Posted by Jagdeep Rajput on October 31, 2008 at 10:07 AM
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Posted by Cliff Beittel on October 31, 2008 at 11:09 AM
Jagdeep,
You understand, of course, that the image that wins overall must also win one of the individual categories? So always the overall winning photographer, in this case Steve Winter, will have "two" winning photos, even if it's only one photo. This year, three of the five images you cite were in the Endangered Species category, a category where the judges saw fit to honor only one photo that wasn't Steve Winter's. Unusual, yes, but my reaction is to credit all the winners, not denigrate the process.
Jagdeep, to me this is just fine. If juries have found those images best in each category then photographer/equipment/technique does not matter. Juries have selected best images not those who made them - incidently all those images happened to be from the same photographer Steve Winter. Recently I had an opportunity to spend some time with Steve at Kaziranga National Park in India. He was kind enough to show us some of these images on a large screen. Seeing those images my gut feel says judges have done the right thing here.
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3 repliesYou understand, of course, that the image that wins overall must also win one of the individual categories? So always the overall winning photographer, in this case Steve Winter, will have "two" winning photos, even if it's only one photo. This year, three of the five images you cite were in the Endangered Species category, a category where the judges saw fit to honor only one photo that wasn't Steve Winter's. Unusual, yes, but my reaction is to credit all the winners, not denigrate the process.