Sean Lee's Winning Image for the 2015 Trek Photo of the Year Powered by SRAM:We gave you the top 32 images from 2015 and you've voted for the winner and ultimately the 2015 Photo of the Year, whom will be divvying up the $10,000 in CASH from our sponsors:
Trek Bikes and
SRAM.
Check out the voting page for all the results from each bracket.The 5th annual Pinkbike Photo of the Year Contest is a wrap and Sean Lee will be joining the ranks of John Wellburn, Toby Cowley, Sterling Lorence and Christoph Laue in the PB Photo of the Year Hall of Fame.
How Did Photo Of The Year Work?From thousands of nominated photos, 32 were selected to pit against each other in a college basketball bracket-like showdown. At that point it was up to you, the users, to vote on the match-ups. The photos with the most votes moved on to the next round. So 32 photos narrowed down to 16, then 8, 4, 2 until there was a single photo deemed the 2015 Trek Photo of the Year Powered by SRAM.
What all was at stake? $10,000 Cash•
Sean Lee will receive a check for $5000• Lee Trumpore will receive a check for $3000
• Christoph Laue and Simon Nieborak will each receive a check for $1000
Thanks to
Trek Bikes and
SRAM.
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@lunatyk
unless I won the Remedy then leave them like they are.
www.giant-bicycles.com/en-ca/bikes/model/reign.advanced.1/24703/89691
Carbon reign advanced 1 for around 5K canadian. seems good to me!
top of the line reign alu for 5500 also seems sick.
www.giant-bicycles.com/en-ca/bikes/model/reign.1/24702/89692/#features
evil-bikes.com/products/the-following
Good luck building the glory.
Specialized, Giant, and Trek are NOT expensive. They are the standard by which all others are judged. Note that the GOOD boutique brands (Intense, Pivot, SC, and the like) are just as expensive and in many cases even more so. YT is cheaper, yes. But then Chevys are cheaper than Cadillacs, VWs are cheaper than Audis...you get the picture.
Evil is absolutely notorious for broken frames and long replacement times.
Pick another example if you want, there's tons of other carbon/X1 bikes cheaper than $6k. The Giant is just a shit deal for an alu frame with X1 at $6k. I that every other alu/X1 bike on the market is cheaper than $6k
It was a tough job to pick a winner (48 : 52 result proves that) but I believe that the two photos that made it to the finals were really the best, considering the topic of the contest.
Indeed, only in some photos they're pretty damn difficult to find unless you know you should look for them...
(I think if the contest takes place on Pinkbike, the topic is quite obvious even without being explicitly stated.)
As the poster above you said
"No other photo in the comp captured the 'why we ride' factor as well as this one did. If anyone ever asks you that, show them this photo! Well done Sean." - @holdogs
Nailed it.
I need a laugh...not this buddy, buddy feel good stuff.
I kept wanting to vote for both, but that dust bomb was juat so uniquely awesome plus seeing the filming of it, I had to vote for Trumpore. Juat an epic shot and what must have been a ruined camera kit after.
@brule, Maybe next year, each photo entry should have its back story and a 2:30 length video clip. A blend of the "photo epics" and "banger 1 shot".
Read the article:
www.pinkbike.com/news/photo-of-the-year-2015-five-minutes-with-the-finalists.html
Well done Sean... And well done Lee Trumpore!! Both your images truly made me want to go out and ride!!
:-(
Congratulations to the winner. This photo has been my desktop wallpaper for the last month or so. Simply breathtaking.
www.pinkbike.com/video/409609
In semi-finals, there were two photos, that show an awesome air, with an awesome rider. And in the end, the enduro-trail picture is a winner (ofc photo is great, but... it didn't show awesomeness of mountain biking IMO). Yes, sunset (sunshine) shot, refined colours and second plane, but there is no action at all. I'm gonna go back year earlier.
Enduro trend is visible everywhere now, but it is not interesting on photos (think of a guy, doing the 36 off the cliff in the same scenario, with a sun between his legs).
Im just... dissapointed. Two semi-finals pictures was unbelievable, but they didn't make their way up the contest, being definately better, than the winner- because there is huge air, and so much action... sad, sad.
Plus beautiful photo!
you just had to milk a little more suspense out of this prize !
I voted to this Photo
trend?
No offence, this one is also nice, but the other one's better