After pouring through hundreds of creative and enchanting photos from photographers all over the globe, we are excited to announce the winners of the Joby Photo Contest!
(Check out the the winners’ loot below.)
So, without further ado…the Grand Prize Winner for his breathtaking and creatively constructed view of the Eiffel Tower is: Daniel Remler.
Daniel Remler
As part of his prize, Daniel’s photo will be displayed in the June 2010 edition of Popular Photography.
In his own words, this is how Daniel, a German freelance photographer, was able to capture the shot:
The pictures were taken during my France trip last year in December. On this trip I took my Canon 40D SLR, the Gorillapod and my little Canon IXUS, just in case.
Unfortunately this ‘case’ eventually happened. My SLR suddenly didn’t work anymore and it turned out the shutter was broken. So I used the little IXUS for the rest of the journey. Those circumstances made this image actually possible because the upper platform of the Eiffel tower is surrounded by a close-meshed fence. I would never have got my SLR through it, but the little IXUS was perfectly made for this shot.
I saw the giant shadow of the tower and thought, this view is awesome. I wanted to link the shadow with its origin: the tower. But I would have needed a super wide angle lens to capture the whole scene. So instead I decided to take a series of 5 single images which I would later stitch together to a panorama at my PC. I used my Gorillapod which I winded around the railings and then step by step tilted my camera.
At home I edited the ready stitched image in Photoshop where I removed the saturation of everything but the river. I also sharpened the picture and increased the contrast by using the curves.
Bravo Daniel!
And now, for our Runners Up:
Maggi Dandar
Kyaw Kyaw Winn
Pete Leong
Sudip Roychoudhury
Darren Constantino
Honorable Mentions:
Peter Talke
Elizabeth McKee
Grand Prize Winner
- Our entire Gorillapod assortment! (Gorillapod Original, SLR, SLR-Zoom, Ballhead, and Focus)
- Your photograph published in Popular Photography!
- Featured placement on Joby.com
Runners Up (5)
- Gorillapod SLR-Zoom + Ballhead
- Gorillamobile
- Your photograph showcased on Joby.com
Honorable Mentions
- Gorillapod Original
- Your photograph on Joby.com
Wow! Great choice of a winner. I love the shadow of the tower. And thank for choosing mine as a runner up. I very much appreciate it.
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WOW! Those are some amazing photos!!!
I am one of the “Runners Up” winner.My name is Kyaw Kyaw Winn ( Myanmar).
I am wonderful for it but I don't get any e-mail, mail and contact from them.
Hi Kyaw Kyaw,
Congrats on being a runner up! Your prize should be in the mail soon.
I am one of the runners up and was not notified I had won, happened to come across this when surfing for tripods….have the winners been notified as of yet?
Maggi Dandar
The prizes are in the mail and should be arriving at your doorstep soon. Winners were announced via the blog (ie above) and on the site per the contest guidelines. Congrats!
I love these photos – especially that great Christmas photo of Seattle's Space Needle. It has always been a goal of mine to travel to Seattle and see this icon of the 1960's. It is so “George Jettson-esque”. I am sure there are millions of photos of the Space Needle, but somehow Ms. McKee seems to have captured it in a way that I have never seen before. Well done.
Pedro Morales
Good choice of winners! That bottom one gave me a huge, huge flashback to my very favorite Elvis movie “It Happened at the World's Fair” which, of course debuted in 1963. While the plot did not exactly involve Christmas, there was a wonderfully romantic scene between Elvis and his co-star Joan O'Brien at the base of the Space Needle, and the holiday motif of Ms. McKee's fine photo couldn't help but give me yet another rush thinking about his still-a-classic Christmas album and my favorite of all time song/carol, “Blue Christmas”. Thank you for the memories!
I'm proud to have won the contest! My prizes were in the mail today – thanks so much JOBY!
And I love the runner-up photos, especially the one of Darren Constantino – an amazing perspective!
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