Contest #2 – Results

Our judge for Contest #2, Godfrey DiGiorgi was so eloquent is his comments about his selections, I have left them intact. I hope you enjoy them.

Godfrey – thank you for your efforts.

Larry

 

The Winner is

“Guitar Player”
By: Steve Zimmerman

Location: Petoskey Michigan
Equipment Used: Minox IIIs w/Complan Lens
Film & Developer: TMY 400 – D76
Paper & Developer: Fomabrom Variant IV 123 – LD20 Lith

No matter how many times I looked at the submissions and re-sorted the set, this evocative photograph of a guitar player, with its stark and compelling graphic qualities, the use of negative space, and the simplicity of its emotion and message grabbed my eye. I was indeed compelled to place it number one of my choices. It is truly a wonderful photo … I wish I’d made it myself.

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The runner up pick was even harder. I picked three, and which position they play in priority is edged one over the other by so slight a margin that I cannot call it, it changes every time I look at them. They are all more than worthy of Honorable Mention.

Eben Massari
“Joshua Tree”
Shots I took in 2009 with my Minox B. Prints made at Blue Moon Camera. Eben Massari

 

Stunning in every way.

C A Gillette
“Secretariats co racer”
Secratariats co racer -
“A large and liquid eye. . . the swirl of dust around pounding hooves. . .these, then, are the images that move us”….
UNKNOWN
Photo by C A Gillette

Superb and timeless.

Børre Ludvigsen
“Singer”
Singer Wedding at Tambourit, Lebanon 1966 Minox III Børre Ludvigsen

The eyes, the expressions, everything in this photo hangs together in a way that is beyond marvelous. The masters of street photography would be very proud to include this in their portfolios.
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All three of these photos live amongst the very best Minox work I have ever seen. Unfortunately, the ones I do not mention are, from moment to moment as I view them, so good it’s an anxious moment that I’ve called the right ones.
ALL entrants in the 2010 MHS Photo Contest, Session 2, should be extremely proud. None of the entries were anything but wonderful to see, and the only reason to rank them at all is a superficiality borne of having a contest in the first place. I would be honored to have a print of every one of these photos on my wall.