amazing pictures

Amazing Pictures

11. Chris Belcina Cooper City FL United States 1st Place Landscape
A nurse by profession Chris Belcina is a self taught photographer. His winning photo was taken while visiting the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. iPhone Photography has taught me to find my own style and helped me think creatively turning ordinary moments into magical ones capturing details that we often take for granted.
12. Fabio Alvarez Pichincha Ecuador 1st Place Lifestyle
Fabio Alvarez is an Ecuadorian based designer and iPhone photographer. I was enjoying one of the most perfect afternoons of my life with my best friend in Rio de Janeiro. We where surprised to see men playing soccer at the beach all day long. I wanted to capture the passion that Brazilians have for that sport with this image.
13. Yvonne Naughton La Conner WA United States 1st Place Nature
Originally from Wexford Ireland Yvonne Naughton made Washington State her home few years ago. In addition to being an accidental photographer as she calls herself she is a part time pediatrician aspiring ultra runner and mom of two busy pre teens and three energetic hounds. The photo was taken on one of my daily morning dog walks on Snee Oosh beach last October. It was a moody Pacific Northwest day with a thick fog lingering on the beach. There had been heavy dew overnight so the spiderwebs which covered rocks logs and bushes shone like strands of diamonds. As the dogs chased each other on the beach I captured as many different images as I could and began editing as I sat on a log and finished my coffee. Due to the low light I converted everything to black and white and focused on making the ?diamond webs the focus of the image.
14. Jesse Alkire Chicago IL United States 1st Place News/Events
Jesse Alkire is a freelance ACD/Writer/Art Director in Chicago. He grew up in Colorado writing drawing and shooting videos for fun all of which he now happily does for a living. I get inspired creatively when I see something different something daring something with a unique point of view. This photo was shot at the Chicago Air and Water Show which I attend every year (mostly just to take photos). The planes fly so close to the beach that there s ample opportunity to shoot photos with interesting framing and perspectives. As luck would have it I actually saw this shot before it happened and was able to frame it up perfectly as the plane completed the loop.
15. Jose Luis Saez Martinez Valencia Spain 1st Place Others
Jos? Luis an architect living on a beautiful beach town of Spain has been a converted iPhone photographer since 2011. In his photography he strives to capture his architectural surroundings with distinctive mediterranean lights.
16. Andre Malerba Woodstock VT United States 1st Place Panorama
Based in Yangon Myanmar Andre Malerba is a photographer focused primarily on human rights issues. He specializes in long term projects and strives to create strong and straightforward documentary images that are relevant to a wide variety of applications and publishing platforms. His work has appeared in Time.com The Washington Post and Pro Photographer Magazine among others.
17. Song Han Chengdu China 1st Place People
What inspires me most is the whole context of a city rather than a single scene.Taking photos with the iPhone makes it more convenient and flexible to observe and create.
18. Daniele Colombera Los Angeles CA United States 1st Place Portrait
Born and raised near Venice Italy Daniele Colombera currently lives in Los Angeles. He studied Literature and Fine Arts in Rome and works in the movie industry as a digital imaging technician and cinematographer. I took this photo behind the scenes of a fashion shoot. I envisioned the image in black and white because I wanted the graphic component of the fern and its shadow to emboss the face of the girl and focus the eye on her ethereal expression without being distracted by the vivid colors of nature surrounding her.
19. Heather Goss Grand Haven MI United States 1st Place Seasons
Heather Goss of Grand Haven MI races bikes and takes many of her photographs while she trains. This particular shot was during one of the craziest winters we ve seen here in Grand Haven in awhile. Over twelve feet of snow for the season and Lake Michigan iced over all the way across to Chicago. I spent a lot of time riding along the frozen shores of Lake MI in the brutal cold to admire the beauty of it all.The Grand Haven pier is one of my stops along the shore.
20. Cindy Buske Lynnwood WA United States 1st Place Still Life
Cindy Buske is a Seattle based nurse who is passionate about photography. For her photography is an important creative outlet and counterbalance to the structured world of medicine. Her images have been featured in Snap and Mobiography Magazines as well as on Hipstography and in various group exhibitions. As a mobile photographer I love capturing the world around me literally anything that draws my attention can become a subject. I also have a more figurative side that cherishes the work of creating unique portraiture. My images often enter a dreamy ethereal world yet maintain an accessible simplicity.