We’re never quite sure what to expect from our endlessly creative Photo Challengers and the Veiled challenge was no exception to the rule. Winner Pamela Smith earned first place for noticing and then capturing the veiling effect of a horse’s mane. This is the kind of outside-of-the-box thinking we really like to see. For her well-executed effort, Photo Review Australia is pleased to send Pamela a JCMatthew 19-inch (48cm) digital photo frame, the DPF-BOM19 HD Pro Series 1280×1024 resolution with secure file technology.
PR31 Photo Challenge: Long and Winding Road
https://www.photoreview.com.au/competitions/photo-challenge/pr31-photo-challenge-long-and-winding-road/Asked to do a bit of roadwork, our photo challengers responded with enthusiasm and creativity. The brief was to create images that somehow conveyed the spirit of ‘the long and winding road’. Once again the judging task was not an easy one, but in the end we had to go for Adam Donnelly’s moody study.
PR29 Photo Challenge: Musical Performance
https://www.photoreview.com.au/competitions/photo-challenge/pr29-photo-challenge-musical-performance/Our PR29 Photo Challenge was simple enough – namely, to capture a musical performance. We decided to give the winner’s guernsey to Mat Moore for his untitled but interestingly complex study of a musician and his audience of one [right, and larger image below]. It’s a very nicely composed image, with an intriguing visual tension between the two subjects.
PR28 Photo Challenge: Taking Flight
https://www.photoreview.com.au/competitions/photo-challenge/pr28-photo-challenge-taking-flight/For PR28 Photo Challenge, we asked photographers to respond with images that somehow conveyed the idea of taking flight. And, as always, our Photo Challengers were up to the task. Our winning image comes to us from Rebecca Cover who has managed to capture her daughter and the family blue cattle dog mid-bounce as they run off to play.
PR27 Photo Challenge: Sunsets
https://www.photoreview.com.au/competitions/photo-challenge/pr27-photo-challenge-sunsets/Arguably the most popular subject for pictures, sunsets are inherently photogenic. But their beauty seems to dazzle many photographers into forgetting about the rest of the frame.
PR26 Photo Challenge: Right Time, Right Place
https://www.photoreview.com.au/competitions/photo-challenge/pr26-photo-challenge-right-time-right-place/The challenge to photograph a special place at a special time turned out to be rather popular. Our winner is a simple and pleasantly mellow image taken by Curl Curl, NSW’s Caue Mello. “The daily walk on the park (Curl Curl). It seems that even Roxy (the dog) got impressed with the sunset.”
PR25 Photo Challenge: Dinnertime
https://www.photoreview.com.au/competitions/photo-challenge/pr25-photo-challenge-dinnertime/Photo Challenge 23 was another in our series of challenges that ask you to look anew at some part of daily life. The only travel it required was a trip to the dinner table.
PR20 Photo Challenge: Down Low
https://www.photoreview.com.au/competitions/photo-challenge/pr20-photo-challenge-down-low/Challenge 18 was to get down low and to shoot upward. Peter Cook, our winner, went lower than any of the entrants in his search for an interesting angle.
PR19 Photo Challenge: Freeze-frame
https://www.photoreview.com.au/competitions/photo-challenge/pr19-photo-challenge-freeze-frame/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.
Photo Challenge 23: Dinnertime
https://www.photoreview.com.au/competitions/photo-challenge/photo-challenge-23-dinnertime/Photo Challenge 23 was another in our series of challenges that ask you to look anew at some part of daily life. The only travel it required was a trip to the dinner table.