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Picture the World - Results

1 September - 1 December 2005

Dear Woophy friends and participants, finally the long awaited end results of our 2005 'Picture the World' photo contest.

And the winner is...

From the long list of 600 pictures each jury member could select about 40 pictures for the shortlist. This resulted in a shortlist of about 200 pictures with many of the photo's selected by two or more jury members.

On the final judgement day December the 2nd all the photo's from the shortlist were discussed by the jury. In a determination process the selection was narrowed down to 52 pictures having three votes or more or being personal favourites of one of the jury members.

In a lively and organic discussion the last 52 pictures where sorted in to categories and winners where chosen. Since the photo's where judged anonymously some photographers where present with more then one photo.

Winner Overall Category

Mads Iversen
Paris, France

The winner overall category Mads Iversen (amorph) was chosen unanimously. According to Vincent Mentzel this is a real 'world' picture. We see a group of people standing on the earth warmed by the sun. The essence of life on earth.

Also the picture is sufficiently abstract to be a truly overall winner. The people on the picture are not black or white, muslim or jew, poor or rich, they are just people living under the sun seeming small from above and sharing the same earth.

The long shadows and its original point of view made that the picture was noticed by all the jury members immediately as a potential winner.

Nature

1st prize, Stefan Sonntag Phumi Spean Angkor, Cambodia In the category nature Stefan Sonntag (zerega) won with his picture of Phumi Spean Angkor; Cambodia. Other then most nature pictures on the shortlist this picture is strongly related to culture. It is this tension between the tree and the temple which gives this picture also a symbolic meaning.

2nd prize, Izan Petterle Delfim Moreira, Brazil Again a picture like a painting won a prize, this time by Izan Petterle from Brazil. It is a landscape with a dog from Delfim Moreira Brazil. Like the winner in the category nature this is also more then just a beautiful scenery. The (domesticated) dog provides a nice story connecting the nature with culture again. The surrealistic light and scenery add to the atmosphere of an old English hunting scene painting.

Culture

1st prize, Peter Voerman Volterra, Italy The winner in this category is Peter Voerman (Fotoworks) from The Netherlands for his picture of a girl in a church in Volterra Italy. The jury was struck by the beauty and innocence of this girl in the church. Also some of the jury members saw parallels between this picture and seventeenth century paintings.	2nd prize, Stefan Sonntag Aleppo, Syrian Arab In the category culture Stefan won (only) a second prize. The prize for the picture citadel of Aleppo, Syrian Arab must also be seen as appreciation for the whole series of his Middle East pictures.

People

1st prize, Stefan Sonntag Acomayo, Peru In the category people the jury choose the truck driver helpers (bomberos) in Acomayo, Peru. It is a beautiful picture in itself, dynamic full of movement, but also a very exotic subject. This must be one of the most dangerous professions in the world.

2nd prize, Edwin S. Loyola Batangas, Phillipines Edwin S. Loyola (eslwinshot) from The Philippines took care of the rough edge among the prize winners. Although the picture is very small and a little grainy it is so strong that it convinced the jury to take a second look and replace the original second prize. The picture combines in a very special way the gloominess of life on earth with the optimism of playing children.

Prizes

Congratulations to all the prize winners!

The winner overall category Mads Iversen won a Hexachrome museum quality print of your picture on canvas (50x70 cm, 20x28 inch) by krachtstroom.nl and a signed copy of the book 'The Earth from above' by Yann Arthus-Bertrand.

First prize winners won a Hexachrome museum quality print of their pictures on canvas.

Second prize winners won a Luxurious linen bound photo album of their own pictures printed by albumprinter.com and a signed copy of the book 'The Earth from above' by Yann Arthus-Bertrand.

Honourable mentions

Congratulations to all the honourable mentions, in some cases your pictures where really really close from winning. It was nail biting to see some of these pictures being moved form the winner pile to the honourable mentions pile back and forward. Please send us your details so that we can send you some small rewards.

Arjan Dronten, Netherlands	Deevus Jasper, Canada	mari Xi'an, China	zerega Ramm, Jordan	takacs tamas Komarom, Hungary
godlike Rottenburg, Germany	Jibek Moscow, Russian Federation	Ruud van Ruitenbeek Manchester, United Kingdom	Wilfred van der Vegte Osaka, Japan	photobag Phan Thiet, Viet Nam
GuyC San Lucas, Mexico	photobag Sanaa, Yemen, Republic of	Zbigzter Vik, Iceland	Bogers The Hague, Netherlands	Jeroen Krol Rotterdam, Netherlands
slataviepus Philadelphia, United States	eslwinshot San Carlos, Philippines	mmi Pagan, Burma	jose barragan Cajamarca, Peru	Cloe Musker New Delhi, India
Max Kostromine Vancouver, Canada	Max Kostromine Garibaldi, Canada	Ron Timmermans Paal, Netherlands	Goran Stamenkovic Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro	Frans mollenbrok Kinderdijk, Netherlands

Most Travelled Photographer

There can be no doubt about who is the winner of the Travel Photographers Network membership drora from Israel. Not only he is the most travelled photographer on Woophy but he is also the most photographing traveller on our site. Congratulations drora.

Acknowledgements

Thank you all the Woophy members and aficionados who uploaded great pictures and helped us creating the long list through the forum.

Thank you Leonarda Kemink who provided us with the most beautiful meeting space in Amsterdam for our final jury gathering: De Kleine Werf.

Thank you albumprinter.com, krachtstroom.nl and travel photographers network for sponsoring the prizes.

Thank you Woophy volunteers and staff for all the effort.

And last but not least thank you, Ron, Thesi, Vincent, Hoyte and Jim for being our very professional and dedicated jury.

At Last

We hope you enjoyed the contest as much as we did, it was really great organizing it though a little much work for a small organisation like ours. After all we feel that the best pictures won but we also want to express our great appreciation to all the photographers who didn't win. I think even our long list of 600 pictures wasn't long enough to contain all the potential winners. Thanks and we hope you join our 2006 competition 'A cross section of daily life on earth in 12 months'.