CJPOTY round 3 winners

The theme for the third round of the Digital camera Jabber Photographer of the Year (CJPOTY) competitors was ‘Spring’ and as soon as once more there have been some fabulous photos submitted. After a prolonged judging session, we’re delighted to announce that the next photos shall be added to our shortlist to be judged by our illustrious panel of judges on the finish of the year.

Considered one of these ten shortlisted photos has additionally been chosen because the round winner with the photographer being awarded a voucher from MPB price £500 – scroll down to seek out out who.

CJPOTY March 2023 Spring shortlisted photos

Rebecca Hedges

Crocus flowers are a welcome sight each spring. We liked Rebecca’s low-level shot that features snow-topped mountains within the background. It encapsulates that feeling that spring can lapse again into winter at any second.

Pawel Zygmunt

Who doesn’t love a puffin? Pawel’s picture stands out from the gang due to the motion, with the puffin constructing momentum to take-off, whereas the ocean pinks make the season clear. Pawel’s focusing is ideal whereas his selection of shutter velocity has ensured the puffin is frozen mid-step.

Sarah Williams

The parakeets dwelling within the south east of England don’t at all times get the most effective press, however they’re undeniably engaging. The intense inexperienced of the fowl contrasts properly with the pink of the spring blossom, which additionally matches the beak fairly properly. It’s a stunning cheery picture with spot-on focusing.

Marie Jones

Marie has captured one of many less-celebrated sights of spring and she or he’s completed it beautifully. The water is completely nonetheless and there’s a pleasant reflection of the fairly proud-looking frog keeping track of the spawn.

Mai-Britt Larsen

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Mai-Britt did properly to identify these tiny flowers and we love how she has captured two in a tender, dreamy panorama. The flowers look delicate and weak. There’s additionally a pleasant sense of the early-morning chill of spring.

Jane O’Connor

Jane’s stunning picture reminds us of a Japanese portray, we’d like to see it printed and hanging on a wall. We had been drawn in by the darkish branches within the foreground towards the pink blossom of the bushes within the distance happening the hillside.

Eric Browett

Boxing hares are a uncommon sight as of late and our guess is that Eric needed to be very affected person to seize this fabulous shot. His timing is excellent and each animals look very dynamic.

Anne-Marie Smith

That is one other picture that should have taken a number of endurance. Anne-Marie’s composition is superb with each the crocus flower and the bee coming in alongside it completely sharp. Judging by the dimensions of the pollen collections on the bee’s legs, it’s been very busy.

Angi Wallace

Angi is the present Digital camera Jabber Photographer of the Year and this picture is typical of her incredible pictures. The background is splendidly blurred and in line with the themes, that are completely sharp and fantastically positioned within the body.

Ana Peiró Muñoz

Anemones make fabulous topics and Ana has delivered an outstanding picture right here. We love how the super-sharp anthers on the centre of the flower are peeping out from between the petals. The background can be properly blurred and tones properly with the flower.

CJPOTY March 2023 winner: Jane O’Connor

Congratulations Jane, a voucher to the worth of £500 from MPB is heading your means!

Jane’s picture joins the opposite 9 photos which were chosen this month and goes onto our shortlist for judging by our panel of VIP judges on the finish of the year for the general prize.

CJPOTY April: Motion

The theme for the fourth round of the 2023/24 Digital camera Jabber Photographer of the Year (CJPOTY) competitors is ‘Motion’. It’s as much as you whether or not that motion is frozen or blurred. You can even use a impartial density filter to allow a protracted publicity to blur the motion of water or clouds – or possibly intentional camera motion is your factor? As long as there’s motion of some type in your picture, it’s eligible for this round.

This round of our month-to-month competitors is open for submissions till 23:59 BST (00:59 CET and 15:59 PST) on thirtieth April 2023.

To submit your entry comply with the hyperlink to cjpoty or click on on the CJPOTY button on the high of any of our web site pages. You possibly can submit as much as three entries for £2.00 plus fee processing prices (£0.26). Photographs ought to be Jpegs at the very least 1920 pixels alongside their longest facet however no bigger than 2MB.

Digital camera Jabber Photographer of the Year prizes

On the finish of the month, the Digital camera Jabber workforce will decide one profitable picture and 9 runners up from the April entries. The photographer of the profitable picture will obtain a voucher from MPB.com to the worth of £500 which will be spent on something from an enormous vary of package from the World’s largest platform for used photographic gear.

All 10 of the chosen photos will go into our shortlist for the year.

We’ll do that every month in 2023 in order that by the tip of the year, there shall be 120 shortlisted photos. These will then go earlier than our incredible panel of judges who will resolve the first, 2nd and Third-placed photos.

The photographer of the first-placed picture general, as determined by the panel of judges , will obtain a voucher to the worth of £1000 from MPB.com in addition to a trophy and the title ‘Digital camera Jabber Photographer of the Year 2023‘. The photographers who come second and third will obtain vouchers price £500 and £250 respectively.

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