Digital Camera Photographer of the Year 2008 Announced

winner entry fun bathing by tan choon wee1 Digital Camera Photographer of the Year 2008 AnnouncedDigital Camera Photographer 2008 competition winners have been declared. The winner entry is ‘Fun Bathing’ photographed by Tan Choon Wee of Singapore. The entry that wins the second place is ‘The Rider’s Tail’ that was captured by Chris Mole of the UK.

The winner entry was captured in Bali, Indonesia. Wee revealed that the location, a river dam situated on the outskirts of a local village, which was popular among the kids, apart from being a regulation utility site for the villagers. He shot the pictures using a Nikon D200 Digital Camera. The shutter speed was 1/1000 at f/7.1, ISO speed was ISO 400 and the lens used was a Nikkor 18-200mm lens at 60mm.

57 year aged Wee is a seasoned traveller hailing from Singapore, who has been engaged in serious photography for 25 years. He revealed that photography was not just his subject of interest, but his joy and passion. However, he also did not hide that he could only frame a handful of perfect pictures from a great number of images he shot.

Competitions were held in ten different categories, such as Action & Movement, Landscapes, People & Portraits, Animals, Documentary, Creative Vision, Black & White, Urban, Hidden Britain and Dusk to Dawn. The winners for the different categories were also announced.

Dusk To Dawn category winner is Philippino Manuel Librodo Jr, Yancho Slavov of the UK tops the Hidden Britain category, Briton Phillip Thomas emerges the winner in the Animals category, Gerardo Sabardo of Philippines wins the Ist place in the Documentary categoy, Black and White category I st place goes to Maciej Duczynsk of Poland, Harvey Ringler of Philippines wins the Creative Vision category, and Hans Strand of Sweden wins the Landscape category I st place.

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