Photograph of The Year Competition
A weekly competition runs in the members-only forums to select the Photograph of the Year (POTY) from photographs taken that week. Each week one of a panel of volunteer selectors chooses around 50 of the weeks best photos. Last weeks winner then picks their favourite photo. After the end of the year the weekly winners are voted to decide the best photo of each month. A selector is chosen (usually the person with the most nominations not to get a weekly win) to pick the winning image from the final twelve.
The annual winners are;
- 2011 "Morning Walk" by Mike Smith.
- 2010 "The north ridge of Stob Ban" by Karl and Ali
- 2009 "Miners Hill" by Ian Slater.
- 2008 "Deer Fence on the Shank of Drumfollow" by Gwen and James Anderson.
- 2007 "Horsey Drainage Mill" by Rodney Burton.
- 2006 "Islands of mud, East Hoyle Bank" by Peter Craine.
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Famous quotes containing the words photograph of, photograph, year and/or competition:
“Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“One can describe a landscape in many different words and sentences, but one would not normally cut up a picture of a landscape and rearrange it in different patterns in order to describe it in different ways. Because a photograph is not composed of discrete units strung out in a linear row of meaningful pieces, we do not understand it by looking at one element after another in a set sequence. The photograph is understood in one act of seeing; it is perceived in a gestalt.”
—Joshua Meyrowitz, U.S. educator, media critic. “The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors,” No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Oxford University Press (1985)
“The phenomena of the year take place every day in a pond on a small scale. Every morning, generally speaking, the shallow water is being warmed more rapidly than the deep, though it may not be made so warm after all, and every evening it is being cooled more rapidly until the morning. The day is an epitome of the year. The night is the winter, the morning and evening are the spring and fall, and the noon is the summer. The cracking and booming of the ice indicate a change of temperature.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Wearing overalls on weekdays, painting somebody else’s house to earn money? You’re working class. Wearing overalls at weekends, painting your own house to save money? You’re middle class.”
—Lawrence Sutton, British prizewinner in competition in Sunday Correspondent (London)