Saturday, 24 January 2009

International Wildbird Photographer

Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua) on Aitcho Island, Antarctic Penninsula
Birds of the world / category winner

Just two days after returning from my Antarctic trip in November I managed to send in a couple of pictures before the closing date of the International Wildbird Photographers Award 2008. I was quit optimistic, but I knew the competition would be hard as always. So I was very happy when the winning images was announced this week by the Bird Watching magazine on their award website her. My graphic interpretation of the Gentoo Penguins on Aitcho Island clinched the prize in front of Hungarian bird photographer Bence Máté, in the "Birds of the World" category.

What the judges said: "The three elements of this photograph are positioned perfectly, showing good use of format and cropping. The exposure has been judged well, given how difficult it is to achieve on snow."



7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Gratulerer Roy!
Dette var artig at du skulle gå helt til topps

Mvh
Ole Jørgen Liodden

Anonymous said...

Gratulerer Roy !
Dette var vel fortjent ! Tøff komposisjon !

Mvh Johannes Jensås

Ivar Bjørdalsbakke said...

Gratulere! Utrolig bra bilde. Fin grafisk effekt og dybdelinje i dette bildet. Likte det veldig godt, og det har jeg tydligvis ikke vært alene om:-)

Roy Mangersnes said...

Tusen takk for fine tilbakemeldinger. Og takk for fint reisefølge Ole Jørgen og Johannes.

Mvh, Roy

Anonymous said...

gratulerer så mye med seieren roy
du er meget dyktig
likte dette bildet godt
kreativt on annerledes med få elementer
rett og slett stilfullt
mvh anders

Anonymous said...

selland hvis du skulle være i tvil

Aleksander Myklebust said...

Gratulerer så mye med seieren! Det var velfortjent av både deg og Schandy!

Mvh Aleksander