City Competition 2 2014 - all cities! : Results

Judges Comment
<p>The jury unanimously selected this image as the winner for it’s beautiful painterly quality, and superb composition. The framing and lines within the image all draw attention toward the subject but also give the viewer a path to move his or her eyes around the rest of the image. Colors in the image work together in harmony with the composition and the quality of light is just wonderful. Well executed! Additionally we felt this image epitomized city life.</p><p>One juror said, “This is the kind of image that made me move from the suburbs to the city."</p>
Photographers Comment
Hi and thanks for choosing my photo. The photo was taken at downtown Auckland, New Zealand. My camera is a Nikon d610, and I shot it with a 50mm lens. I shoot exclusively with 50mm lens. Kind regards, Pieter Van Der Walt.

Judges Comment
We were captivated by this image that seems to tell a story about its subjects in a lyrical way speaking quietly with it’s soft moonlight. On first blush the viewer is taken by a the sensual feeling of beauty of the whole frame, but this feeling transfers to one of wonder as the focus is drawn in to the subjects. In a gentle way it gives us a vignette of what other lives in other locations might be like. Congratulations to the photographer for a well composed and captured image.

Judges Comment
This image perfectly illustrates how sometimes fewer elements can make an image stronger. Here the photographer has put together a very compelling image with just a few shapes and lines - but perfectly arranged. Silhouetted against the sky, the people add a sense of scale and humanity to the image without distracting. Great image!

Judges Comment
Some images have a way of stepping higher than the scene literally rendered, and this urban landscape does just that. The literal image shows a dirty, crowded and even some what broken gut of a city, however it doesn’t read that way at all. Instead the image reads very pleasantly as an abstract view, energetic and fertile with happy spots of color and even repeating shapes of the buildings.

Judges Comment
We love images that make us smile! Fantastic capture and great idea to take the back side of the Buddha with the happy face smiling down on it and us. Composition works well divided into quarters like this with the shadow of the sculpture repeating again down low to bring that part of the frame into play and the empty sky serves as a respite. Excellent!
Photographers Comment
This is in Seoul, beside Namdaemun Market. I waited until sunset for the shadow on the wall to appear. The foto was taken with panasonic lc1 and edited in photogene.

Judges Comment
Sparkling like a jewel, this is an eye grabbing image. We appreciated the effort that went into capturing the image and enjoyed the rendering of light and color which are difficult to handle on night shots, as well as the work done to keep foreground and background elements sharp all of which contribute to a winning image.

Judges Comment
We imagined this image could be a still from a movie scene where the protagonist spirals down from good to bad - okay maybe that’s not what’s really happening, but the man walking through a channel of light into the dark makes for an interesting image and builds intrigue.
Photographers Comment
Congratulations to the winner, who took an outstanding shot. I would also like to thank the judges for their comments. This picture was taken in Kings Cross in Sydney using a Leica Camera M Monochrom camera with a Leica Elmarit-M 28mm f/2.8 ASPH lens. Post processing in Lightroom 5 and Silver Efex Pro 2. Thank you for opening this competition up to all cities! Andrew Lance.
www.andrewlance.com/

Judges Comment
In the course of jurying the I-Shot-it City competition, we see a large number of excellent urban landscape shots and its unfortunate that we can’t award more of them. We felt that this image really stood above in its excellently selected and composed group of buildings as well of its polished clean and straight lines and post processing. This image really sings!
Photographers Comment
Thanks for this mark of excellence, it's a great honour! The photo shows the skyline of Sydney, Australia.
www.bartbrouwerphotography.com

Judges Comment
In some sense this image represents an outlier in the group, but it stood out in a good way. This image captured a slice of time the fully embodies the sensibility and activity of city life. It does so in an engaging way that allows the viewer to share in that moment to feel like we were there. The man seems recognizable to all, but we can’t place him. Do you know him? Even though this seems to be a snapshot, the spacing of the people and movement of the people works well compositionally. Great timing!
Photographers Comment
This photo was taken on the esplanade beside the Bund in Shanghai in 2004 .It shows a group exercising to music in the early morning.This is one of many groups doing tai chi,exercises and even ballroom dancing on the esplanade. I have been lucky to,have travelled extensively and wherever I am ,at home or overseas,I am always up early and walking invairably with a camera..On this occasion I was using my Leica Digilux 1.
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