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| International Garden Photographer of the Year Overall winner Magdalena Wasiczek's Upside Down (Trzebinia, Malopolska region, Poland) click the link to see the original and discover exactly what is upside down! Try looking at this and imagining a non-neutral mid-value background. (prints available from Kew) |
- The Art of the Landscape - Landscape Photographer of the Year 2011
- Making A Mark - Review: Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011
This one is very much a complement to my own personal interests - which very much include the visual images associated with plants, flowers, trees and gardens.
The reason I like looking at photography exhibitions is that I always find them very stimulating. Photographers are all dealing with the same subject matter so to my mind they seem to work harder at 'what makes a good picture' and 'how to make my work look different from the rest'.
There's also something to do with how shots are framed - I learn a lot from the intelligent use of the four most important lines
This is the website for The International Garden Photographer of the Year 2012 competition. the competition was started by a professional group of garden photographers in 2007 and has become the most popular garden photography contest in the world. Entries come from all over the world.
There are seven categories plus an Under 16 section and a section for Portfolios – a themed collection of six photographs.
These are the winners from the first five years of the competition
The reason I like looking at photography exhibitions is that I always find them very stimulating. Photographers are all dealing with the same subject matter so to my mind they seem to work harder at 'what makes a good picture' and 'how to make my work look different from the rest'.
There's also something to do with how shots are framed - I learn a lot from the intelligent use of the four most important lines
The International Garden Photographer of the Year 2012
This is the website for The International Garden Photographer of the Year 2012 competition. the competition was started by a professional group of garden photographers in 2007 and has become the most popular garden photography contest in the world. Entries come from all over the world.
There are seven categories plus an Under 16 section and a section for Portfolios – a themed collection of six photographs.
These are the winners from the first five years of the competition
You can see all the winners for the different categories on the IGPOTY website
- The Beauty of Plants
- Beautiful Gardens
- Wildlife Havens
- Breathing Spaces
- Bountiful Earth
- Trees Woods Forests
- Fragile Landscapes
- Greening The City
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| Winner of Portfolios - Joanna Stoga |
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| 2nd and 3rd places - Porfolios competition John Grant - Solace: Adrift with Flowers | The Beauty of Plants Nikki de Gruchy A Garden of Walls in a Border Town | Beautiful Gardens |
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| Dennis Frates |
Other exhibition venues
The exhibition for the 2011 winners was launched at Kew and will also be seen in various places in the UK and abroad - more details here| Dates | Venue | Exhibition | Contact details | Photographs |
| 3 March - 9 April 2012 | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK | 5 | RBG Kew | Competition 5 winners |
| 23 March - 10 June 2012 | Royal Albert Museum, Exeter, UK | 4 | RAMM Exeter | Download list of exhibition photographs |
 3 April -8 June 2012 | Antrim Castle Gardens, Northern Ireland | 5 | Download list of exhibition photographs | |
| 21 April - 30 June 2012 | Rheged Centre, Penrith, Cumbria, UK | 5 | Rheged Centre | Competition 5 winners |
| 12 June - 26 August 2012 | Palace of Monserrate, Sintra, Portugal | 1, 4 | Monserrate Palace | tba |
| 14 July - 26 September 2012 | Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Shropshire, UK | 4 | Ironbridge Gorge Museum | Download list of exhibition photographs |
| 21 July - 30 September 2012 | Winchester Discovery Centre, Hampshire, UK | 4 | Winchester Discovery Centre | Download list of exhibition photographs |
| 30 August - 16 September 2012 | Aula Picta, Bergamo, Italy | 4, 5 | Arketipos - I Maestri del Paesaggio | tba |
| 2 September - 31 October 2012 | Chelsea Physic Garden, London, UK | 5 | Chelsea Physic Garden | tba |
| 3 November 2012 - 19 January 2013 | Callendar House, Falkirk, Scotland | 5 | tba |
International Garden Photographer of the Year 2012 Competition
The sixth annual competition opens in March 2012 with a deadline of November 30th 2012.
I always enjoy seeing photography posts, exhibitions, galleries etc.
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree in some respects they have to work harder.
This is evidenced by the back story of photographers Debashis Bandyopadhya ("...out before sunrise...") and Dennis Frates ("...the sun had set and the trail was almost pitch black.") among others...
I like hearing the human interest side of their trials and tribulations of capturing their subjects. Not always in controlled environments or easy.
The story of the New Mexico crosses by Ansel Adams always comes to mind.
Some specular images here!
Some of my favorites:
"Drinking II" by Vincentius Ferdinand, can't go wrong with ants!
"Upside Down" by Magdalena Wasiczek
"Confused Grasshopper" by Matt Cole
"Sweet Dawn" by Diane Varner
"Dance" by John Grant
"Inside Out" by Jenifer Bunnett, I love orange!
"Golden Light" by Bror Johansson, more orange to love! And graphically so striking.
"Conversations from a Balcony at dusk along the High Line" by Claire Takacs
"Invitation to a Private View" by Colin Pearce
I bought a poster from wildlife photographer Thomas G. Mangelsens' gallery in Santa Barbara CA a few years back and I still love looking at it. From 'BBC/British Gas 1994 Photographer of the Year', titled "Born of the North Wind"... can't go wrong with polar bears!
Keep up your good work Katherine, another thorough post.
And great work on your pinterest posts. A huge service (your posts and work to prevent unwanted pins) to so many others.
I don't know how you do so much.