Photographer of the Year 2009 Winners - My Picks!
One of the most popular online photography contest, Digital Camera 2009 had just finished and the overall winners are now published at PhotoRadar.

Overall winner of ‘Photographer of The Year 2009′ POTY 2009, Partners by Bragi J. Ingibergsson from Iceland.
Taken with Canon EOS 5D with Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM lens at 24mm; ISO 125; 1/400 sec at f/8
You may see all winners on each category at Photo Radar. Here are some of my picks purely based on how I love the way it captured..
Landscape :

New Year’s Frost by Gary McParland, UK
This is Britain :

British Day Out by Russell Francis, UK
Peoples & Portraits category :

Fearless by Janet Shui Kee Yim, Hong Kong
Canon EOS 30D with Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM lens at 100mm; ISO 160; 1/200 sec at f/5.6
Man Made :

Bladerunner by Brian Stevenson, UK
World in Motion :

Goal by Janet Shui Kee Yim, Hong Kong
Canon EOS 1D Mark III with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS lens at 82mm; ISO 200; 1/400 sec at f/5.6
Planet Earth category :

OPTICAL by Laura Zinetti, Italy
Fashion :

Red Fashion by Eduard Stelmakh, Ukraine
Balck & White :

Don’t Give Up by Janet Shui Kee Yim, Hong Kong
Canon EOS 1D Mark III with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at 24mm; ISO 500; 1/200 sec at f/4.5
Destination Everywhere :

Look Left by Mike Sabarre, Philippines
Digital version :

A Dali Dream by Karen Ilagan, Philippines
Below are the winners for Young Photographer of the Year 2009
10 years and under

Poverty’s Children by Nathan Brown, Cambodia
Canon EOS 300D with Canon EF 35-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens at 105mm; ISO 800; 1/200 sec at f/5.6
11 to 14 years

Sea Through the Window by India Sparacia, UK
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8 at 10.4mm; ISO 100; 1/250 sec at f/5
15 to 17 years

Breath It In by Tina Sun, New Zealand
Sony Alpha a200 with Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 lens at 50mm; ISO 400; 1/200 sec at f/5.6
Which one would be your picks?





















