Our freeze-frame photo challenge proved very popular indeed. While it’s difficult to choose a winner and runners-up from so many strong entries, we’re pleased to have the ‘problem’. In the end, three striking images from Melissa Grimley caught our collective eye, and we’ve decided to give her balletic ‘white man trying to jump’ the winner’s guernsey. She writes: ‘These photos were taken one sunny late afternoon of my brother and a mate whilst they were “mucking about” at a local park with a skateboard and playing one-on-one basketball. The photos were shot with a Canon EOS 300D with a 17-40mm f4 L lens at shutter speeds between 1/1000th and 1/1600th of a second to freeze them in mid-action.’ has won a Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop Executive Edition.
|
 Our freeze-frame photo challenge proved very popular indeed. While it’s difficult to choose a winner and runners-up from so many strong entries, we’re pleased to have the ‘problem’. In the end, three striking images from Melissa Grimley caught our collective eye, and we’ve decided to give her balletic ‘white man trying to jump’ the winner’s guernsey. She writes: ‘These photos were taken one sunny late afternoon of my brother and a mate whilst they were “mucking about” at a local park with a skateboard and playing one-on-one basketball. The photos were shot with a Canon EOS 300D with a 17-40mm f4 L lens at shutter speeds between 1/1000th and 1/1600th of a second to freeze them in mid-action.’ has won a Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop Executive Edition. The first runner-up was Peter Hardin. He loves taking his dog for a walk and swim and he often takes  along his Fujifilm S2 Pro camera. Like our winner, Peter also submitted several high quality shots, but we selected this one for its clean composition and, of course, those marvellous ears!
 Our second runner-up is ‘Sophie Swinging’ from Caroline Telfer. She writes: ‘My kids loved it because they got to swing at the playground for ages while I tried to get a pin-sharp image of them swinging! This is the one I like the best. I like the foliage at the bottom and left of the image to suggest that Sophie is swinging high above the trees, and the blue sky background. Her hair shows the movement without any blur.’ We’ve given an honourable mention to John Boyd for his picture series entitled ‘stormwater over  gabions’. This is one of those double-take subjects that require closer inspection to determine just what you’re looking at – and we liked that. Details of the current Photo Challenge are published in Photo Review magazine. Click here to order online or to find out where to buy your copy.
|
