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Pic of the Year 2010 – Awards: Online Certificates

Congratulations to our 5 Golden Award winners!! I believe that your entries are worthy of the Golden Honours! Also to the winners of the Silver and Bronze awards below our heartiest congratulations!

Its the photos, not the togs!
As most of you know, we do not rate or classify photographers within the Camerazzi Community – we concern ourselves with photographs and discuss and deal with them at merit without a second thought to where it comes from or who authored it; much less with how it was produced. Our judges are only interested in the final result they see in front of them.

This inevitably means that professionals, amateurs, hobbyists and ordinary enthusiasts compete on equal ground; that equipment doesn’t matter at all and that post-processing is not judged as such – photographs are judged against artistic and technical photographic norms.

I don’t know the winners personally and their profiles are not always helping, but I do know and am quite thrilled that we have at least one professional and two amateurs (who are fairly new to photography) in the top 5, and that at least one of the photos was shot with a non-slr camera. May this serve as proof to all of you guys who believe that you may not have the right equipment or experience to compete here… And may it also convince you that we really are a beginner-friendly site!

Post processing
If the author, the camera, the lens or the computer contributed to making the result a better photo, good! Without getting into a post-processing debate we just wanted to state that post processing is fine if it enhances the natural features of a photo and makes it a better photo, but that it is not fine for our purposes if it transforms the photo into another form of visual art that ‘could not have come from a camera.’

Below are all the Awards bestowed in the Camerazzi Pic of the Year Contest 2010

The top 5 Golden Awards can also be viewed in larger format in the Showcase Gallery here
All the awards, including the Merit Awards, can also be seen in the albums on the Camerazzi facebook page: http://facebook.com/camerazzi

Gold Awards

Emil Wessels – Temple of Horus in Edfu

Bruce Molzen Barnyard Rooster

LeGrange Odendaal – Sun Rainbow

Pikkie Langenhoven – Yes Your Majesty

Jeremy Sanders – Basketball smuggler

Silver Awards

Anton Nel – Elephant calf taking dust bath

Craig Dutton – Inov8 Shoot

Elize Theron – First Panning

Elize Theron – Gathering

Elize Theron – Stadium

Marc Sing Key – Port Elizbeth Stadium

Marie Koen – Guineafowl

Peppie Pretorius – Skoorsteenveër

Steve Bailey – Bomb Burst

Thelma Nel – Mystique Lion

Bronze Awards

Charmaine Joubert – Majestic Addo

Deon Bester – The forgotten

Emil Wessels – Luxor Temple

Gordon Shaw – Chasing Flamingos

Hugh-Daniel Grobler – Friendly Robin

Hugo Klaasen – Milnerton Beach and Lagoon

Kevin Cook – Tiger Moth

LeGrange Odendaal – Bug in a Drop

Marie Koen – Dragonfly

Mark Spencer – Through the looking glass

Mimi Cawood – Princess Storm Mavourneen

Oliver Ludwig – Herdboy

Oliver Ludwig – Smile

Otto Fobian – Things in Flight

Otto Fobian – Flight of the Kingfisher

Scott Michael Anna – Hummer with black background

Steve Bailey – Northern Cape Dramatic Sunrise

Steve Bailey – Cape Agulhas Light House

Thelma Nel – Swoosh

Tod Burns – Rotation