Ota Awarded in IPA Contest
We are extremely pleased to inform you that Otakar Hevler was awarded in the highly acclaimed International Photography Awards 2010 an Honorable Mention in Fine Art - Abstract category for the winning entry "Ice Detail 2" and also an Honorable Mention in Nature - Landscapes category for the winning entry "X Shape".
International Photography Awards
You may want to see photographs and some interesting details about successful entries below.
Ice Detail #2 - Canon EOS 5D mark II, Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8L USM, ISO 100, f8, 0.8”
Walking around the glacier lagoon Jokursarlon is an amazing experience. It is not difficult to reach this place at all, since the lagoon is located just next to the main highway on the South coast of Iceland. However, this place looks wonderful and spectacular for ordinary visitor; it creates a real challenge for photographers. It is quite difficult to find simple and interesting composition, which would reveal the spirit of this place. After spending whole night walking around the lake and observing hundreds of different icebergs I found this simple composition early in the morning. It might have also been result of my very tired mind, but I found so interesting how these little iceberg were flying in the reflected sky. I was waiting for a while until clouds did cover the sky and provide even more abstract feeling to the picture.
X Shape - Canon EOS 5D mark II, Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM, ISO 100, f16, 3.2”, LEE ND Grad 0.6
South coast of Iceland is very well known for its black sand beaches, which provide endless opportunities for landscape photographers, black and white especially. This particular beach is very close to the Jokursarlon lagoon and majority of the sole icebergs find the end of their long journey there. Some of them are immediately flushed by the ocean and some are returned by hide tide to the beach and slowly melting. This particular morning there were not many of those icebergs on the beach so it was not difficult to find subject of interest? Even though it is not obvious from the photograph, this iceberg was pretty large and I was able to fully hide myself behind it, while Marek was photographing it. This composition came straight to mine mind when I saw this scene. Placing iceberg to the middle of the frame is not exactly what photographic textbooks suggest, but the obvious letter “X” formed by the clouds and iceberg was such strong motivation for me that I did not hesitate to break the rules for a single moment.
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About IPA: The 2010 International Photography Awards received nearly 15,000 submissions from 103 countries across the globe. IPA is a sister-effort of the Lucie Foundation, where the top three winners are announced at the annual Lucie Awards gala ceremony. The Foundation's mission is to honor master photographers, to discover new and emerging talent and to promote the appreciation of photography. Since 2003, IPA has had the privilege and opportunity to acknowledge and recognize contemporary photographers' accomplishments in this specialized and highly visible competition. Visit www.photoawards.com for more details.
