Congratulations to June Sharpe ARPS who has come away with the seventeenth International Garden Photographer of the Year competitors title along with her picture ‘Birdscape’.
The International Garden Photographer of the Year 17 exhibition is now on at Kew Gardens till Sunday tenth March 2024, the place a number of podium and finalist pictures shall be on show.
From International Garden Photographer of the Year, February 2024:
IGPOTY Competition 17 primary classes closed for entries on October thirty first, 2023 and acquired many nice submissions from all over the world.
Categories embody; 7IM Abstract Views, Beautiful Gardens, Breathing Spaces, Plants & Planet, The Beauty of Plants, The World of Fungi, Trees, Woods & Forests, Wildflower Landscapes and Wildlife within the Garden.
The Overall Winner was chosen from the first Places of the above classes.
Many congratulations to all of the winners and particularly to the Overall Winner of IGPOTY Competition 17 – June Sharpe from England, UK – with the picture entitled ‘Birdscape’.
Birdscape by June Sharpe ARPS
Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM lens, 1/350sec at f/5.6, ISO 800. Post-capture: added white fill layer (exclusion mix mode), basic picture administration in Adobe Photoshop.
June stated: “Now, more than ever, it is vitally important to connect with nature and highlight the beauty and fragility of our planet’s ecosystems. The International Garden Photographer of the Year competition does just that and, in doing so, attracts vast numbers of stunningly beautiful and inspirational entries. Being awarded the title of Overall Winner is an enormous and totally unexpected privilege.”
Tyrone McGlinchey FLS FRSA, Head Judge, IGPOTY stated: “When judging pictures we are hoping to be embraced, and taken on a journey, within a story. June’s picture delivers. There is an abundance of interest and depth which fires the imagination. The soft, new growth transforming between plant and feathers – it is both enticing and enchanting. We are pulled into and beyond the symbolic dancing cranes, and embraced by their ‘wings’, to a place of hope and peace. It is rare that one can connect with nature and feel such compassion.”
June will obtain £4,000 and the Overall Winning picture will function on the IGPOTY 17 flagship exhibition at Kew Gardens, which is deliberate to open to the general public on Feb third, 2024 and run till March tenth, 2024.
Many congratulations are additionally resulting from Annaick Guitteny, who placed 1st, within the ‘Portfolios’ class for the set of six pictures with the portfolio title ‘Evanescence’.
‘Portfolios’ is run as a stand-alone competitors in affiliation with The Royal Photographic Society (The RPS).
Annaick will obtain £1,000 and an RPS Gold Medal.
Discover how one can create a profitable images portfolio, with Annaick’s ideas right here.
Evanescence by Annaick Guitteny, 1st Place, Portfolios, IGPOTY Competition 17
IGPOTY 17 Exhibition at Kew Gardens
The International Garden Photographer of the Year 17 exhibition is now on at Kew Gardens till Sunday tenth March 2024.
The Competition 17 launch exhibition is supported by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and can function a number of higher-placed profitable pictures (primarily chosen from Podium and Finalist degree locations), there may even be a number of higher-placed pictures from the ‘Captured at Kew’ Special Award on show.
International Garden Photographer of the Year 18 will open for entries later in February 2024.
IGPOTY is inclusive and accepts entries from each beginner {and professional} grownup photographers, worldwide.
The primary IGPOTY competitors usually opens in February and closes on thirty first October (12 Noon/GMT) annually.
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