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[old.user4556]

I'm pleased to say that this photo won the 'Your View' category in the Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year 2012 competition.

I was recovering in hospital after surgery last week when I received the email. Pretty surprised for a committed coast hugger. There's a £1,000 prize plus a signed LPOTY book and an invite to the gallery showing in November at National Theatre.

Awesome work and congratulations - well deserved! I feel star struck; it's great having a seasoned pro around.

 

[milou]

Cheers. Seasoned, huh?! Still pretty surprised.

 

[milou]

Outdoor Photographer of the Year – OPOTY 2012

As some of you will know, I've spammed this on Twitter ;o

This international competition organised by Outdoor Photography magazine is now in its third year.

On the 20th December 2012 the editor of Outdoor Photography emailed to say that I was on the short-list for the At the Water’s Edge category in respect of one of my submissions and asked for the original Raw file (the dust, the dust!) and also for a high-resolution version of the final image in addition to a short caption giving details of the subject, location name and country, and the technical details.

On the 10th January 2013 I was very pleased to learn that the image had been chosen as the winner of the category. This news was under embargo until the 16th. I was asked whether I would be attending the Outdoors Show in London so that I could receive my category prize.

On Saturday the 19th I duly went to the Excel centre in the Docklands to attend the Outdoors Show. It was great presentation and all the category winners and runner-ups were printed by The Printspace and displayed around the booth. The overall winner was to be announced at the show...and it was me. Overwhelmed is an understatement!

My image is:



Southbourne, near Boscombe, this evening just before stormy weather.

As for the photo, I had in essence followed a storm from Southampton to Southbourne. Usually these break up across the Isle of Wight ensuring really interesting weather patterns from Southbourne. I arrived a little early and the impending stormy weather can be seen gathering on the extreme left. The good thing about Southbourne is that there are undulations at the shoreline in the sand between the sea groynes and these can produce absorbing sea trails. It was really a case of choosing one of these and ensuring a shutter speed of 0.6 to 2 seconds to produce a pleasing wave pattern.

Please also see: http://www.opoty.co.uk

Cheers

David

 

[Wazzerphuk]

You old dog you. Awards coming out the ears. The big, flappy dog ears.

 

[TdC]

it's almost a painting Milou

 

[Edmond]

Amazing, congratulations. its well deserved

 

[Shagrat]

wow grats Milou. good to know your getting some awards for your photos, they always astound me when i see them.

 

[Fweddy]

I took this yesterday, I'm quite pleased with it.

 

[TdC]

I recently took this while drunk and wandering through the streets of Brussels.

 

[Exioce]

Skies were a bit grey so cropped them out. Will need to go back for sunrise next time:


Ballachulish by markmburns, on Flickr

 

[ECA]

I wish I'd had a nice camera on me for this.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

So do I

 

[Overdriven]

Took this 2 days ago with my phone. 3 days of blue in Paris. Thought it was a nice photo from such as shit device.

 

[Fweddy]

Throddy was out in the woods last night!

Spoiler

 

[milou]

Very pleased to say that I've been invited as an exhibitor at Masters of Vision 2013: http://mastersofvision.co.uk/ so if you're in the Southwell, Nottinghamshire area during August, please drop by.

 

[TdC]

took this pic in Berlin during the weekend. Kinda happy how it turned out

 

[Chilly]

wtf is wrong with her legs?

 

[TdC]

I was going to insta-say 12mm distortion, but they're very long indeed and that's not all due to my fave lens

 

[TdC]

gosh I want to get more experience with night sky photos. this is in my back "garden". 800ISO, f10, 20 sec exposure. at 20 seconds stars already begin to form lines as the earth rotates. the faint line in about the middle of the pic is a plane passing. I live in the middle of a small city, mind you. can't wait for some time to get out of the light pollution!

 

[Urgat]

My first attempts at astro photos.

Saturn, the moon, and the M3 globular cluster.

Saturn is way over exposed so I lost a load of detail, I will know for next time.

 

[Shagrat]

some nice detail on that moon pic.

 

[Nate]

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON

 

[- English -]

Love the astro photos. What do you need to be able to take photos of such?

 

[Urgat]

My equipment is...

Skywatcher explorer 150p scope.
EQ5 pro computerised mount.
Phillips SPC900c webcam, modified to take long exposure pics.
Power tank for the mount.
Laptop to run capture software.
Stacking software to stack images
Processing software to bring the detail out.

 

[TdC]

pretty cool stuff there Urgat

 

[Urgat]

And last nights effort... the M82 Galaxy

20 x 55 second exposures, stacked.

Same equipment as above

 

[TdC]

pic of the hypnocube with my new lens. love how this idea turned out

 

[Shagrat]

Is that the internet? Wheres the red button. It's either that or the BBC have blown the.budget on orac forcthe new Blake's seven series

Nice shot though

 

[Exioce]

gosh I want to get more experience with night sky photos. this is in my back "garden". 800ISO, f10, 20 sec exposure. at 20 seconds stars already begin to form lines as the earth rotates. the faint line in about the middle of the pic is a plane passing. I live in the middle of a small city, mind you. can't wait for some time to get out of the light pollution!


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Try using something like http://www.startrails.de/
Really easy to use, and can get some terrific results even from the city.

 

[TdC]

woo cheers for that dude. I'll give it a go this evening as it seems to be a clear night