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WINNERS GALLERY Dec 2017

"Silhouettes " 2017 Theme Winners

Silhouettes can be both subtle and dramatic. They will always have an impact on the mood, composition and overall flow of our work.  From the sublime to the bold they have also long been a critical part of many of the worlds finest images!

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Showtime BY Bence Mate

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Our First Place Winner was submitted by 
Bence Mate  from Pusztaszer, Hungary​
Bence is a wildlife photographer, born in Hungary.  In 2010 he won the prestigious BBC Wildlife Photography of the Year award in London. He is one of the most successful photographers in the 53-year-old history of the competition, being the only contestant winning the first prize in both the young and adult categories. 

In 2005 he experimented with the one-way glass photography technique, making fundamental changes in hide photography practice. This technique has been widely used all over the world, and most hides are equipped with such glasses. 

Since 2008 he has been designing wildlife photography hides in different parts of the world (Hungary, Costa Rica, Brazil, Norway, South-Africa and Transylvania, Romania). His enterprise operating in Hungary welcomes photographers with the most exclusive hides in the world.  

Some of his Books are: The Invisible Wildlife Photographer (English, Hungarian), The Handbook of Bird Photography (Markus Varesvuo, Jari Peltomäki, Bence Máté; English, German, Finnish, French)   

​Visit more of Bence's amazing  ​work online at:
www.bencemate.com
www.bencemateshides.com

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A pigeon collecting nesting material from rooftop by Pratik Pradhan

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 Our Second Place Winner was submitted by 
Pratik Pradhan ​ from Pradhan, India
Pratik is a  nature and wildlife photographer based in Mumbai, India and has won more than 20 National and International awards.  He has also have been exhibited and published worldwide.​
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Visit more of Pratik's amazing  ​work online at:
https://www.facebook.com/pratikpradhanphotographer

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Breathing BY BENCE MATE

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Our Third Place Winner was also submitted by 
Bence Mate  from Pusztaszer, Hungary​

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Stokksnes sunset BY ​Sandi Bertoncelj​​​ ​

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Our Honorable Mention Winner was submitted by 
Sandi Bertoncelj​​​  from Kranj, Slovenia
I'm a adventure and landscape photographer based in Kranj, Slovenia. I try to cover as much ground as possible on foot, skis and bikes. It is through this kinetic mode that I find my images, or they find me.

Visit more of 
Sandi's amazing  ​work online at:
https://1x.com/member/berto

Theme Shortlist

Below are the amazing  images that shortlisted into the top tier of this themes competition.  A  big congratulations to all the talented photographers that participated! 

Cliff LaPlant - Horse Sculpture Sunrise
Tarun Chhabra - Shepherd & Herd
Livinus Bleyen - Saguaro Cowboy
Grace Ho -The Catch
Aneesh Kotwal - outline
Eric Lee - Cubano
Bence Mate - White Fang
Mateusz Nowak - A man and a city
Brett Davies - The Kite Kid
Carlotta Gambato -The traveller
Josip Miskovic - Dark blue
Cliff Fawcett - Our Sanctuary
Dale Joyce - Deer Isle Bridge
Dan Allen - Fire Sunset
Dan Cook - Forte
Elizabeth Strong - Lovers
Eva Olgiati - Temporary Structure
Grace Ho - Serene Morning
Aneesh Kotwal - Going home
Hayden Williams - Awake at Dusk
Ian Gilmour - Two Horses
Ignacio Santana - Tempus Fugit
Balaji Sivaramakrishnan - Bottled Love
Barima Owusu-Nyantekyi - Take The Sun With You
Iman Tehranian - Dreams Without a future
Inmaculada González - Shadows of branches
Jordi Bertran - Montjuïc, silhouettes and reflections
Nakul Sharma - Last walk
Aneesh Kotwal - Common Hoopoe against setting sun
Juan Manuel Domínguez Terol - LA LANZADA
Judith Kuhn - shadows of carnival
Bence Mate - Royal Portrait
Chiara Gerevasi
Julia Cumes - African Silhouettes
Yuto Hirasawa- Climbers
Christos Markou - Reflections
Nakul Sharma - Thar sunset
Nakul Sarma - Auroras
Karthik Ramamoorthy - Lioness
Piedad Bartolome - Fly
Pratik Pradhan - Weaver ant with a caterpillar kill
Karim Shokair - Morning Grace
Karthik Ramamoorthy - Vulture
LUIS MARIA BARRIO-FISHERMAN
Marianna Armata - S plash-Park
Marilyn Canning -The Wave
Mateusz Nowak - Greeting of the sun
Stephane CHERY (L. Stery) - La Defense
Michael Kirk - Liberty
Vindya kumar - Giraffe & Ox-peckers
Pablo Borrego - Kite runner
Patrice Picard - Oh!
Vindya kumar - New Day
Pedro Moreno Luna - Sunset in Love
Ramiro Torrents - Geomagnetic Storm
Robert Sheer - Graveyard Spirits
Rose Serrato - Gotham City
Stephane CHERY (Steve Rych) - La porteuse d'algues
Stephen Mimms - Reflective Moment
Suciu Ioan Paul - Sunset boulevard in Bucharest
Vindya kumar - Topi`s on the run
Suzan Mandla - Shelter
Tanusree Chatterjee - Childhood Wonders
Alex Rako - Divine Phenomenon
Alfonso de Cruz - Sedob
Ana Isabel Rodriguez Touceiro - Inherited memory
Anders Nilsson - The fourlegged creature
Anders Nilsson - The fourlegged creature
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