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Chief Judge Andrew Lawson says:
"As an IGPOTY judge you look at several thousand shortlisted images. All the time you're on the look-out for that special picture - that extra bit different. Certain photographs stand out and you put them on the shortlist for group judging. This is when the judges meet, compare notes and the wrangling begins. Each of us promotes his or her favourites and we are all prepared to be convinced. It is reassuring how this process distils into the final picture choice - the best pictures consistently come out of it.
The standard of entries was incredibly high, and sometimes there was only a whisker between a shortlisted picture and one that was not . We tried to take account of the fact that a simple graphic image, like a plant close-up, may look striking as a preview on a monitor, but a complex garden picture has a slower fuse and may only reveal its depth when enlarged to full screen. It is a fact of life when you enter this competition - and I hope you will - your picture first has to attract the judge's eye and then it must pack a bigger punch when enlarged. I would say that all our winners share this quality."
The 2010 competition will be judged over a six-week period in January and February 2010. The judges are able to use the internet to view all entries, as well as the prints that were submitted. All digital photographs are able to be viewed on one of a suite of calibrated monitors running Photoshop and Bridge, in controlled viewing conditions.
The judges will comprise a panel of highly acclaimed industry professionals, including:
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Andrew Lawson is a well-known and highly respected
garden photographer whose pictures have been reproduced
extensively in books and magazines worldwide. Andrew
is a keen gardener himself and his pictures are informed
by a deep knowledge of the subject. He wrote and illustrated
'The Gardener's Book of Colour' published by Frances
Lincoln, and he has provided pictures for numerous
books including those written by Rosemary Verey, Penelope
Hobhouse, Roy Strong and HRH The Prince of Wales. |
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Clive
Nichols is one of the world's most successful flower
and garden photographers. He has won many awards for
his work and in 2005 was voted 'Garden Photographer
of the Year' by the Garden Writers Guild. His work has
appeared in countless magazines, books and calendars
throughout the world and he is in constant demand as
a lecturer and teacher, running many workshops for the
Royal Horticultural Society. He has appeared on British
and Japanese TV, sits on the RHS Photographic Committee
and is a judge for the 'Garden Photographer of the Year'
competition. |
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Eddie
Ephraums is a well-known landscape photographer
and workshop leader and author of books such as Creative
Elements and the Nude Photography Notebook. He is Argentum's
consultant editor of photography, helping to create
such books as Joe Cornish's First Light and, most recently,
the acclaimed collaborative book project Working the
Light. Through his own publishing consultancy Envisage
Books (www.envisagebooks.com),
he works with photographers, helping them translate
their ideas into published form. Pursuing his belief
that everyone can make a book, he devised a What's Your
Book? competition, hosted by Black & White photography
magazine (www.whatsyourbook.com). |
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Heather Angel began photographing when she used a camera to document marine life; this led to a career change and her images appearing worldwide.
As a wildlife photographer Heather has been at the forefront of wildlife photography in Britain for more than a quarter of a century. She has tutored the popular annual plant photography course at Kew since 1990. Heather manages her own image library (www.naturalvisions.co.uk) and has written 54 books – now working on Wildlife at Kew. She has received many awards including an honorary DSc from Bath University and a professorship from Nottingham University. Heather was President of the Royal Photographic Society from 1984-86.
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Tony Kirkham With his roots firmly in the world of Trees, Tony is now Head of Arboretum and Horticultural Services at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where he looks after an amazing 14, 000 specimens.
Author and Editor of countless publications on the subject trees, Tony is also the Presenter of the acclaimed BBC series, "Trees that Made Britain". He has just finished the second series. With this wealth of experience, he is ideally placed to be our Guest Judge for the "Trees" category.
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Laura Giuffrida. With a background in art and design including photography, she has spent much of her career working at Kew Gardens where her main responsibilty has been the management of Kew's exhibition programme. Examples include the development of the 'Plants+People exhibition, and the Orange Room at the Millennium Seed Bank, Wakehurst Place. She is also responsible for delivering temporary exhibitions at both sites, these include 'Gardens of Glass - Chihuly at Kew', and the co-curation of 'Moore at Kew'.
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Victoria Skeet has twenty years experience in researching and editing images for commercial photo libraries, national newspapers, books and magazines. For the past nine years she has been working for The National Trust, commissioning and editing images of some of the world’s most beautiful gardens and plant collections. Her knowledge and love of gardens is not limited to the grand and formal, as a dedicated allotment-holder she is just as passionate about the small, the humble and the much-loved plot. |
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Damien Demolder has worked for Amateur Photographer for over ten years, moving from writing interviews and technique to camera and equipment reviews, until he become editor in 2006. An obsessive photographer as well as a journalist, his interests span every major photographic subject - for which he uses a wide range of ancient and modern film and digital cameras. |
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Tamsin Westhorpe is editor of The English Garden Magazine which is highly acclaimed for its use of garden photography. She has worked as a garden writer and editor for nearly 15 years and has contributed or worked for some of the largest gardening titles. She has considerable experience in commissioning and styling covers and features. Tamsin prides herself in being able to pick the right image for the right situation.
She has worked with and commissioned some of the most prestigious garden photographers in the UK. The selection of images is part of her everyday life so she fully understands which are preferred by readers and which images reflect the seasons, the garden or the atmosphere of a situation. Photography allows Tamsin to share some of the most incredible plants and gardens through the pages of her magazine.
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