The 2017 Pinkbike Photo of the Year Contest is Here With $10,000 in Prizing

Jan 18, 2018
by Pinkbike Staff  
Photo of the Year
There is $10,000 USD in cash on the line in the 2017 Photo of the Year Powered by SRAM, so get ready to nominate your favourite pictures.


What's at stake? $10,000 USD Cash

The 7th annual Pinkbike Photo of the Year Contest is coming fast. The winner will join Steve Shannon, John Wellburn, Toby Cowley, Sterling Lorence, Christoph Laue, and Sean Lee in the PB Photo of the Year Hall of Fame and they could walk away with some serious cash.

Think you have a banger? This is your chance to see how you stack up against the best mountain bike photographers in the world. Any images uploaded during 2017, or up until Wednesday January 24th, 2018, can be nominated. You can nominate up to three photos of your own, or from other photographers, for entry into the competition. Last year over 285,000 votes were cast until ultimately one image came out on top.

You have until Wednesday January 24th, 2018 to nominate your favourite shots.

How Does it Work?

All photos taken and uploaded to Pinkbike during 2017 and before January 24th, 2018 that are nominated by users are eligible. Each Pinkbike user can nominate up to 3 different photos into the contest (see how to nominate below). The judges will then spend several sleepless nights narrowing the nominated photos down to 32, after which we will open things up to the public. We will pit each photo randomly against another photo in a college basketball bracket-like showdown. At this point, users will vote on the match ups and the photo with the most votes will move onto the next round. So 32 photos will narrow down to 16, then 8, 4, 2 until there is a single photo deemed 2017 Pinkbike Photo of the Year.

The winner that is chosen by you, the readers, will receive a cheque thanks to SRAM, as well as the title of 2017 Pinkbike Photo of the Year.

Photo of the Year
Photos can be nominated by any user by clicking the 'Nominate this Photo' link. All nominated photos will then be viewed by the panel of judges and narrowed down to 32.

Rules

• Everyone is eligible except for judges
• Only one photo can be selected from each photographer into the final 32
• You must be the photographer who took the photo and then have uploaded it onto your personal Pinkbike account to be eligible
Nominations close, Wednesday January 24th, 2018, at 9am PST.

Prizing

• Winner will receive $5,000
• Runner Up will receive $3,000
• Semi Finalists will each receive $1,000

Full rules and regulations can be found here.




Photo of the Year



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59 Comments
  • 311 8
 I used a 28.99mm lens to capture this shot...
  • 54 45
 Manual focus or AF motor?
  • 204 2
 @WAKIdesigns: E-Focus, it's like manual with a little bit of electronic assistance.
  • 101 3
 No matter who gets POTY, SRAM already has Pinkbike Meme of the Year locked down for 2018.
  • 13 32
flag IluvRIDING (Jan 18, 2018 at 15:41) (Below Threshold)
 @N-60: Totally. And now they are trying to save the PR f*ckup by chucking $10 000 at the PB community.
  • 13 17
flag vydra (Jan 18, 2018 at 16:13) (Below Threshold)
 @WAKIdesigns: why so many dislikes on the comment?
  • 1 1
 @YouHadMeAtDrugs: Damn.
  • 7 3
 @VDR: Simple, 'cause it's @WAKIdesigns
  • 138 3
 The winner should receive a prize of $ 9 999,749. I feel 10000 is dumbed down.
  • 5 26
flag thedriftisreal (Jan 18, 2018 at 17:20) (Below Threshold)
 just like dub bb...
  • 4 18
flag siderealwall2 (Jan 18, 2018 at 23:00) (Below Threshold)
 $9,999.99 and 9/10ths

Shut up Shimano fanboy's, it's the current year...
  • 61 8
 roost shots only please! no others need apply Wink
  • 3 2
 spot on. haaaa
  • 50 4
 Is there a prerequisite for 157ROOST for this year's photos?
  • 4 2
 Only if you want to end up with true wheels afterwards. Sincerely, -Math
  • 40 2
 So here’s how it works.
1. You vote for what you like.
2. More people disagree with you than agree with you, so your choice loses.
3. You post a comment on the next round
“This is such bullshit, there’s no way this should have won”
4. You threaten to quit voting
5. See step 1
  • 29 2
 Hope we are all ready to lock up some rear brakes
  • 28 3
 (insert's Roost related pun that mocks sram DUB and super boost 157)
  • 19 3
 (And thumbs nose at Sam Pilgram on an Ebike)
  • 7 2
 No. 1 for POTY! Let's do this!
  • 2 2
 hahaha awesome!!
  • 1 1
 Exactly! I hope pink bikers realize how enthused the industry is to make us Quality Parts. Just look at the faces of these two dudes. You can tell the only thing on their mind is bringing us the best quality Parts at the cheapest price they possibly can. Pink bikers you know everyone in the industry is looking out for your pocket book in your best interest. Always trust the bike industry wholeheartedly.
  • 10 1
 So, no one wins enough money to buy a new bike!
  • 6 0
 dang it cant think of any good roost puns
  • 15 1
 The roosts will blow at the break of dawn, looks like a session they’re riding on.
Hand em 10 grand, and they’ll be gone.
But don’t vote twice, it’s not right.
  • 6 1
 @speed10: 10 out of 10 pinkbike poetry at its finest Big Grin
  • 6 1
 @speed10: Your nobel prize is in the mail...
  • 6 1
 Not a single roost shot in my portfolio, I will never make it past the second round. Frown
  • 5 0
 Finally! I was in need for some new Wallpapers Smile
  • 4 2
 The display pic is at the Youies . . . . out of everywhere in the world . . . . As it is a horrible and shitty place to ride (that I have ridden for at least 12 years now), I am incredibly surprised that this photo was used
  • 3 1
 When your in Geelong and cant be arsed going to Ballarat or the Otways, its not so bad! =P
  • 1 1
 Clearly you need to ride Macedon more often
  • 1 1
 @Waldon83: Any vids from Macedon?? Just wondering if its worth the drive out there. Do you need a shuttle? Cheers
  • 2 1
 @ib6ub9: nope, you can do easy laps. Hard to find if you don’t know where it is, and hard to find the longer tracks if you don’t know where they are/go
It’s marked to be logged so I’d get out there ASAP.
Head past the township of Mt Macedon, start heading up the hill for about 8 mins, turn right towards sanitarium lake, then it’s your 5th left to the car park.
First part is pines, second in natives.
Good luck
  • 1 1
 They used the same pic last year as well...
  • 6 1
 How to win if I don't take a pics while riding?
  • 5 4
 I’m an avid Survivor fan (don’t ask) and the prize has always been $1,000,000. The show first came out in 2000 but that same one million bucks that someone won this year could have been worth $1,434,533.57...IF the show adjusted for inflation. The same $10,000 won in the 2010 photo contest would have been worth $11,180.05 in 2017. Hey that’s more than a grand! Not insignificant.

Just a thought, but this contest (and any contest really) can last for what, a decade? Decades? I’d never win this kind of contest; it’s not a personal thing at all. I just think it’d be killer if an organization actually realized this and adjusted for inflation.
  • 5 0
 Is ‘prizing’ a word?
  • 2 1
 PRIZING!! Gah! Absolutely f*cking not a word!

Prizes for what "Prizing" might mean..... Taking off the last layer of a very tightly pass the parcel?
  • 1 2
 PriCing is a word. It’s an economic strategy done by businesses
  • 3 1
 Here I saved you all the trouble of picking one

www.pinkbike.com/photo/14815567
  • 3 0
 I just want to give Connor Fearon in the sample photo a prop.
  • 2 1
 Not happy, I planned on submitting some photos but my tripod is not rocking the new "157mm" camera clamp width so my skills will not on point.
  • 3 2
 Winner prediction: A roost shot on a 157 (with 28.99 cranks)... wearing a troll-face mask.
  • 1 0
 Everyone talking about boring old roost, dont they know this year its all about the superroost and roost trail?
  • 1 0
 best roost photo of the year, please no!
  • 2 0
 #roost
  • 1 0
 OOPS, missed the "s" in finalist(s)
  • 3 0
 1 winner, 1 runner up, 2 semi-finalists.
  • 2 2
 Only nominating roost photos this year
  • 4 5
 How many DUmBs do you need to sell to make $10 000 to hand out? That is the question.
  • 5 5
 I'm voting for any ebike pics, just to piss you all off...!
  • 3 3
 Donald Trump
  • 3 5
 they should get 28.99 hundred dollars
  • 2 3
 Roost on the Boost!
  • 1 3
 all the roost shots...
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