"Reflections" 2022 THEME WINNERS
From endless materials and objects around us, glass water, rivers or drifting tides reflections have long been a wonderful part of many magnificent images in photography. What really seems to set them apart always seems to be a step away from the traditional rules as though them seem to take on a personal introspective perspective while being framed up.
The Art Of Drowning Slowly BY Jane Lazenby
Our First Place Winner was submitted by
Jane Lazenby from Barnsley, United Kingdom
Jane Lazenby from Barnsley, United Kingdom
Pre Raphaelites in a weightless underwater slow motion theatre.
After spending many years as a professional portrait painter, I swapped my paintbrush for pixels,
partnering my love for Renaissance and Pre Raphaelite art with my thalassophobia, creating pieces that dream of death in deep water, the fear of sinking downwards and never finding the bottom, of that airless gasp that jolts you awake...
These images are taken through glass at one of the UK's only underwater studios.
Visit more of Jane's amazing work online at:
www.ejlazenbyphotography.co.uk
After spending many years as a professional portrait painter, I swapped my paintbrush for pixels,
partnering my love for Renaissance and Pre Raphaelite art with my thalassophobia, creating pieces that dream of death in deep water, the fear of sinking downwards and never finding the bottom, of that airless gasp that jolts you awake...
These images are taken through glass at one of the UK's only underwater studios.
Visit more of Jane's amazing work online at:
www.ejlazenbyphotography.co.uk
Dance BY Patrizia Burra
Our Second Place Winner was submitted by
Patrizia Burra from Udine, Italy
I am a painter and photographer. Painting gives a lot of energy, but it doesn't allows you to catch the moment. This is one of the main factor that lead me to the conclusion that I could not be a painter only. My goal, as photographer, is to translate my more wild, passionate and restless vision into an image.
"With photography we try to reproduce the world. But the world is much more interesting when it becomes a work of art".
I think that photography and the images we create, are the realities transformed into dreams. Our life needs imagination, emotions, an inner impulse that leads us to create. I work every day and many hours a day. This is my way of venting, a road that may be open to everything. And it is in that way that I feel free to create. Here wonderful things can happen. Here, in this fantasy world, my creatures come to life by participating in my dreams.
Visit more of Patrizia's amazing work online at:
www.patriziaburra.com
Patrizia Burra from Udine, Italy
I am a painter and photographer. Painting gives a lot of energy, but it doesn't allows you to catch the moment. This is one of the main factor that lead me to the conclusion that I could not be a painter only. My goal, as photographer, is to translate my more wild, passionate and restless vision into an image.
"With photography we try to reproduce the world. But the world is much more interesting when it becomes a work of art".
I think that photography and the images we create, are the realities transformed into dreams. Our life needs imagination, emotions, an inner impulse that leads us to create. I work every day and many hours a day. This is my way of venting, a road that may be open to everything. And it is in that way that I feel free to create. Here wonderful things can happen. Here, in this fantasy world, my creatures come to life by participating in my dreams.
Visit more of Patrizia's amazing work online at:
www.patriziaburra.com
Jumping spider and prey by Ajar Setiadi
Our Third Place Winner was submitted by
Ajar Setiadi from Bogor, Indonesia
Ajar Setiadi from Bogor, Indonesia
Photography is my hobby, my genre is animal and macro but other also I capture. my instagram account is ajarsetiadi.
Crocodiles Eyes by Shuchuan Liu
Our Honorable Mention Winner was submitted by
Shuchuan Liu from Toyoko, Japan
From China now based in Tokyo. I am an amateur photographer and mainly shoot Architecture and Cityscape photography .
Visit more of Shuchuan's amazing work online at:
https://www.instagram.com/chuanzai945/
Shuchuan Liu from Toyoko, Japan
From China now based in Tokyo. I am an amateur photographer and mainly shoot Architecture and Cityscape photography .
Visit more of Shuchuan's amazing work online at:
https://www.instagram.com/chuanzai945/
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!
