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iconPHOTO Judging

The judging of the iconPHOTO competition has been completed recently and it took nearly five straight hours to pick the winners, such was the quality of the images entered. My thanks to my fellow judges, Australian landscape icon, Richard Woldendorp, respected APS photographer and judge, Dr Phillip Deschamp and from Canon Australia, passionate photographer, Mat Beetson.

From nearly 1500 entries, the judges finally selected 50 images and then started the long process of debate to arrive at a first and second, three third places and 5 highly commended. To the minds of the judges, the final cull of images would have scored highly in any national or international competition. Judges looked for clear mastery of the skill and craft of the final image together with  creative vision to produce a powerful photograph.

Below is a short statement from each of my three fellow judges:

Richard Woldendorp:

The winner was not an obvious one and it took quite a bit of deliberation between us because of the quality of the top ten photographs.  But after a lot of consideration we all agreed on the final choice.  I am always looking out for the most creative photograph.  If you want to be in control of your image through the computer and digital enhancement and manipulation, there is a good possibility that you close your eyes to the endless variety that is our real visual world, with all of its possibilities.  In other words you might miss the ‘real’ picture.

Dr Phil Deschamp:

The task of choosing winners from so many excellent images was extremely daunting. It was also difficult because each of the four judges had different preferences.

After several reviews we reduced the number of photographs to about 50 and then commenced the extremely difficult task of choosing the top 10. It would have been possible to mount an argument for awarding the top prizes to almost any of this group. Eventually we focused on trying to choose images that we thought were most clearly iconic. The top three images stood out in our collective minds on the basis of their excellence in photography and the fact that they could be considered iconic with regard to their respective subject matter. We express our congratulations to all of the photographers who enter this competition.

Mat Beetson:

The 10 final images is a great representation of the quality of images entered into the iconPHOTO competition.  Judging  1^st place and place winning images was not an easy task.

It was a lengthy process but yielded a unanimous winner.

Thanks to our entrants, sponsors and judges

Iconic Images would like to again thank the judges for their time and wisdom and our generous sponsors, Canon Australia, APS and ASUKABOOK.

A great thank you must go to the hundreds of creative photographers for the quality images entered into iconPHOTO and the high standard throughout the competition.

Our congratulations to all the short listed entrants and to the winners and highly commended photographers.

The 10 finalists have all been notified and encouraged to attend APSCON 2010.

Announcement of the winners will be made at APSCON 2010 and then posted on the Iconic Images International website.

 

Photo Art Gallery entrants Winners

There are three special prizes for Photo Art Gallery (PAG) members who entered iconPHOTO; see Clause #6 in Entry Information.

Congratulations to:

• Pham Tong,
• Carole Margand and
• Phillipa Fredirickson

Each will receive a copy of NIK software. Iconic Images International thank our sponsors NIK Software for these generous prizes.

 

 

Pham Tong

 

All prize winners will be announced at APSCON 2010, in Roma, Queensland

in September 2010.

This competition officially closed at 5.00pm (WST) on Monday, 14th June 2010.

Judging will take place on 22nd July 2010. Shortlisted entrants will be contacted by

31st July 2010, for the preparation of prints; these entrants will not be informed

of the prize(s) for which they have been shortlisted.