Award Winning Photos

Those of you who don't read my post may think I'm so full of myself that I label my photos award winning. I wish I were so good but I'm not and I'm not referring to my photos in the title, but the ones I photographed.

This was an exhibition I visited in November 2023, almost two years to the day and there's a good bunch of photos I haven't posted yet, so today I'd like to show you what it takes to become an award winning photographer.

Judit Vántsa - Express Train To Bereck - First applicant award

Imagine participating at a competition for the first time and winning. If you look at the photo, you can see it is well deserved as well. Obviously you may have a different favorite, if you could see the other applicants, but we can't. I love this photo and it's amazing the photographer could capture the train too, to break the colors.

Barna Böjte-Beyer - Stations

May be a drone photo, or just taken from the top of a hill, I can't be sure, but it's really good. That serpentine looks really good from the spot the photo was taken and it is well framed. The building looks like a church and couldn't be at a better place.

Barna Böjte-Beyer - Transylvanian Helikon

Same photographer, different photo, most likely drone photo as the chance to capture such a scene is slim to none. I like how the photographer choose the angle.

Barna Böjte-Beyer - Where not even the hunter is going - Rákóczi - Bornemisza Castle

Same photographer, different castle and I want to go and live there for a week or two. Imagine the silence.

Writing down these thoughts makes me think of how many castles I photographed, or photographs of castles and posted about them. Now I should go back, check my posts and make a list with all the places I said I'd visit and try to visit them. What an adventure it would be.

Barna Böjte-Beyer - Székelycsóka

These church photos may seem a bit strange, especially this type, that features small churches and not as pompous as the ones in big cities, but at some point these can have historical value. If something happens to the church (and so many times it does), these photos are testimony of the past. So I look at them with different eyes and also value history and cultural heritage in them.

Elemér Mezei - Inside the church

Even though it doesn't look like, this church is more valuable than you think. It looks kind of bad, or in not a good condition, but I'll explain. Transylvania has a long history and not at all peaceful. Iver the centuries, there were many attacks, religion based as well, so places got taken over by different nations/people along with churches. This is why so many churches got repurposed, meaning these beautiful frescos had been covered, painted over and only discovered decades, centuries later. Restoration work can always help, but it's not going to be like a new one, so keep this in mind when judging the place.

Erikah Simon - Gateway detail from Mera - 2nd place "Our Cultural Heritage"

I love this and I hope you do too. How can you not love it? Wood carving is something I admire and when it comes to painted wood, I love it even more. I'd love to know how or better yet, where this photo was taken, to see the sharp contrast between old and new, with my own eyes. It's a very good photo.

László Kovács-Dócz - Organ

I know this concert hall very well, it's a beautiful one, but taking such a photo requires some skills and opportunity. You need access to the hall, when it's empty and you need to find the perfect spot. I love this photo.

Béci Vajda - Blue flags

Another fantastic photo, which has a lot to do with luck and opportunity. Photographing insects is not my style, but this is more than that. This is a composition created by nature and the photographer took the occasion to make it eternal.

*István Magdó - Let's dream big - 2nd place "Macro Photo"

As I said, insect photos are not my thing, but this is a fantastic one. I'm not going to say more about it, I'll let you tell me what you see here. This is the riddle of the day :)

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