In the Winter Digital Image Competition – images with a theme of “Mono graveyard” were entered with two entries per member. As per the previous season’s similar competitions, certificates were awarded for 1st place (Gold), 2nd place (Silver), 3rd place (Bronze), Highly Commended and Commended images.
The images came from our time in Prague in December 2023. On this day we visited the Old Jewish Graveyard.
Leaves and gravestones
Judge’s comments
… what a fantastic place for photography , and I know that your title is important for the image but to me unfortunately the rope sort of spoils the picture to me and what I would probably done is gone round with my knife and just taken off all the rope out
… it looks on the left hand side that it has been cut anyway so probably no-one would have missed it and you would have got a much better picture
… but I like the way you have sort of framed the elements within the picture but I would have like to have tilted the camera up a bit but I don’t know you maybe shooting straight into the sky or a building that you don’t want to see
Stay on the path
Judge’s comments
… I enjoyed this picture apart from the buildings in the background
… the problem with a competition like this is that your photographs as taken to a sort of extent but it may have been a lot of work for you but if yo could imagine this photograph taken in the countryside and there would not be any houses and you had a fairly good sky with it then it would have really come to life but I found that to be a bit unfortunate
… I love the grain and detail on the stone , you could almost crop the this to make what I said [would] work , it is having a point where you cropping too much but it is not going through to the next stage , it almost made it
.. but what I would say to the author is actually try cropping say about a fifth off the top of the picture and see if it does actual improve the image for you