A good variety of moments and things covered here. Many would have placed better in a more appropriate category (General News or Sports Feature) or with better crops in cases of both honorable mentions.
First place was the best pictorial the judges have seen in a while, shows good thought into place and light with a little bit of luck even getting a bird flying through the lens flare.
Second place is a great moment that was either a lucky find or shows good networking and contacts in the community to give you a heads up this was happening. Would have really benefited from a better crop, as is we would have cropped horizontally. Vertically cropped you either want to see all the boat or all the reflection not an awkward bit of both.
Third place is a great moment from a derby, this is just definitely the wrong category. Even if you were covering the event as a news story the argument could be made this is a sports feature.
Both honorable mentions had great potential but cropped as is with unnecessary dead space or distracting backgrounds good photos got lost.
Judges:
Sarah Gordon/The Day, Peter Huoppi/The Day, Dana Jensen/The Day
Judges Comments
A good variety of moments and things covered here. Many would have placed better in a more appropriate category (General News or Sports Feature) or with better crops in cases of both honorable mentions. First place was the best pictorial the judges have seen in a while, shows good thought into place and light with a little bit of luck even getting a bird flying through the lens flare. Second place is a great moment that was either a lucky find or shows good networking and contacts in the community to give you a heads up this was happening. Would have really benefited from a better crop, as is we would have cropped horizontally. Vertically cropped you either want to see all the boat or all the reflection not an awkward bit of both. Third place is a great moment from a derby, this is just definitely the wrong category. Even if you were covering the event as a news story the argument could be made this is a sports feature. Both honorable mentions had great potential but cropped as is with unnecessary dead space or distracting backgrounds good photos got lost.