February 14th, 2008 Hang on to your nuts by Bob Garas.
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
thanks so much. i didnt realy think i had a chance amounst the wonderful image i have seen here
thank you
bob
You’re welcome Bob. The prize money is on it’s way.
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
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
Thanks a bunch for the info….Will check it out now.
ONE MORE TRY !
Is this site not called,,, ” STOCK ” vault ?!?
Bob’s pic looks ” staged ” to me ?!?!?
please explain !
Yes it is called stockvault. A stock photo can be staged, there’s nothing wrong with that. What exactly is your point?
My point is,,,
staged pics is kind of like, Milli Vanilli,,,
It’s cheating !
STOCK = AS IS / NOT ALTERED /
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.