NPCI winners announced.

The winners of the Nikon Photo Contest have been announced:

http://www.nikon-photocontest.com/en/results/

Frankly, I see better images posted daily on here.

Thanks for the link. I thought there were some great images shown. This site is a 'nature' site but the images you linked to are contemporary photography, two vastly different but valid areas of photography. Why not respect your fellow photographer a little?

Both Grand Prizes were shot with a Canon.   Whoops.

Kim wrote:Thanks for the link. I thought there were some great images shown. This site is a 'nature' site but the images you linked to are contemporary photography, two vastly different but valid areas of photography. Why not respect your fellow photographer a little?

I don't think I am disrespecting their photography when I say I just don't like it. I admit it's not my type of photography. Kind of like modern art.*
Looking at the contest over the history if the NPCI, I often see images way down the list that are far better images in every way than the winners. I know that what "I" use to judge images isn't what they use. I ask myself if I want that shot on my wall. Frankly, I consider the most popular voted image to be far better and more interesting than all of the winners. (the Chinese children where one is carrying the other) The wedding shot is also better. Just my opinion.

*There was an art gallery where we visited once with very abstract art. To the point where I asked myself if the fire extinguisher on the wall was an exhibit. I came around the corner and displayed all across the floor was piles that looked just like cow patties. The artist had taken chunks of rock and melted them down and plopped them on the floor in random spots and I swear they looked just like my cow pasture back home.

bikinchris wrote: I don't think I am disrespecting their photography when I say I just don't like it. I admit it's not my type of photography.

Me too. Just not my thing. Although I thought the flower shots excellent.

I like the Grand Prize still photo. It can be easily overlooked until you take a closer look. It has an intricate beauty and looks almost like an embroidery. The Participants Award for Most Popular entry has that National Geographic look to it.

Andrew Kandel wrote:Both Grand Prizes were shot with a Canon.   Whoops.

Whoops indeed....

I find many of these contests to be really weird. The backstory is more important I feel than the image itself. Often it is the shock value of the photograph - typically poverty, disease, famine, war, violence that determines the winning potential.

I don't get it at all, but then I am hardly qualified to be the judge of what a good photograph should be, other than what I like or dislike myself.

Pradeep