competition winners 2019
Our iPhotography 2021 Member Awards have once again been a massive success with a huge number of uploads and votes cast in this year’s photography contest.
Now it’s time to reveal all the finalists and winners.
What’s Being Announced?
This year we will be crowning multiple winners in this photography contest.
With the addition of new awards in 2021, they’ll be 6 winning members announced today.
To start off we’ll be announcing our 12 Days of Christmas Photography Champion (as well as all 12 category winners).
Then we’ll move on to celebrating our iPhotography Landscape, Creative, Portrait and Wildlife images of the year.
And finally, we’ll be announcing the big winner of the contests – iPhotography’s Photographer of the Year 2021.
Our 2021 Photographer of the Year will be walking away with a spectacular bundle.
Including an engraved trophy and a 1-year subscription to iPhotography PLUS (worth £200)
12 Days of Christmas Category Finalists
We’ve had a huge amount of entries for this year’s contest. You overloaded the gallery with evergreen photos and pictures of Christmas characters.
Straight from the off, it was going to be hard to choose 12 category finalists – let alone one overall winner. Either way, here are the 12 finalists as chosen by the iPhotography tutors.
Ancuta Breaban
Day 1 – Winter Landscapes
Lilla Wantuch-Michalska
Day 2 – Decorations
Anne Luther Gandy
Day 3 – Morning Mist
Anne Tickner
Day 4 – Winter Woollies
Lucia Kasalova
Day 5 – Evegreen
Rhonda Tough
Day 6 – Winter Wildlife
Christina Cox
Day 7 – Gatherings
Roz May
Day 8 – Frozen
Peter Dyson
Day 9 – Winter Shopping
Wend Burrows
Day 10 – Winter Selfie
Catherine Lawson
Day 11 – Festive Food
Jayne Williams
Day 12 – Winter Bokeh
And the Overall Winner Is…
Anne Luther Gandy
Congratulations to Anne Luther Gandy for becoming our 2021 12 Days of Christmas Photography Contest Champion!
We loved Anne’s technically skilful and emotive shot of the lone fisherman out on the lake.
Christmas isn’t all snowflakes and icicles. There are lots of wonderful ways of showing off the cold weather and the brisk atmosphere we’re greeted with most mornings.
The blanket of morning mist shrouded this image in a soft veil only to be contrasted by the intriguing figure in the boat. Well done to Anne who’s had a wonderful year with her photography. Good luck in 2022!
2021 Member Award Winners
There have only been 8 previous winners of POTY (Photographer of the Year) so this year’s champion is in a prestigious group.
Though the iPhotography tutors selected the shortlist of 12, it was you who voted for the overall winner of this photography contest.
To make it on to the list in the first place is a hard task.
Our tutors review your year’s uploads and look at aspects of development, consistency, creativity, engagement and execution. It’s not about a one-off shot, this is about your entire body of work and attitude as a photographer in the community.
Without further ado here are the contest winners…
Landscape Image of the Year
James Palmer
Wildlife Image of the Year
Kevin Pamphlion
Popular Image of the Year
Randy Wayman
Portrait Image of the Year
Phillippa Griffiths
Creative Image of the Year
Julia Briggs
Photographer of the Year 2021
Deborah McPhail
Congratulations to Deborah McPhail for being voted iPhotography 2021 Photographer of the Year!
This is the second year Deborah has been voted Photographer of the Year. She joined iPhotography PLUS back in 2020 and we’ve been tracking her wonderful progress across her Highland adventures. Her passion for landscape photography is undoubtedly strong. She’s regularly caught the eye of members and tutors in the gallery with her 5-star images taken all across the Western Coast of Scotland.
We are so proud to see Deborah retain the title of Photographer of the Year in a closely fought vote which was only decided by a handful of votes in the final hours.
Thank you to everyone who entered and voted in our end of year photography contests. We’re running more photography contests in 2022 as an opportunity to showcase your talents more often.
If you’re not already a member of iPhotography then join the community and start taking the photos you’ve been dreaming of.
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