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The Best Stock Photo of 2007 is…

Hang on to your nuts by Bob Garas.

Hang on to your nuts

Congratulation Bob, the winning image is incredible. So were most of the contest submissions this year, and finally I want to express my gratitude to all the photographers that took part.

I also want to thank the guest judges for their work:
Damien van Holten of reaact.net
Darren Hester of pixelperfectdigital.com
Andreas Climent of andreascliment.com

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 14th, 2008 at 7:43 pm and is filed under Contests. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

9 Responses to “The Best Stock Photo of 2007 is…”

  1. February 14th, 2008 at 8:21 pm bob garas says:

    thanks so much. i didnt realy think i had a chance amounst the wonderful image i have seen here

    thank you

    bob

  2. February 14th, 2008 at 8:43 pm Bjorgvin Gudmundsson says:

    You’re welcome Bob. The prize money is on it’s way.

  3. February 16th, 2008 at 5:08 pm joy sheppard says:

    Your photo is FANTASTIC!! The subtitle made it even better! Great shot. How did you do that? Do you have a pet tree frog? Again, I loved the photo….it definitely is the winner. bye now, joy

  4. February 16th, 2008 at 5:56 pm Bjorgvin Gudmundsson says:

    I dug up this old interview with Bob where he explains his methods of shooting bugs and critters. http://www.apogeephoto.com/jan2003/bgaras.shtml

  5. February 17th, 2008 at 9:02 am joy sheppard says:

    Thanks a bunch for the info….Will check it out now.

  6. February 21st, 2008 at 3:09 am yves says:

    ONE MORE TRY !
    Is this site not called,,, ” STOCK ” vault ?!?
    Bob’s pic looks ” staged ” to me ?!?!?

    please explain !

  7. February 21st, 2008 at 9:22 am Bjorgvin Gudmundsson says:

    Yes it is called stockvault. A stock photo can be staged, there’s nothing wrong with that. What exactly is your point?

  8. February 21st, 2008 at 3:08 pm yves says:

    My point is,,,
    staged pics is kind of like, Milli Vanilli,,,
    It’s cheating !

    STOCK = AS IS / NOT ALTERED /

  9. February 21st, 2008 at 3:17 pm Bjorgvin Gudmundsson says:

    If you took the time to read the interview I linked to above, you’d see that Bob does not manipulate his images.

    And I would also like to add that a “stock” photo can surely be altered, manipulated, staged and whatnot.

    Here’s a link to Wikipedia’s definition of “stock photo”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_photo

    The term “stock photo” has nothing to do with how the images are composed. It’s rather a statement of usability.

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