Steve Shannon's Winning Image for 2016 Photo of the Year.We gave you the top 32 images from 2016 and after more than 285,000 votes were cast you, our readers, have voted for the winner and ultimately the 2016 Photo of the Year. The winner will be divying up the $10,000 in CASH from our sponsors,
SRAM.
Check out the voting page for all the results from each bracket.
The 6th annual Pinkbike Photo of the Year Contest is a wrap and Steve Shannon will be joining the ranks of Sean Lee, 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 2016 Photo of the Year Powered by SRAM.
What was at stake? $10,000 Cash•
Steve Shannon will receive a check for $5,000• Bartek Wolinski will receive a check for $3,000
• Paris Gore and Margus Riga will each receive a check for $1,000
We'll post up an interview with the winner shortly.
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THANK GOD
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How come Sean Lee didn't get a mention from last year???
step 1: put camera on level service by loose dirt
step 2: press record on HD camera
step 3: go through video frame by frame
step 4: export best shot
To create most of the other pictures
step 1. buy a really expensive SLR with christmas money and do painstaking research. get proper lenses/filter and spend hours on google trying to figure out where the film goes
step 2 study law of thirds and other composition related topics. go through a painful amount of other peoples work to see what it is in a picture that you like and then learn how to do elements of it to come up with own style,
step 3. go riding and then keep getting off bikes and walking up hill or climbing trees while your subjects/friends get to keep riding
step 4. take hundreds of pictures and go through each and every one of them and beat up yourself that none of them are any good
step 5. find one glimmer of hope when you find the perfect subject matter and talk your friends into going outside at night to get their picture in the light of Aurora Borealis. google the hell out of taking action night shots
step 6. go biking again and walk most of the trail.
step 7. find the perfect shot and enter it into pinkbike contest
step 8. get beaten by a roost shot in the middle rounds. The only thing that keep you from having shattered dreams and taking the first job that comes up at London drugs is that the injustice doesn't go unnoticed in the forums and that at least is something
step 9. someone defends the creativeness of putting a gopro in 4k mode and picking frames out claiming that no one else could do it
step 10. decide you don't care and that TheR has to be a teenage girl with all her feeliness.
Moral? the other photographers have feelings too. you need a thick skin to be am artist.
next summer you can come up and help me repair berms that moody little girls like you have destroyed and fill in ruts that people have created because they rode when wet and we will see how much you appreciate a berm shot after that. You also make a lot of assumptions.
That's why I prefer a roost pic. There is real riding behind, not a guy rolling down a hill, who (by photogs work) is surrounded by light beams in a jungle.
yes, I'm also the guy who hates redundant story telling in MTB movies (except documentaries with real info). To me, it's all about the riding itself. If a roost pic brings that across and I get pumped, cool. All other pics may be diverted to photography sites and get all the rewards they deserve for the awesome photographic techniques they employed.
Yours,
a long-year photographer
(Juste change the year from 2014 to back years)
whats up?
"Paris Gore and Margus Riga will each receive a check for $1,000"
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