CJPOTY round ten winners

The theme for the tenth round of the Digital camera Jabber Photographer of the Year (CJPOTY) competitors was ‘Silhouettes’ and it proved to be a highly regarded round.

Now, we are able to reveal that the next pictures will go onto our shortlist to be judged by our illustrious panel on the finish of the year.

Certainly one of these ten shortlisted pictures 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. One intelligent photographer has additionally managed to get two pictures shortlisted.

CJPOTY October 2022 Silhouettes shortlisted pictures

Angela Harrod

Angela’s picture reveals that the most effective camera is the one you’ve gotten with you as she shot this straightforward but memorable picture along with her iPhone. We love the composition and timing of this shot.

Rebecca Hedges

Rebecca has two pictures shortlisted on this round, her first was captured at dawn in Morocco utilizing a Sony Alpha 100. It’s one other easy but properly composed shot and it makes good use of the colorful sky.

This time Rebecca was in Andermatt, Switzerland and capturing from the highest of the Gemsstock mountain along with her Sony SLT-A77. We love the interlocking mountains with their totally different shades of gold and the deep shadow within the foreground.

Nancy Arehart

Nancy’s hanging picture, shot with a Nikon D850, reveals a mom rhino along with her well-grown calf strolling throughout a dam simply after sundown. Their form and the color of the sky actually pulled us in.

Edyta Rice

Edyta tells us that she stumbled throughout this magical early morning scene in a neighborhood woodland. Mild was spreading throughout the forest, subtle within the robust fog, and it created these excellent situations. Edyta grabbed her Nikon D850 and captured a number of pictures of the magnificent stag shifting proper in entrance of her.

Philippa Huber

Philippa says, ‘simply earlier than the pandemic closed our borders, I used to be on Lake Kerkini photographing the magnificent Dalmatian Pelicans. The boat left the small harbour earlier than daybreak and over the course of 4 days I skilled all kinds of climate. I took this shot utilizing my Nikon D750 on a stunningly crisp, chilly morning as a pelican glided previous, you may see the solar rising above the horizon, bathing the lake in its golden glow.’

Sue Newman

Sue was up early to seize this magical picture along with her Canon EOS 90D at Bushy Park close to Hampton Courtroom Palace within the UK, however it may simply be mistaken for a picture taken in Africa. It was well-worth getting up for Sue!

Eileen Welland

Eileen says that this is without doubt one of the very first silhouettes that she captured when she began capturing along with her Nikon D3400. The statue creates a daring form towards the window blinds and the picture caught our eyes from the outset.

Helen Cherry

Helen tells us that she visited Kew Gardens within the UK in April and was completely fascinated by the
lovely aluminium Hive set up, significantly from beneath its glass ground. This picture, captured utilizing Helen’s Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III, is of a number of kids enjoying on this glass ground making fascinating silhouettes.

Jane Gross

Jane captured this picture of an elephant strolling throughout the horizon at Ol Pejeta Conservancy Kenya along with her Nikon D750. She says, ‘for 2 evenings we lay within the grass watching the elephants strolling throughout the horizon. I wished to border a smaller animal within the elephant’s trunk. An impala stopped to graze simply the place I wished it, then simply as I took the photograph, it seemed up in my path. Once I seemed on the photograph I had taken, I used to be thrilled to see {that a} fowl had flown by within the body at simply the precise time, giving me an impala and a fowl framed within the elephant’s trunk.’ Nicely achieved Jane, it’s a superb picture.

CJPOTY October 2022 winner: Nancy Arehart

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

Nancy’s picture will be a part of the opposite 9 in our shortlist to be judged for the general prize on the finish of the year.

CJPOTY November 2022: Fantastic Woodlands

The theme for the tenth round of the Digital camera Jabber Photographer of the Year (CJPOTY) competitors is ‘Fantastic Woodlands. We need to see a celebration of woodlands; their timber, natural world – don’t fear, you don’t should get all of them in the identical shot.

This round of our month-to-month competitors is open for submissions till 23:59 GMT (00:59 CET and 15:59 PST) on thirtieth November 2022.

To submit your entry, go to cjpoty.com. You’ll be able to submit as much as three entries for £2.00 plus cost processing prices (£0.26). The pictures could be taken at any time and needs to be Jpegs no less than 1920 pixels alongside their longest facet, however no bigger than 5MB.

Photographing woodlands

There are many potential topics for this round and you need to use nearly any lens. A macro lens is good for getting near tiny fungi, a wide-angle lens will allow you to seize a much bigger view and a telephoto will allow you to pick distant (or high-up) particulars.

Woodlands could be particularly enticing in mist whereas robust daylight creates good patches of shadow with robust highlights. Regardless of the climate situations, take into consideration the white stability that you just use as a result of the deep shady areas can find yourself trying a bit too impartial and even chilly when you use the auto setting – though that’s high-quality if that’s the look that you really want.

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 June entries. The photographer of the profitable picture will obtain a voucher from MPB.com to the worth of £500 which could 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 pictures will go into our shortlist for the year.

We’ll do that every month in 2022 in order that by the tip of the year, there will probably be 120 shortlisted pictures. These will then go earlier than our unbelievable panel of judges who will determine the first, 2nd and Third-placed pictures. You don’t should enter the competitors each month, however you’re welcome to take action and the extra shortlisted pictures you’ve gotten on the finish of the year, the better than probability of profitable the highest prize.

The photographer of the first-placed picture total, as determined by the panel of judges, will obtained 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.

The judges are:

Ben Brain – Photographer, journalist & Sigma ambassador
Sophie Collins – Chief Advertising Workplace at MPB
Donna Crous – Meals photographer, writer, Nikon Europe ambassador and Rotolight Grasp of Mild
Kate Hopewell-Smith – Marriage ceremony, portrait & boudoir photographer, Sony ambassador
Sanjay Jogia – Marriage ceremony photographer & Canon ambassador
Pete Reed OBE – Thrice Olympic gold medal-winning rower and eager documentary photographer
Dominique Shaw – Photographer and co-founder of York Place Studios and Fujifilm ambassador
Craig Strong – Lensbaby founder
Christina Vaughan – Founding father of Cultura Inventive, the house of inclusive inventory pictures
Jeremy Walker – Panorama photographer, writer & former Nikon ambassador

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