they show the height even better). I also like the combination of the cold colors of the ceiling and the warm colors of the lower architecture. However I think this picture is to bright it looks a bit too Disney-like to me. These buildings were created in very dark times and they often have this moody dark atmosphere. Adding a bit more black, lowering the overall lightness, and reducing te orange tones a bit would be nicer to me. But this is subjective I can also accept that you like the bright version more
Quality: 3
Originality: 4
Composition: 5
Visualization of impact: 5
Total: 17
Houses of the Holy by Sean282
This is a wonderful picture of this building and I perfectly see the impact you wanted to visualize the special mood of this part of Europe as well as the time it was build. The long-time exposure creates a lot of mystique and the B&W is great. I also has somehow a 3D effect. Little issue: the grainy structure in the castle rock.
Quality: 5
Originality: 5
Composition: 4.5
Visualization of impact: 5
Total: 19,5
Art Deco by Lee55555
I can see what you wanted to impress with the picture at these days, they added so many of these amazing deco elements to buildings (like the famous Chrysler Building in NY which was build at the same time). However I see some photographic issues. A bit more vibrancy would show the nice color range better. The crop is not ideal the lower door is cropped very arbitrary and the side frame is very irregular left side is cut more than the right side. The ceiling is tilted and the vertical lines would work better for me in this picture, when they would be vertical.
Quality: 2.5
Originality: 3
Composition: 2.5
Visualization of impact: 4.5
Total: 12.5
Derwent Dam by AndrewA
Good sharpness and nice dynamic and color range. The perspective really emphasizes the hight. The crop is a bit too hard (lower edge of the tower is missing). I would also have stamped away the contrail. Interesting detail, that the right part of the dam is higher than the left part.
Quality: 4
Originality: 3.5
Composition: 3.5
Visualization of impact: 4
Total: 15
Historic monument by Noelcmn
I remember this event and saw the building often in the news. Clearly an historic moment and I also like very much how they designed the stadium that it looks African. Nicely captured but the way it is captured is not necessarily emphasizing the special character of this building (capturing e.g. a German football arena would work with this very neutral shot as well).
Quality: 4
Originality: 3
Composition: 3
Visualization of impact: 3
Total: 13
Twin towers by Dr.Mhuni
The composition of this shot is great (but this is anyway one of your talents I so often love your compositions). The towers are perfectly arranged, rasing from the lower corners. The reflection of each tower adds so much to the picture as well as the brown rings in contrast to the blue overall color. Great picture of twin towers which are definitely less known than the former NY towers or the Petronas Towers.
Quality: 5
Originality: 4
Composition: 5
Visualization of impact: 5
Total: 19
The De La Warr Pavilion by jaspers45
This hipstamatic-style picture very much visualizes the Warhol-life-style. I like the combination of this building, its composition and the special color range. The whole picture looks very retro and 70-style.
Quality: 4.5
Originality: 4.5
Composition: 4
Visualization of impact: 5
Total: 18
Sol y sombra by perpinya
I love the composition with the dominating vertical structures the contrast of dark foreground and pale background and the oligochrome style. For me a very architectural photo but I feel it difficult to find out what this building means for you what you want to show us. Is it the clinic design, the coldness, the strict architecture or the
Quality: 5
Originality: 5
Composition: 5
Visualization of impact: 3
Total: 18
Sol y sombra by GlynM
Interesting object in this competition I can see what you mean with the complex structure and range of colors. Such brick constructions are very impressive when imagine how they were build. I just dont fully understand, why you chose the title with the phrase decay for me, this looks rather well preserved.
Quality: 4
Originality: 3.5
Composition: 4
Visualization of impact: 3.5
Total: 15
Dome by GaryJohn
I know this building and I agree it is huge and it makes people feel small. The size would be more obvious with a less narrow cut. Color contrast of blue sky and orange building in combination with the white works well for me. The sharpness of the copula is not ideal.
Quality: 3.5
Originality: 3.5
Composition: 3
Visualization of impact: 4.5
Total: 14.5
Old and New by TOZZA27
More a building of a house than an architectural image for me. Not ideal that the branch covers the tip of the roof and the missing base is also not ideal. I also do not fully understand the title. I do not really see the Modern in this picture?
Quality: 3
Originality: 3
Composition: 3
Visualization of impact: 2
Total: 11
Iconic Tower by dannyh
I do not fully get the impact this place has to you and I also do not fully understand why you chose the mirroring. It makes an interesting picture but not necessarily an architectural image.
Quality: 3.5
Originality: 4
Composition: 3
Visualization of impact: 2
Total: 12.5
Canterbury Cathedral by rovingeyeproductions
A nice outside image of a cathedral showing the amazing dimension and craftsmens skills. I also like the fact that no persons distract the image and the vibrant colors. Portrait orientation might have worked better (the foreground is not that important but it would have offered space for the entire width of the church although I assume you wanted to focus on the hight). Again no description at all is not very helpful.
Quality: 4.5
Originality: 4
Composition: 3.5
Visualization of impact: 2
Total: 14
Crowded by Frankie
More a travel snapshot than an architecture photo for me but an interesting scene. Not sure if the topography would have allowed it but a picture directly in front of the line of houses with no angle might have shown the crowded character better (+ I would have cropped a pano-like part of the picture).
Quality: 3.5
Originality: 3.5
Composition: 3
Visualization of impact: 4
Total: 14
WDCH1 by Dodge96
This building needs no signature it is 100% Gehry. First I thought you captured and isolated the Guggenheim in Bilbao but it looked slightly different. Amazing to see this variation of the style in a total different building. The way you captured it (and processed it) is wonderful the whole scenery is modern, cool, stylish. Also nice to read in Wikipedia, that also the acoustic is good in this hal (not every modern concert hall can claim this). I think you show us a great architecture picture
Quality: 5
Originality: 4.5
Composition: 5
Visualization of impact: 5
Total: 19.5
salisbury cathedral by lizardwizard
I like these pictures where an ancient building is seen through a modern building to show the range and development of architecture. The cathedral is a bit to bright for me my recommendation for such inside-out shots HDR
Quality: 3.5
Originality: 4
Composition: 4
Visualization of impact: 4.5
Total: 16
West Front, Wells Cathedral by davidtrout
Perfect composition and smart usage of the human scale (also a bit visualizing how much these buildings turned from a central part of the populations life when they were build, to a very isolated usage nowadays where less and less people visit these churches). The dynamics, sharpness and contrasts are superb the perspective as well (and the crop). I also like the green grass on the bottom, as this grounds the church a bit
Quality: 5
Originality: 4.5
Composition: 5
Visualization of impact: 4.5
Total: 19
Stairway to............ by RobCK21
Bit chaotic composition of lines leaving lots of space for interpretation (also regarding the impact, this building has to you). Regarding the song Stairways to Heaven I would have expected a stairways that goes a bit further than just to the base of a building.
Quality: 4
Originality: 3.5
Composition: 2
Visualization of impact: 2
Total: 11.5
Spider Web by ArsenAl
Hmmmm I think my corrected 8-16mm would have captured a web as well (with the right view point)
. Fisheyes can make a lot out of architecture objects. Also impressive to see the great low noise of a K5 with 1600 ISO. I like the color contrast and the slightly tilted view point. Not 100% about the architectural impact. Quality: 5
Originality: 4
Composition: 4
Visualization of impact: 3
Total: 16
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Was great to see all these images and some of them really impressed me. Have to say, when aliengrove uploaded his oicture I thought wow whoever wants to beat this picture must provide an absolutely outstanding photo. There were many really good ones but at the end no one could beat Jons masterpiece.
So here my very subjective score:
first: Atrium by aliengrove
joined second: WDCH1 by Dodge96 and Houses of the Holy by Sean282
HC for Twin towers by Dr.Mhuni and West Front, Wells Cathedral by davidtrout for a great harmonic composition
Jon its your turn
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Colors are the lack of darkness
You find more of my pictures here: http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/axelluther or on my web page: www.axel-luther.com
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Posted 02/04/2012 - 00:55
Excellent job axel. Good honest well considered piece of judging
A deserved winner. A truely fantastic shot. Well done AG
A deserved winner. A truely fantastic shot. Well done AG
Last Edited by Sean282 on 02/04/2012 - 01:16
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Posted 02/04/2012 - 07:28
Well and promptly judged indeed, Axel! Thanks for the win, and congratulations to the podium places too, which were also the two entries that really caught my eye. Great judging and comments as usual! I have to go into the office now, running a bit late, but I will have thought up a new comp theme by this evening!
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Last Edited by aliengrove on 02/04/2012 - 07:28
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Posted 02/04/2012 - 08:10
promptly Judged And well done to the Judge and well done to Aliengrove, 
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Posted 02/04/2012 - 08:33
First I want to congratulate the winners! As soon as I saw the photo "Atrium" - no doubt I was gone! Excellent, fantastic work!
Axel - about the criticisms of my work .. I think that your 8 - 16 mm does not diagonal 180 mm .. Corrected lenses are smaller angles at the same focal lengths. . In addition, with their help it would be impossible to obtain a curved bend. And perhaps it was a fish - eye effect allowed the paper to be published in two Russian journals, and in Ukrainian to get the title "Photographer of the Year" in Urban photography ..
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Axel - about the criticisms of my work .. I think that your 8 - 16 mm does not diagonal 180 mm .. Corrected lenses are smaller angles at the same focal lengths. . In addition, with their help it would be impossible to obtain a curved bend. And perhaps it was a fish - eye effect allowed the paper to be published in two Russian journals, and in Ukrainian to get the title "Photographer of the Year" in Urban photography ..
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Posted 02/04/2012 - 08:59
Thanks Axel for a very good competition and your expert eye judging it. Congratulations to Aliengrove on a fine win and to the joint seconds, and thanks for my joint HC with Dr Mhuni.
David
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Last Edited by davidtrout on 02/04/2012 - 09:01
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Posted 02/04/2012 - 09:08
Axel - Many thanks for for such an inspired take on the subject of architecture. Thanks also for your detailed comments and well structured judging method. I think it all worked really well.
Congratulations to Jon for a terrific winning entry. When I first saw it I thought "well that's it - game over!".
Congratulations also to everyone else for a fantastic set of diverse images.
Putting "Decay" in the title for my entry was probably a mistake on my part as I agree in the image it does not look too bad. I suspect I was influenced by the general state of this part of the canal, which has been drained for quite a while and depressingly looks largely derelict.
Glyn
Congratulations to Jon for a terrific winning entry. When I first saw it I thought "well that's it - game over!"
.Congratulations also to everyone else for a fantastic set of diverse images.
Putting "Decay" in the title for my entry was probably a mistake on my part as I agree in the image it does not look too bad. I suspect I was influenced by the general state of this part of the canal, which has been drained for quite a while and depressingly looks largely derelict.
Glyn
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Posted 02/04/2012 - 09:23
Like most other commentators I saw Jonathan's entry and knew I was way out-classed. However, I always find your comments really welcome so put something in for the benefit of your advice, I agree its more a travel shot than architecture but it was the closest I had. Congratulations to all the winners.
K5 + 18-135mm kit lens
K5 + 18-135mm kit lens
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Posted 02/04/2012 - 11:50
Thanks Axel - appreciate the comments - the "new" was the inclusion of the pendant lights on the branch outside a 200 year old building.Not my best ever shot but always fun to enter.
Well done Jon - stunning shot..............the rest were pretty amazing too !
regards
Tony
K20D,*istD ( now a dedicated M42 digital ),K100D,MZ5N,P50,ME Super,Spotmatic 1000,Spotmatic,ESII,ES,H2.18-55 II,18-55,75-300 FAJ,35-80 FA,80-200 F,28-105 FA,Sigma 24-70 AF Aspherical,Sigma 28-300 Hyperzoom , Praotor II 500 M42,Centon 500mm mirror,and a few Pentax M42 Taks,super-Taks,smc Taks,A and M lenses.Benbo trekker,7dayshop monopod and a Lowepro rucksack.
I am now on Flickr which is nice !
Well done Jon - stunning shot..............the rest were pretty amazing too !
regards
Tony
K20D,*istD ( now a dedicated M42 digital ),K100D,MZ5N,P50,ME Super,Spotmatic 1000,Spotmatic,ESII,ES,H2.18-55 II,18-55,75-300 FAJ,35-80 FA,80-200 F,28-105 FA,Sigma 24-70 AF Aspherical,Sigma 28-300 Hyperzoom , Praotor II 500 M42,Centon 500mm mirror,and a few Pentax M42 Taks,super-Taks,smc Taks,A and M lenses.Benbo trekker,7dayshop monopod and a Lowepro rucksack.
I am now on Flickr which is nice !
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Posted 02/04/2012 - 13:45
Thank's for your words. This is an excellent selection of arquitecture imatges and photographers
see you the next!
see you the next!
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Posted 02/04/2012 - 18:22
Thanks Axel, your judging comments are 'top of the class', I particularly like the way you have scored each entry in various categories.
Well done to Jon for the winning image - truly excellent!
Best wishes
David
My Website http://imagesbydavidstorm.foliopic.com
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Some cameras, some lenses, some bits 'n' bobs
Well done to Jon for the winning image - truly excellent!
Best wishes
David
My Website http://imagesbydavidstorm.foliopic.com
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Some cameras, some lenses, some bits 'n' bobs
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Posted 02/04/2012 - 22:00
Thanks Axel I'm glad you liked my shot.
Congratulations to Aliengrove and the other podiums and HCs.
Very thorough judging- good to see you point out the good and the bad.
Congratulations to Aliengrove and the other podiums and HCs.
Very thorough judging- good to see you point out the good and the bad.
