CJPOTY round 6 winners

The theme for the sixth round of the Digital camera Jabber Photographer of the Year (CJPOTY) competitors was ‘Wildlife’. As soon as once more, the vary and high quality of the photographs was very spectacular. It made deciding on our prime ten images very laborious, and we might simply have included many extra! Nevertheless, the deliberation is over and we’re delighted to announce that the next photos will likely 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 value £500 – scroll down to search out out who.

CJPOTY June 2023 ‘Wildlife’ shortlisted photos

Sara Jazbar

Sara tells us that each Could bee-eaters come to nest in a reservoir at a couple of 1 hour drive from her dwelling. She says, ‘it’s a real spectacle to see a whole lot of those vibrant birds collectively. Searching, bickering, and mating, they’re vibrant not solely in facet however in persona too. When I’ve event to go, I keep there for hours observing them, typically even forgetting to take photos. They’re really superb creatures!’ Fortunately, Sara did bear in mind to make use of her Nikon D500 and Sigma 150-600mm to seize some photos on this event!

Stephanie Chadwick

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This puffin needed to face excessive winds, heavy rain and the fixed assault of black-backed gulls to ship a beak stuffed with sand eels to its offspring. Stephanie needed to endure a lot of that too to seize this excellent picture together with her Sony RX10 IV. Like Stephanie, we love the look of quiet fortitude on the fowl’s face because it succeeds in its activity. The water droplets on its feathers additionally make the circumstances obvious.

Molly Hollman

Molly used her Sigma 105mm macro lens on her Sony A7 III to {photograph} this purple soldier beetle on the prime of a fern, and we predict she’s achieved a superb job. The main target is strictly the place it must be, and there’s simply sufficient subject depth in order that the beetle’s prime half is sharp, however the background is a gorgeous blur of inexperienced.

Helen Belief

Helen captured this purple kite circling above her outdated condominium together with her Canon EOS 5D Mark III and Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Modern. She says, ‘They’re so lovely and majestic, it’s scary to assume that they had been almost extinct, but I used to be in a position to observe them each day’.

We love the element in Helen’s picture and the fowl’s dynamic diagonal throughout the sq. body.

Jane Gross

Whereas the feminine leopard’s physique in Jane’s picture seems pretty relaxed, its eyes have an depth. Jane tells us that it was on the lookout for her close by cub and had a kill up in a tree. Jane captured this excellent picture utilizing her Nikon D750 and Nikon 80-400mm f4.5-5.6 lens.

Ellen Bogenschutz

We noticed many photos of birds and animals catching and consuming fish, so it was good to see Ellen’s picture of a salmon leaping upriver. Ellen should’ve had a number of endurance to seize this picture, and her timing and composition are good. We love how the fish matches the color of the rocks round it.

Carmen Drake

Carmen says, ‘This is without doubt one of the nicest wildlife encounters I’ve skilled – a inexperienced woodpecker and the chick within the nest, in Bushy Park, London. Bushy Park is an incredible place for wildlife, and I’m fortunate to be near it and go to usually.’

It’s a wonderful picture with nice earthy tones, enticing bokeh within the background and excellent eye contact between the 2 topics. The younger fowl’s message is obvious to all!

Carmen captured this excellent picture with the Canon EOS R6 and Canon RF 100‑500mm f/4.5‑7.1L IS USM lens.

Barbara Taskó

That is a picture that many photographers aspire to seize, and Barbara has delivered it fantastically. The kingfisher’s wings are on the backside of their down stroke, so the colorful feathers are on show. Droplets are additionally nonetheless falling from the fowl, and the splash round its exit level from the water is obvious. Properly achieved, Barabara.

Elizabeth Hammond

Elizabeth says, ‘This little wren was gathering moss to line its nest in a fallen tree in Bushy Park. Wren’s have been a little bit of a nemesis for me. Regardless of one hanging out in my backyard all final year, I didn’t handle an honest shot. It simply saved flitting off as I received my sights on it. So it actually was an absolute deal with to spend time with this cute fowl and eventually get an honest shot.’

Wrens are tiny, they usually transfer shortly, however Elizabeth’s dedication paid off with this excellent picture captured utilizing her Canon EOS R7 and Canon EF 100-400mm 4.5-5.6 L IS lens.

Alison Tetley

As Alison explains, the expression on the leopard’s face tells a story, ‘this leopard had crept nearer and nearer to the grazing zebra herd, however on the final minute, he was noticed. He turned dejectedly in the direction of us and walked slowly away.’ Alison’s composition is superb. We notably like that how the zebra are out of focus, however there’s sufficient element to see that they’re watching the large cat’s retreat.

Alison captured this picture utilizing her Fujifilm X-T3 and Fujifilm Fujinon XF 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 R LM WR OIS lens.

CJPOTY June 2023 winner: Carmen Drake

Congratulations, Carmen, a voucher value £500 from MPB is heading your manner!

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

CJPOTY July: Summer season

The theme for the seventh round of the 2023/24 Digital camera Jabber Photographer of the Year (CJPOTY) competitors is ‘Summer season’. Though it’s beautiful to get out within the sunshine, the tough gentle could make images difficult. However, summer season holidays, the agricultural idle and blue skies maintain loads of attraction for photographers. For this round, we’d wish to see photos of no matter summer season means to you, they are often captured wherever and at any time.

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

To submit your entry, comply with the hyperlink to cjpoty or click on on the CJPOTY button on the prime 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). Pictures must be Jpegs at the least 1920 pixels alongside their longest aspect however no bigger than 2MB.

Digital camera Jabber Photographer of the Year prizes

On the finish of the month, the Digital camera Jabber crew will decide one profitable picture and 9 runners-up from the July 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 greatest 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 top of the year, there will likely be 120 shortlisted photos. These will then go earlier than our improbable panel of judges who will determine 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 value £500 and £250, respectively.

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