Here are the 30 fantastic winning photos from the International Garden Photographer Of The Year. IGPOTY continues to be one of the world’s most respected photography competitions and exhibition, particularly within the genres of garden, plant, flower and botanical photography.
The Overall winner of this competition won by June Sharpe for her photo “Birdscape”. June talks about this photo “The layered branches of this conifer reminded me of the dancing cranes often featured in Japanese woodcuts. In post-processing, I added a fill layer and used exclusion blending mode to alter the colours and enhance the feeling of movement and sense of the ‘birds’ dancing in a fantasy woodland.”
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#1. Overall Winner: ‘Birdscape’ by June Sharpe
Judges Comments: “When judging pictures we are hoping to be embraced, and taken on a journey, within a story. June’s picture delivers. There is an abundance of interest and depth which fires the imagination. The soft, new growth transforming between plant and feathers – it is both enticing and enchanting. We are pulled into and beyond the symbolic dancing cranes, and embraced by their ‘wings’, to a place of hope and peace. It is rare that one can connect with nature and feel such compassion.”
#2. Abstract: 2nd Place – ‘Torn Curtain’ by Ian Gilmour
#3. Abstract: 3rd Place – ‘For Steve’ by Laurie Peek
#4. Beautiful Garden: 1st Place – ‘Autumn Sunset’ by Annie Green-Armytage
#5. Beautiful Garden: 2nd Place – ‘Lauren Springer’s Home Garden’ by Claire Takacs
#6. Beautiful Garden: 3rd Place – ‘Morning Has Broken’ by Manuela Göhner
#7. Breathing Spaces: 1st Place – ‘The Lone Tree’ by Andrea Graham
#8. Breathing Spaces: 2nd Place – ‘Springtime Blossoms’ by Mara Leite
#9. Breathing Spaces: 3rd Place – ‘Cold Country Walk’ by Andrew Fletcher
#10. Plants & Planet: 1st Place – ‘Mangrove Tree (From Underwater)’ by Leena Roy
#11. Plants & Planet: 2nd Place – ‘Skeletons’ by Gigi Williams
#12. Plants & Planet: 3rd Place – ‘Cold Water Garden’ by Leena Roy
#13. The Beauty of Plants: 1st Place – ‘Ethereal Nigella’ by Angi Wallace
#14. The Beauty of Plants: 2nd Place – ‘Cosmos ‘Apricotta” by Molly Hollman
#15. The Beauty of Plants: 3rd Place – ‘Fading Beauties’ by Marlene Finlayson
#16. The World of Fungi: 1st Place – ‘Icy Craterium’ by Barry Webb FRPS
#17. The World of Fungi: 2nd Place – ‘Honey Fungi’ by Tony North
#18. The World of Fungi: 3rd Place – ‘Ink Factory’ by Erik Nevels
#19. Trees, Woods & Forests: 1st Place – ‘Fire & Ice’ by Drew Buckley
#20. Trees, Woods & Forests: 2nd Place – ‘Ghost Oak’ by Stephen Davis
#21. Trees, Woods & Forests: 3rd Place – ‘In a Forest of Gold’ by Honey J Walker ARPS
#22. Wildflower Landscapes: 1st Place – ‘Flower Meadows of the Plateau’ by Albert Ceolan
#23. Wildflower Landscapes: 2nd Place – ‘Tuscan Poppies’ by Julian Elliott
#24. Wildflower Landscapes: 3rd Place – ‘Rhossili Pastels’ by Drew Buckley
#25. Wildlife in the Garden: 1st Place – ‘Tasty’ by Fernando Avanka
#26. Wildlife in the Garden: 2nd Place – ‘In the Mood for Love’ by Minghui Yuan
#27. Wildlife in the Garden: 3rd Place – ‘Camouflage’ by Asa Fredh Asa Fredh
#28. Wildlife in the Garden: Finalist – ‘In the Centre of Spider Art’ by Katarzyna Załużna
#29. Wildlife in the Garden: Finalist – ‘Lurking in the Shadows’ by Pepe Badia Marrero
#30. Wildlife in the Garden: Finalist – ‘Face-to-Face’ by Pepe Badia Marrero
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