I’m extremely excited to announce the 41 finalists whose images will go on the next round of the My Life’s a Trip Vacation Photo Contest 2012. We received hundreds of great entries from all over the globe, and the images are truly a world tour of interesting places. There were and very, very few bad photos. A few images had to be disqualified because they were submitted incorrectly, and a few shooters have more than one image progressing to the finals.
There were some stunning images that I loved, but that lacked enough context to make them unable to stand alone in a contest (although they would be publishable and work great in a photo essay). All the photographs I selected gave me an emotional response. They made me want to know more about the destination, or to be along on that trip, or want to see more of the place. I wound up being intrigued by a pillow fight, sandy beaches, mountains, giant redwoods, a smoking rasta, Hawaiian slugs, wet dog smell, saffron robed monks, trains, planes, and the rear view mirrors of automobiles. Harsh winters caught my attention as did African sunsets, fairs, fog, sun flare, rooftops, ice floes, and exotically colored Indian saris as well as moments of everyday life.
I’ve narrowed it the entries to the shortlist of 41 images featured above. Now I will pass these images along to my international panel of fabulous photographer judges Misho Baranovic, Severin Matusek, and Rebecca Adler Rotenberg, who will decide the Grand Prize Winner as well as 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners. I really have no idea who is going to come out the winners– I am pretty sure I can guess which images might appeal most to Misho, Severin, and Rebecca individually, but together? I haven’t a clue! So this is very exciting for me too. In the event of a tie, I will cast the deciding vote.
The photographers whose images are above are listed below (but not in order, as to keep the judging process a bit more anonymous). Congratulations to all of you and thanks so much for participating. Stay tuned for the winners, which should be announced by December 15th (or earlier).
- Alex Hamilton-McLeod.
- Ali Jardine.
- Amber De Grace.
- Amo Passicos.
- Andre Boto.
- Claudia Cooper.
- Dina Maccabee.
- Edi Caves.
- Eva Lim.
- Harsh Wardhan.
- Jayanta Roy.
- Joe Kunin.
- Karen Hanson-Sharp.
- Kevin Chen.
- Kristin Luna.
- Laine Walden.
- Laurel Stewart.
- Lesley Towns.
- Lorenzo Gonzalez.
- Marita Hodges.
- Melissa Vincent.
- Michael Blades.
- Mike G. Abelson.
- Misha Zagorac.
- Natalie Taylor.
- Ravi Kotecha.
- Robin Bengtson.
- Ron Murnik.
- Ryan Hickey.
- Shuhei Nishikawa
- Stephanie Mueller.
- Sudipto Das.
- Taylor Michie.
- Ver Latorre.
- Zoran Stanko.