PSNZ Canon Online Results from Round 1, 2021 THE WINNER OF the first round for 2021 is Lindsay Stockbridge LPSNZ from the Whanganui Camera Club. Lindsay is the sub-editor of CameraTalk. The judge is Craig Phillips LPSNZ who is an accredited PSNZ judge.You can find more about Craig at kceeimages.wordpress.com. This was a great start to the 2021 Canon Online competition, with a large number of entries of a standard that continues to impress. It is also good to see the number of entries for later rounds building up. I noted that most of the names in this round’s results are new to the top ten. It seems that the top placings are widely shared, so anyone has a chance of winning. This competition is free for individual PSNZ members to enter and has an attractive trophy for each round that you can keep. Top that off with an annual aggregate trophy, with one point for every round entered, so it is hard to see why you wouldn’t enter. Enter online in the members area of the PSNZ website: https://photography.org.nz/ Paul Willyams APSNZ AFIAP MNZIPP Canon Online Coordinator
Comments from the Judge Thank you for the opportunity to judge this competition. It was not easy to select just ten images from the 151 images submitted. There was a wide variety of subject matter and presentation, all of an excellent standard. The selections were chosen because of the impact they had on me personally, taking into account the objective of the Canon Online competition - to foster creativity. When I view an image, I am looking for an emotional connection/reaction, some sort of communication that I feel between me and the image. While I also look for a composition that supports the image, it is not as important to me that an image needs to be technically perfect. Rather, what I am looking for in the composition is how the photographer has arranged the building blocks of composition to support and complement the story and feeling of the image.
Entries for Round 2 close on 25 April 74
