COMPETITION Out of 4035 entries in the 10th International Landscape Photographer Of The Year competition, Western Australian photographer Tony Hewitt was eventually judged the overall winner with his portfolio of four remarkable aerial abstract images. However, it was a close run thing, as the competition's chairman of judges, Peter Eastway, explains.
“In our tenth year, the challenges of determining the overall Photographer Of The Year revealed themselves only too clearly. We had a dead heat between two portfolios, each receiving two first places and having the same preference votes. Under our rules, the stalemate is resolved by asking the fifth judge (the only judge who hadn't scored one of these portfolios in first place) to cast the deciding vote.”
Subsequently, Canadian photographer Andrew Mielzynsk came a very close second, with…
