The 2017 Photo of the Year Winner is…
Robb Thompson's Winning Image for 2017 Photo of the Year.
![When the weather does amazing things it s all about finding a way to make the most of it. Even though we got completely soaked and I couldn t see through my viewfinder it s moments like these that we all live for.]()
We gave you the top 32 images from 2017 and after more than 375,000 votes were cast you, our readers, have voted for the winner and ultimately chosen the 2017 Photo of the Year powered by SRAM. The winner will be divvying up the $10,000 in CASH with the top four.
The 7th annual Pinkbike Photo of the Year Contest is a wrap and Robb Thompson will be joining the ranks of Sean Lee, John Wellburn, Toby Cowley, Sterling Lorence, Christoph Laue and Steve Shannon in the Pinkbike 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 2017 Photo of the Year Powered by SRAM.
What was at stake? $10,000 Cash
• Robb Thompson will receive a check for $5,000
• Dave Trumpore will receive a check for $3,000
• Satchel Cronk and Filip Zuan will each receive a check for $1,000
There was also a Voter Prize this year. The winner of the SRAM Code RSC Brakes with Centerline rotors and a SRAM GX Eagle drivetrain is @Nicksand5. Congratulations Nick!
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Thanks to SRAM.
We'll post an interview with Robb Thompson next week.
MENTIONS: @SramMedia / @robb / @davetrumpore / @FilipZuan / @satchscratch
We gave you the top 32 images from 2017 and after more than 375,000 votes were cast you, our readers, have voted for the winner and ultimately chosen the 2017 Photo of the Year powered by SRAM. The winner will be divvying up the $10,000 in CASH with the top four.
Check out the voting page for all the results from each bracket.
The 7th annual Pinkbike Photo of the Year Contest is a wrap and Robb Thompson will be joining the ranks of Sean Lee, John Wellburn, Toby Cowley, Sterling Lorence, Christoph Laue and Steve Shannon in the Pinkbike 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 2017 Photo of the Year Powered by SRAM.
What was at stake? $10,000 Cash
• Robb Thompson will receive a check for $5,000
• Dave Trumpore will receive a check for $3,000
• Satchel Cronk and Filip Zuan will each receive a check for $1,000
There was also a Voter Prize this year. The winner of the SRAM Code RSC Brakes with Centerline rotors and a SRAM GX Eagle drivetrain is @Nicksand5. Congratulations Nick!
Thanks to SRAM.
We'll post an interview with Robb Thompson next week.
MENTIONS: @SramMedia / @robb / @davetrumpore / @FilipZuan / @satchscratch
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It’s not just the composition, timing and light that make this photo epic. It’s because I can see myself in a similar ‘story’ both in my past and in a wished for future. Epic shot!
Composing a picture like this and getting the shot are so difficult- hats off to a work of genius
Well done Robb, really great work! Thanks PB for doing this contest, really great to see you pushing photographers to do their best.
There is much more than just the photos from the photographers that follows the bare basic principals, stuff we have seen way to much of in past contests.
Maybe PB needs to have different categories: action, landscape, lifestyle?
Anyway, this was one of my favourite as well.
Nice to see that despite all the technical talk and ever changing standards, riders are a bunch of poetics idealists that sunflowers can bind together
Robb Thompson congratulations!
That photo very nicely captures the
fleeting feeling of those moments spent up in the hills with good friends, when you can actually manage to overcome the weight of responsibilities and commitments that our lives demand of us and break into that amazing flow palace of now.
You never know exactly when you are going to hit a day like this, but you sure savour every dynamic lovely second of it when you do.
That is my take on it anyhow.
Well done man!
I suggest this one to go straight to 2018 POY contest!
m.pinkbike.com/photo/15608269
Oh an there's some bikes in it
But I just can't stand the editing... This is far beyond natural look in my opininon and way too much Lightroom.
This pale orange warm look shure gives this feel good vibe, but for me a nice and POY wothy photograph looks different.
Still congratulations to Thompson for taking the win with a still impressive photo.
I just loaded it into Lightroom for fun and got the whitebalance further to the blues, which made it look much more "natural" to me.
And with some less highlights the sky looked allright and there weren't bad shadows either. As I said, I really appreciate the (weather)setting and the rain (first thought, it was pollen)!
My criticism refers mostly to the whitebalance, which silded a few Kelvins to high in my opinion.
But I'm far beyond professional in this area and as always it comes down to opinios, which vary... I don't like the colours here too much, but I'm really diggin' on the submission by Calvin Huth for example. I think you can tell the differences and my preferences.