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Intl. Garden Photographer of the Year Competition Winners.
Alan Clark2 in Liverpool
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Such gorgeous photos and those lupins are stunning.
Thank Alan - wonderful photos
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gawd......no wish to be a party pooper, but those pictures have been so post processed they look (to me) quite ridiculous.
Photography as art David - just like painting it's about the manipulation of materials (see my comment about veracity on Tootles' thread about the photos in GW mag).
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I agree, Dove....but this cheating (post processing) has caused me to quit my camera club and a lot of members were sympathetic. A recent competition winner admitted he had taken the foreground of his landscape shot in Wales, the sky in Scotland etc etc.....sorry, not for me.
In photographic circles it's forbidden to doctor nature shots....alas, witness Countryfile's calendar - a laughing hedgehog, a red squirrel posing conveniently alongside a tree stump...again, not for me.
Art? Yes, if that encompasses computer skills.
David, I thought it was just me
In the sticks near Peterborough
Christina Harrison, Editor, Kew Magazine
"When I first saw this shot, it just blew me away. I've been to this area of New Zealand, but have never seen the lupins that grow there look so stunning.
"The way the soft light picks up the best of all the colours in this landscape makes it a very worthy winner. You just want to be there."
The above is a quote about the winning photograph. There is a reason she has never seen the lupins looking so stunning. It's probably because they don't. I have no objection to photos being tweaked in the name of art but when it's a photography competition then I don't think they should be, it's supposed to be about skill with a camera, not a computer.
I was also confused by what constitutes a garden for a 'garden photographer'. Well over half the shots were of natural landscapes, apart from being doctored.
I also thought Fairy's robin captured far more of the essence of robins than that alien looking bird
I totally agree, Buttercup.
Having taken a close look at the 'lupin' picture, I would guess it's a composite of at least three pictures...no way of proving it of course.
PS, Fairy's 'squirrel' has pride of place as my pc's background....I can offer no higher accolade.