August Photo Competition ~ The Result
The theme for the August photo competition was “Beach and Sea”. If you’re a regular blog reader, you’ll be aware that it’s been some time since I ran one of these and this time I only gave you just under two weeks instead of the usual month.
None the less you lot really pulled out the stops with a whopping 134 photos being entered and I’d like to thank everyone that got into the spirit of the competition. You can view all the entries by going to the Flickr group page.
As always I looked at all 134 entries very carefully and over the course of a few days I whittled down the number. Usually the first photos I reject are those which are several years old as the idea is to encourage you to go out and take a photo for the competition, not upload an old favourite. However due to the short time scale I gave you I didn’t do that this time round.
There were so many amazing photos it all came down to personal taste (mine in this case), so I selected my favourite photos and the best of those made it into the top 10 as seen below.
To be honest there were several photos which could have easily taken the top spot as I think they’re outstanding. However there can only be one winner and this month the winner is…Untitled By PhotoPcola
David will be getting a copy of his print made by my good friends over at Print Yours.
Near Misses…
The runners up in no particular order are below (keep scrolling down to the find the photos). This time I’ve made a short video looking at why the top 10 are where they are, I hope it helps and remember all the opinions are mine so I don’t expect everyone to agree, especially if you took the photo 
Click on an image to view it large on Flickr. If you didn’t win this time there will be a new challenge. Details are coming soon.
Great winning photo and super top ten, I look forward to the next competition, even though I didn’t make in the top ten, its a great thing to do and got me out and taking photos of the sea side, and I gave me exposure to other photographers amazing creativity which is simply inspirational!!
Steve
Lovely picture Winning picture. I think idea is adopted from one of the Karl Taylor’s training video.
I like the all top 10.
Super photos.. Great Job..
Very nice set of pictures.
I didn’t have the time to participate on this one, but I’ll make sure to propose you a photo one the next one, which I’m eagerly awaiting.
Cheers,
“Valenten”
Some great pictures. The winning image has some good detail and fabulous colours. Congrats to them all.
Fantastic shot! I’m heading down to San Destin, FL and hope to have some photo ops while there!
Loved the video explaining what you liked and didn’t like so much. One thing though you miss spelled your web site address on the opening slide. You left out the V.
Must have been very hard, because I saw many many great pics.
I could never have chosen
Gavin,
Great idea to do the video, it’s always good to hear a critique of photographic images, I find it gives me an insight into how others view my efforts.
PLEASE keep the competition videos coming.
p.s. loving the Adorama stuff.