Black, White and Summer Competition
Results
Winning Photo

great comp. love the emotion. contrast. this is my winner!! I didn't see this one until late in judging, I kept coming back to it. In the end it won out because this is the one i wish i shot! Enjoy the Leica, can't wait to see what you make with it!

My name is Jessup Deane. I took this photo (on my Mark III + 35mm 1.4) in Charleston, South Carolina on my last personal vacation before moving to New York City from Boston. I was visiting my best friend from high school for the first and only time at college before he graduated. On the second day, the friends he had met while living down in SC decided to join us on a trip to the local fountain. It was such a beautiful day, I rode a bike there with one hand, taking photos while riding with the other. At the fountain...I couldn't STOP shooting. The little kids playing in the fountain were hilarious and after 30-40 min or so, I managed to walk away with some fairly epic frames. Definitely a day I will always remember. (P.S.- All my post processing is using Camera RAW and Adobe Photoshop, the original tonal range of this photo allowed me to really push it until I got an effect I felt matched the power/energy of the photos content.