Archive for Photography Competitions

Bernard Pieterse wins the Environment Category in the Youth Competition of the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards

Congratulations to 16 year old Bernard Pieterse who came on tops in the environment category in the youth competition of the Sony World Photography Awards! His image of Deadvlei, Sossusvlei won him the first place in this category! Bernard did a basic photography course with DPC in 2010 and from there on it seems no [...]

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Featured Photographer: Bernard Pieterse

Bernard Pieterse and his friend Herly Greeff did a photography course with me just about a year back. He was barely 15 years old at the time. Over the past year we got used to amazing images by this talented young photographer. Bernard recently won the Visual School’s award for “Upcoming Photographer of the Year”. [...]

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Shot of the Month: October 2011

  October month’s Photo Critic photography competition is shared between two winners; Peter John Martin with his image “Planted Alley Wall“,  and Deirdre Botha with her image “Don’t like this weather!“. They both win free one (1) day workshops from Digital Photography Courses. Click on their images below to view it on Photo Critic…   [...]

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Shot of the Month: September 2011

September month’s Photo Critic photography competition goes to Gustav Brandt for his image “Remembered”. You have to read his comments below, to understand what exactly happened when he got this shot.   Since Gustav won the shot-of-the-month competition he was appointed as an admin for Photo Critic. Unfortunately, he wouldn’t qualify for any other awards. [...]

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Shot of the Month: August 2011

August month’s Photo Critic photography competition goes to Neil Joubert for his image “Soccer City Game Night”. This image wins him a free one (1) day workshop. View Neil’s image on Photo Critic by clicking HERE… “Soccer City Game Night” by Neil Joubert.. Photographers Comments…”A mate of mine and I were busy preparing for a [...]

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Shot of the Month: July 2011

July month’s Photo Critic photography competition goes to Leon Pelser for his image “Dancing Ladybird”. Leon is a master photographer when it comes to macro and close-up photography and has won many photo competitions and his work published in several magazines. This image wins him a free one (1) day workshop. View Leon image on [...]

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Shot of the Month: June 2011

June month’s Photo Critic photography competition goes to Ewald Sadie for his image “Fairytale Descend”. This image wins him a free one (1) day workshop. View Ewald’s image on Photo Critic by clicking HERE…   Photographers Comments… I take a lot of downhill mtb photos and I’m pretty comfortable with my setup and I’ve got [...]

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Shot of the Month: May 2011

May month’s Photo Critic photography competition goes to Pietman Muller for his image “Klikbek”. This image wins him a free one (1) day workshop. View Pietman’s image on Photo Critic by clicking HERE…   Photographer’s Comments… The Shingwedzi area in the Kruger National Park is home to lots of Squirrels that like the many hollows [...]

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