If I remember correctly this was in the last submission 4 years ago. What an irony.
I think it is more that I haven't done something to enter the secret club and just perhaps undercut somebody sometime in the print sales market???! No idea really.
That is a shed load better than the winner this year. I'm also sure I've seen it done really well with the ice before elsewhere...
I've got to say the high quality, and shear quantity of high quality images on your website is mind boggling.
Very high standard you can be proud of, and I hope that work is rewarding in ways other than competition success!
I do wonder when the same names make it into the book every year, sometimes multiple times what is going on. There is a strong argument it's because they are the best photographers consistently entering good stuff, or equally importantly maybe the sort of stuff the judging panel wants to see...
We are told that the people who look through the thousands of entries to decide the shortlist for the judges to look at only have seconds to view each image. I'm guessing these people don't have the names of photographers in front of them, and their selections would include a fair amount of newcomers.
Presumably the judges do have the names in front of them, and if they are already fans of said photographers work maybe it's only natural to favour those images?
I don't know, and I don't mind, but I do get annoyed when stuff objectively fails to meet the criteria for a technically high standard of photography and makes it into the book. And don't tell me it's artistic licence when it's clearly a shortcoming. Subjectively I don't find some of the creative stuff as creative as others think it is!