We are pleased to announce the winner and show all the finalists in the December photography competition on the theme of Nude. The December competition on the theme of Nude has a prize of the ThinkTank Photo Urban Disguise 30, value US$130. Congratulations to Randy Mohr for the image Sleep (follow the link to the image in the gallery). You can see all the finalists in the gallery. Congratulations to all the finalists. … Read entire article »

We are pleased to announce the winner and show all the finalists in the November photography competition on the theme of Fire. The November competition on the theme of Fire has a prize of the ThinkTank Photo Digital Holster 30, valued at US$69. We would like to congratulate the winner, J.J. Guy Longtin for the image Gargoyle. You can see all the finalists in the gallery. Congratulations to all the finalists. … Read entire article »

We are pleased to announce the winner and show all the finalists in the October Macro competition. The prize is a ThinkTank Photo Urban Disguise 20, value US$99. We are pleased to award the prize for this competition to Darren Livingston  for his outstanding Newly sprouted fruit tree leaf with dew. You can view all the finalists in the macro competition gallery. Congratulations to all the finalists. … Read entire article »

We are pleased to announce the winner and show all the finalists in the September Water competition. The prize is a ThinkTank Photo Digital Holster 20, value US$55. We are pleased to award the prize for this competition to Reggie Linsao  for his outstanding but poorly named DIMW_evilempire. It is an infrared photo of Mowry Conservation Area, Smithfield, RI You can view all the finalists in the water competition gallery. Congratulations to all the finalists. … Read entire article »

We had some great entries in the July competition for photography and digital art. The July 2008 ThinkTank Photo Competition was on the theme of people. It was open to both photography and digital art. We had a lot of great entries and so we wish to acknowledge a few close runners up. We were very taken with Felix Menard’s Hose, Joe Nalven’s Intensity-Web and John Tomley’s Morning Ritual. But the clear winner of the Digital Holster 10, value US$45, is J.J. Guy Longtin’s stunning AAA_sw_bridge_med. This image has great atmosphere and is striking. You can see all the runners up in the photography and art competition gallery. Congratulations to all the finalists. … Read entire article »

The AWoIR results are up. Some stunning infrared photography was entered and picking a winner was tough. A World of Infrared Photography exhibition and competition is up. As expected, we received a lot of great entries for this competition, with an excellent prize of a $400 allowance towards any MaxMax.com product or service, such as filters or having a camera converted to infrared. It was a tough competition to judge, because entries covered quite a range of approaches. We got it down to a shortlist of five, then two and finally chose the winner. In fact everyone who entered is a winner because we were universally impressed with the great work people are doing. The winning entry is by Zach Stern of Gaithersburg, MD, in the US. Called “Field 0″ the feeling from … Read entire article »

The winner of this photography competition is now up. The March competition winner is finally up. We’ve had a lot of personal dramas here and that is mainly the reason for the holdup in publishing this. I have also been reconsidering the running of competitions with small value prizes, which frankly attract too few entries to make it worthwhile for anyone. More news on that soon. Anyway, March was weather photography and we got a very small number of entries. From these the winner was a clear standout as a strong, well composed and considered image. So the winner of the ThinkTank Photo Pee Wee Pixel Pocket Rocket prize, valued at $13.50, is Barbara E. Leven of Astoria, NY. “The title of this image is “W Train”.  The newly fallen snow, the curve … Read entire article »

We are pleased to announce the winner and show all the finalists in the January wildlife photography competition. The prize is a Thinktank Photo Remote Control 20 prize valued at $59.95 This is a raincover for camera and big lens An interesting competition to judge. We are pleased to award the prize for this competition to J.J. Guy Longtin of Canada for his stunning entry Racoon Totem. Simply amazing. You can view all the finalists in the wildlife photography competition gallery. A special congratulations to Félix Ménard for a very close second with his snail image. Congratulations to all the finalists. … Read entire article »

We are pleased to announce the winner and show all the finalists in the December pet photography competition. The prize for the November competition is the Lens Changer 75 prize valued at US$32.95. The Lens Changer 75 can go on your belt or a harness system and will hold a large 80-200 f2.8 or similar sized lens, with the lenshood attached, or several smaller lenses. It is ideal for putting the lenses you need readily to hand when working a location without being bulky or limiting your mobility. A large number of great entries made this a hard competition to judge but in the end we got it worked out. We are pleased to award the prize for this competition to Gary Martin of the United Kingdom for histwo entries, but in particular the … Read entire article »

We are please to announce the winner and show all the finalists in the November The Image competition. Well, we set ourselves a very tough task for this competition: a completely open competition where the concentration is the resulting image. We have two copies of the excellent Extensis Portfolio 8.5 Digital Asset Management software to be won. This software makes it easy to keep track of all the digital image and other media files that we use to make our images. The two prizes are download licences and you can download either a Windows or Mac version to suit your needs. The software is valued at US$199.95. As you could image, the competition was far from easy to judge. At least we had two equal first prizes to offer that made things easier. In the end we got … Read entire article »

We are please to announce the winner and show all the finalists in the November landscape photography competition. The prize for the November competition is the ThinkTank Lens Changer 35 prize valued at $26.50. The Lens Changer 35 can go on your belt or a harness system and will hold a 24-70 f2.8 or similar sized lens, like a 100mm f2.8 macro, with the lenshood attached, or several smaller lenses. It is ideal for putting the lenses you need readily to hand when working a location without being bulky or limiting your mobility. A small number of entries this month made judging easier than normal but it was still tricky to pick out of a small number of finalists. We are pleased to award the prize for this competition to Rick Bulger of Wellington, New Zealand for his … Read entire article »

We are please to announce the winner and show all the finalists in the October infrared photography competition. The prize for the October competition is the ThinkTank Photo Speed Freak beltpack bag valued at $130.00. This holds a regular SLR with lens, plus a second large lens, thus making it an ideal bag for a field trip when you want to work light. We had a great range of entrants, from film to unconverted and converted digital cameras and a wide range of subject matter. We received striking landscapes and interesting details. After much deliberation we are pleased to award the prize for this competition to Victor Passapera of Mahopac, NY, USA for his stunning landscape A Touch of Light. Judges felt this was a stunning image that demonstrated the value in being … Read entire article »

We are pleased to announce the winner and finalists in the ThinkTank Photo Architectural Photography competition. Architectural photography is an interesting and varied area of photography, ranging from the wide, external shot to the tight, interior one. As such, we had a similar variety of image subject matter entered in the September competition. We are please to announce that the winner of the ThinkTank Photo Lens Changer 15 is Alan Gaynor of New York City with his image: This striking image makes great use of textural contrast. You can view all the finalists in the architectural photography gallery. Congratulations to all the finalists. … Read entire article »

We are please to announce the winner and finalists in the ThinkTank Photo Amateur Sport Photography competition. The August competition brought in a good number of high quality entrants. Sport photography is not easy, as good examples need to capture action, drama and emotion. With this in mind we are pleased to announce that the winner of the ThinkTank Photo Digital Holster 30 is Liz Hardley of New Zealand with her striking image Last man home: The image captures emotion, energy and action in a most striking image. All the finalists can be viewed in the main gallery for this competition. Our congratulations to all those who entered. … Read entire article »

We are pleased to show the finalists and the winner in the macro photography competition. The July Macro Photography Competition brought a lot of entries. It was a complex one to judge and we ended up having to wait and bring in a couple of other photographers to cast their eyes over the entrants and help us reach a conclusion. The winner of the ThinkTank Photo rotation360 backpack is Russell Stewart, of Queensland, Australia The finalists can be viewed in the macro competition photography gallery. Two special notes about this competition. One is that the submitted work varied massively and we left in some finalists that we were not sure they actually met the macro and closeup requirement but were great images anyway. Since they were not winning we felt it did no harm … Read entire article »

We are pleased to show the finalists and the winner in the long exposure landscape photography competition. The June 2007 Long Exposure Landscape Photography Competition is the first in twelve monthly photography contests where the prize is provided by Thinktank Photo, the fairly new and very innovative camera bag company. The June competition had a relatively small number of entrants but all were quality ones. In the end it came down to choosing between the images of two photographers. We are pleased to announce that the winning entry is by Gloria Wilson with her entry Harvesting. This image struck us as beautiful, inventive and clever. We also loved Gloria’s other two images. We also feel we should acknowledge that a very close second was by Manu Schnetzler, called California Coast. To view all the finalists in … Read entire article »

An amazingly difficult competition to judge has been finally decided. The Lensbaby selective blur competition proved to be very difficult indeed to judge. Not only was there a large quantity of amazingly good work, but when it came to judging it we discovered there were enough different things to look for in blur images that the judges started off all looking for different things. Eventually we sorted this out and got down to a half dozen great images. One image stood out from these. The winning entry is Tuscan Summer by C. David Tobie. This struck us as not only a very effective use of blur but also one in which the blur has assisted in making an iconic image. Congratulations to David, You can view all the finalists in the Lensbaby Competition … Read entire article »

With huge difficulty we award the Epson 1410 printer to a single winner. Results for the Australian Landscape Photography Competition This was a hugely difficult competition to judge. All the people we consulted had the same experience, they found it reasonable easy to get it down to four or five finalists (always the same ones) but then it was hard to choose between them because all were great images and all were strong in various ways. In the end, everyone agreed that it came down to one image. So we award the prize of an Epson 1410 printer to Tony Dimmock of Melbourne for his image Passing Storm 2, shot at Lake Mungo. The judges felt it was a strong and dramatic image, showing patience to get the sky and lighting right, even … Read entire article »

With amazing difficulty we have chosen the winning entry in February and also the Grand Prize winner of the camera conversion by MaxMax.com Results of the February Competition With great difficult we have chosen the February winner on the IR filter from MaxMax.com The February Winner of the IR filter from MaxMax.com is Mitch Dobrowner of California. For all the entries in January, visit the Infrared Photography February Competition Gallery. There were many other images that were very close to winning. The Grand Prize winner of a camera conversion by MaxMax.com is also Mitch Dobrowner of California for this stunning image. Mitch’s image was chosen as the grand prize winner because it is not only a stunning image and tackles unusual subject matter for IR, but also because it makes great use of the … Read entire article »