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The Ethos of Access
All IGPOTY categories are meant to encourage positive and creative action with nature in a similar overarching objective. This is of course sharing the beauty and importance of a green planet in the most uplifting and inspiring way possible.
In the last blog post we touched on the theme of . . .
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Capturing Joy
A central tenet of the competition is about making photography as accessible as possible. Accessibility engenders engagement and engagement creates the environment needed to bring out a vast potential of creativity. And this creativity has a huge role in highlighting the wonders and importance of . . .
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A New Visible World
“The first thing to be undertaken in this weighty work,” said Robert Hooke in the preface to “Micrographia”, an investigation of minute bodies published in 1665, “is a watchfulness over the failings and an enlargement of the dominion of the senses.” Hooke realised that our reason and subsequent . . .
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Back to Black
Since Competition 5 we started the year with the Monochrome Photo Project, which became one of our two main annual Photo Projects, encouraging photographers to focus on a particular photographic skill. Fast forward to 2017 in Competition 11 and the IGPOTY team have decided to turn the Monochrome . . .
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Of Birch and Belief
The winner of the International Garden Photographer of the Year Competition 10, Lee Acaster, entranced judges with his challenging yet beautiful photograph of autumnal birch trees, entitled Left. Its depth, detail, character and mystery, elevated a drizzly Snowdonian day into a scene with spiritual, . . .
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