The 8th Runner-Up (9th Place) in the 2007 Photograph of the Year Contest
After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round, which featured 16 groups of 10 photos each, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2007 Photograph of the Year Contest.
The 8th Runner-Up (9th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2007 Photograph of the Year Contest is MelB with her photograph Morning Glory!!!
For placing 9th, MelB will receive (approximate value: $1,400):
- A Free 1-year Pro Account courtesy of SmugMug (value $150)
- A coppy of Masters of Wedding Photography I courtesy of Masters of Wedding Photography (value $159)
- $100 Gift Card courtesy of ScanCafe
- $50 Gift Certificate courtesy of Frame Destination
- Copies of Arcadia PhotoPerfect, i2e Standard, PerfectlyClear & BackupCD courtesy of Arcadia Software (value $164.95)
- A copy of Photo Creative Suite Single-User License courtesy of Wondershare (value $129.95)
- A copy of the Photoshop Plug-in Suite courtesy of OnOne Software (value $399.95)
- A copy of Photobot courtesy of Tribeca Labs (value $29.95)
- A camera bag courtesy of Lowepro
- A PhotographyCorner.com Pen & Business Card Holder set, 2 PhotographyCorner.com Pens, and a Lifetime, Level I PhotographyCorner.com Premiere Membership (Value $109)
Here are some thoughts from MelB on the photograph:
Morning Glory was shot on a cool Autumn morning, at Lake Wanaka, Mainland New Zealand. Being a lake that’s part of a hydro electric scheme means that the water level rises and falls quite alarmingly. Finding this tree with enough water around it for reflections, and yet with a little island of rock to stand on is difficult things to do, so I was lucky to get this shot. I joined a photographic tour called Godzone 2007, run by Geoff White, a well known panorama photographer here in Australia. We were taken to some amazing locations, and this was one. I used a Canon 5D with 16-35mm lens, tripod, cable release, cokin ND graduated filter and polariser. I bracketed my shots to make sure I got one that was close to what I was after. This was the slightly under exposed frame, which helped keep the colour in the sky and yet still have detail in the rocks and foreground.
You can congratulate Mel here at the 8th Runner-Up Award Thread as well as by posting a comment on the winning photograph here in the Corner Galleries.
Congrats, Mel!!!
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Posted by Tim L. Walker on Fri, 2008–02–01 00:41
Categories: Photograph of the Year
