Vancouver BC
by Cantique

Comment:
This was the best photo for this challenge, and should therefore have won, IMO. Eminently saleable, which is one of the points. Informative, well executed, thoroughly competent. Unfortunately for you, the voters seem to require something more spectacular :-)

Yorkshire, United Kingdom
by p_johns

Comment:
Congratulations Philip - I wondered where it was.

Worship, High In The Rockies
by dacrazyrn

Comment:
Congratulations Tracy - a shoock to realise that this is your first ribbon.

Go With the Wind
by Imagineer

Comment:
Delighted for you John. How about getting another one, and then winning the master's challenge having not even been able to enter when it started? So who's the best photographer with no ribbons now?

RGB Smoke
by EddyG

Comment:
Like the idea - and the definition in the smoke, a difficult capture well achieved. The actual patterning of the smoke itself is a touch chaotic, I think i'd have found a simpler composition more appealling.

Wahatoya
by vtruan

Comment:
Wonderfully serene light - I just really really wish, especially forr this challenge, that you'd done something about the noise in this shot. it just doesn't match the kind of shot it is, nor the scene, nor the mood of it. cleaned up, it would be spectacular. 6

Garden of the Gods
by smellyfish1002

Comment:
I find the light a touch harsh here - seems very high contrast, very stark. But it's a suitable scene, certainly. Iwas going to say i thought there was too much sky, but I guess I can see the point of that movement to deep blue.

Loch Arklet
by geewhy

Comment:
No it isn't original - it's done by carefully selecting and blurring the background, but it does give the most bizarre effect, doesn't it? A guy called Tom Merilion does this kind of thing for real, using a 5x4 format film camera altered to take 35mm film - thus exacerbating the depth of field.

It's a top effect, and beautifully served here Gordon.

PS. Oh, and let me know if I'm wrong, and I'll apologise profusely. But you can't do this with a 602Z, i know that :-)

Broken Rings
by zeuszen

Comment:
Oh hell this I love - it's like they've escaped, those scars of age. The replication of their pattern in the sand speaks of both the temporary and the permanent (we note that fossilised tree-rings have been used to determine environmental variations in millenia past - they are truly part of the permanent record), and yet the marks in the sand, we know, will not be there tomorrow. The light, editing of light, use of light, is wonderful.

surfers paradise
by whiteroom

Comment:
Or surfer's prison? Can't imagine it in a guide really. Don't find enough detail around those uprights to be interesting, and they seem over-sharpened, nor in the rocks at their feet.