Judge – Doug Scott
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- 01i_SkyOverTekapu -Highly commended. This has a nice 3 dimensional feel to it as the warm colours come forward and the cool colours recede. The intersecting lines of cloud and vapour create a well balanced image.
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- 02i_WaitingForThePenguins – Merit. The solid base contributes to a well balanced composition.
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- 03s_HeadingHome – Merit. The natural looking vignette holds and contains the moving birds within the image.
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- 04s_Skyscape – Merit. The warm colours coming forward and the cold colours going back provide a nice 3D effect.
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- 05s_HaringtonPointSI – Highly commended. This panoramic cloud has great visual anchor points at each end. Solid composition.
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- 06s_AFieryFinale – Acceptance. Cropping is a little too tight, but marks for capturing the wonderful light.
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- 07s_BrewingStorm – Highly commended. The potential violence of this scene is well seen and illustrated.
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- 08s_AsTheSunGoes Down – Highly commended. Good composition based on rule of thirds and with a good solid base. Well done capturing the moment. Thoughtful.
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- 09s-Lookingout – Honours. Well thought out and executed. Can’t change, add or subtract anything of significance to improve this image.
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- 10n_ThunderandLight – Honours. Great depth of field front to back, but also from the water up the distant hills to the clouds above. Beautiful.
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- 11n_Precursor Of an Awesome Day – Highly commended. Natures colours captured in well balanced composition.
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- 12 _Home Is Down There Somewhere –
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- 13s-SunRays – Merit. Good use of lighting and solid composition. Competent artist.
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- 14s_UrbanCumulusClouds – Merit. Untidy rooflines replicated in the untidy skyscape. Well seen and executed.
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- 15s_TierraDel_FuegoSunset – Merit. The sun’s fire light reflected under the clouds. Beautiful.
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- 16s_Daybreak – Merit. Wide view panorama but the light draws your eyes back to the middle of the image. Strong.
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- 17s_SunKissedClouds – Merit. Heavy clouds with the sun bursting through. This image teases you to look around the image and holds your attention.
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- 18i_TwilightsWhisper – Merit. A gentle and serene image. Nicely done.
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- 19i_WhispersInCrimson – Merit. A gentle image where the sightlines lead your eyes down to the land mass and back again.
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- 20i_PhotoBombed – Acceptance. A skyscape brought to life by inclusion of its indigenous inhabitants, just as a landscape with people might be. Nice.
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- 21i_MorningReflection – Merit. A game of two halves, lots of depth supported by slow shutter and small aperture. Well done.
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- 22s_NuclearCloud – Highly commended. Extraordinary cloud shapes and lighting over a well composed landmass.
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- 23s_Rainbows – Honours. Good restraint in the cropping to force our attention onto the rainbow and clouds. Better than trying to get it all in and weakening the composition.
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- 24s_AfterTheStorm – Highly commended. Loads of dark brooding cloud to feed our imagination as to the weather experience. An image full of feelings.
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- 25s_SunsetColours – Merit. Last of the light and a gentle composition.
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- 26s_Ominous – Merit. Powerful cloud shape cropped to hold our attention. Well done.
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- 27s_A Southern Sky – Merit. Fluid and almost syrupy clouds anchored to sold earth shapes. Satisfying composition.
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- 28i_RolingIn – Honours. Power image with strong sightlines and strong light directions. Well seen and made.
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- 29i_SkyIsLava – Honours. Monochromatic and a painterly feel-good kind of image.
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- 30n_GlinksGully – Highly commended. Has a lovely short temporary feel as the clouds like these scurry by.
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- 31n_SkyGradient – Honours. Because the heavy silhouettes negate all detail, we are forced to only look at the sky through the negative space. Powerful skyscape image.
