The waiting is over, and the verdicts are in.
We’re very excited to have picked out the four winners, one
from each of our categories and one grand prize winner, and contacted them all to let them know.
So who won? Well, glad you asked....
In Celebrity
Andy won with one of his pictures of Queen, with Adam
Lambert, playing live. We’ve had a number of live music pictures, and we’d love
to see more, but on this occasion it's this picture that proved to be the most
popular.
In Reality
Pictures of rallies and marches can offer a wealth of photo
opportunities, and Kofi’s set uploaded of last year’s Right to Live march
proved to be the winner in this category. If you’ve been on or are expecting to
be at a similar event soon, big or small, then don’t forget to capture and
share it.
In Locality
Most popular picture doesn’t seem like the right phrase somehow
when we received a couple of pictures of a stranded dolphin that had to
eventually be put down to prevent it suffering further. But the story of its
struggle attracted lots of attention, making sure this local story travelled
further than it could have done otherwise.
And our winner is.....
We received a number of pictures that we felt could have won, and it was only after much deliberation that we settled on our winner. Congratulations then to Greg, for his picture of the Brandenburg Gate during the Festival of Lights in Berlin.
We loved the way this photo combined an iconic building with a moment of news, and proved to us that it's not essential to have pro-equipment to make the news.
During the voting, we had to sort through a number of notable entries though, and these were some of the others that we felt were worthy of highlighting as they kept us debating the winner for so long:
This distinguished gentleman and his ride at The Dirty Burger caught the eye of the team for it's curious subject matter.
Conor Maynard on-set at E4's crush - great shot, and precisely the sort of thing we want to see more of. Backstage, onstage or on the high street, we definitely want to see your celebrity pictures.
The Olympics provided a wealth of images, and this from Rohan was amongst our favourites for it's capture of an action shot like this, but being such a well-documented event may have counted against it in the end.
This Cuban man with a chicken was amongst the candidates for our grand prize winner too. It's a beautifully composed image, but we weren't sure if the chicken in the lap of a man was "news" as such in Cuba. Judging by the looks on their faces it all seems perfectly normal to them.
Congratulations again to all the winners, and if you didn't win this time, keep an eye out for more opportunities in the near future.
And of course, keep making the news!
