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Most great photographers will tell you that it’s about talent and many years of perfecting your skills rather than fancy equipment with tons of features. The winners of this year’s iPhone Photography Award are a great example of that. Scroll down to see the 1, 2, and 3rd place winners of different categories - all photos were taken with an iPhone!
If you’d also like to see the winners of the 2020 contest, check out our previous post here.
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#1
2nd Place, Animals - Sanjay Chauhan
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#2
3rd Place, Animals - Tran Hieu
Tim 3 years ago
There are cases designed to take smart phones underwater. This is fairly close to the surface.
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Hieu Tran 3 years ago
That's a huge compliment for me, Kelley. I used the iPhone XR to photograph this humpback whale.
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
Amazing photograph! That is an incredible amount of clarity for an IPhone. I'm curious what underwater housing they used and how they were able to get this shot.
Hieu Tran 3 years ago
I used the Kraken underwater housing. The bright sunlight from above helped me get this photograph in focus.
Load More Replies... Ann M Clinkscales 3 years ago
That is a very good point!! I don't use apple products because if someone even spits in the direction of an iPhone while talking, the f doesn't want to work anymore...maybe it'll think about it after a rice rest!!!
#3
1st Place, Landscape - Linda Repasky
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
Lovely, atmospheric photograph. It reminds me of a crisp autumn morning.
Katie Everswick 3 years ago
someone please explain to me how these are iphone photos? my iphone could NOT take a picture like this.
Lily Francis 3 years ago
It looks like there's a face in the back, in the mist, of an animal's face.
#4
1st Place, Nature - Andrea Buchanan
Leslie Donsen 3 years ago (edited)
Little known fact: An aspen tree grows roots near the surface of the ground from which new trees sprout. The new trees are genetically identical to the parent tree. This process will grow entire forests of aspen that are all interconnected by roots and are ONE genetic individual.
#5
3rd Place, Travel - Karolina Alama-Maruta
Steve Ramaekers 3 years ago
It’s gorgeous but I’m so confused and trying to figure it out 😜. Am I alone?
Canuckland 3 years ago
If this is 3rd place, I can’t wait to see 1st and 2nd. This is gorgeous! What were your settings and on which iPhone?
#6
3rd Place, Other - Clay Peres
DinoBambino 3 years ago
I really like this photo but let's face it: it is the color that do the job here
Richard Graham 3 years ago
I think so, also. In 1966 Cadillac did not offer pink - the car is probably white.
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Redemption Happens 3 years ago
🎶 I love you for your pink Cadillac Crushed velvet seats Riding in the back Cruising down the street Waving to the girls Feeling out of sight Spending all my money On a Saturday night 🎶
Alphabet Soupy 3 years ago
It looks like they allow a lot of post processing on the photos so I’m assuming it’s a combination of an external filter (covers all lenses) and editing.
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#7
3rd Place, Portrait - Glenn Homann
#8
Grand Prize Winner - Antonio Denti
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
Hauntingly eerie. I would love to know the story behind this photograph.
AW 3 years ago
"Mosul, Iraq (2021). The soldier moved towards the kid suddenly and unexpectedly. His hand reached for the kid's face. For a brief moment. I could not see the soldier's face - as not one inch of his skin was left uncovered by his full armor - but I felt he meant it with some kind of melancholic affection: like older people sometimes do to the young, with a mixture of worry about their future and desire to encourage them. In that instant, against the silence of the gutted city, I felt I could almost hear the noise of the herculean effort of growing up." Antonio Denti
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1st Place, Children - Huapeng Zhao
#10
2nd Place, Landscape - Joshua Hollander
#11
1st Place, Animals - Pier Luigi Dodi
#12
2nd Place, Portrait - Erin Brooks
RandomFrog(He/They️️) 3 years ago
I love playing with shadows and light like that! I’m my house in the early summer the sun sets just right and there’s a few spots where u get good rays like this. Love it when the light hits my eyes and they glow.
Alexis Dominey 3 years ago
The beauty of brown eyes, many dont notice the beauty till the light hits em just right.
#13
3rd Place, Landscape - Wenqin Hu
Bad Alchemy 3 years ago
The crazy in me has decided that the smooth green plateau is a golf course.
Carrie Priegel 3 years ago
It's as if they caught Mother Nature in the midst of actually creating this landscape! 👍💕
#14
1st Place, People - Patricia Cançado
#15
2nd Place, Photographer Of The Year - Kelley Dallas
Ann Tegnér 3 years ago
Some paintings look like photos - this photo looks very much like a painting.
#16
3rd Place, Lifestyle - Dimpy Bhalotia
#17
2nd Place, Nature - Charlotte Mason-Mottram
#18
1st Place, City Life - Yongmei Wang
Ann M Clinkscales 3 years ago
That is a lot of flyovers! I am sure I would be lost trying to find the right one for me!!
Jo Morris 3 years ago
Imagine how difficult it would be to discover you've taken the wrong one!
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Judy Stembridge 3 years ago
Experienced a version of this on a trip to Shanghai well over a dozen years ago. It was more exciting than frightening but I was a bus passenger. Our driver was a magician in disguise. We went from navigating this to our hotel on a tiny street at ground level where he managed to back in and around a corner without so much as a smidgen of trouble. Now, he got a great round of applause after this and many grateful Yuen tips in appreciation of his driving skills. Hero!
Deborah Harris 3 years ago
Wow, was about to say i'd spend years trying to find my way off this, but then noticed that nearly all of the yellow and white cars are the same car.
Thanatos Charles 3 years ago
Huangjuewan Interchange, Chongqing, China, And as for the yellow and white, in my experience (someone can correct me) most yellows are "single" taxis and the white vans are commuter taxis,
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#19
1st Place, Architecture - Kaustav Sarkar
#20
3rd Place, Nature - Chuan Mu
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
Great use of perspective. It makes me think of a traditional sumi-e ink painting.
#21
3rd Place, Environment - Shou Li
#22
1st Place, Portrait - Arevik Martirosyan
RandomFrog(He/They️️) 3 years ago
Black and white and colors are so fun to play with in photography. The simplicity of the black left side adds to the photo so much even thoigh it’s just a small detail
#23
2nd Place, Still Life - Robin Robertis
#24
1st Place, Travel - Marina Klutse
Bouche Clay 3 years ago
You know, every cat online that sees this picture is thinking, "Look at those giant Peets!"
#25
3rd Place, Abstract - William Ainger
Ann M Clinkscales 3 years ago
It's like the real abode is trying to sneak out and show itself!! Keep working on it!! Be yourself, Home!!
#26
2nd Place, Lifestyle - Kui Yang
Ann M Clinkscales 3 years ago
It makes it easy to decide what to wear every day...Let's see. Do I wear white or do I wear white?
#28
3rd Place, Architecture - Judith Lopez
Tim 3 years ago
Getting lower every day. Soon all of the mafia killings in Vegas will be solved.
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#29
2nd Place, Abstract - George Allen
#30
2nd Place, Architecture - Chienjay Sheu
Ann M Clinkscales 3 years ago
That is so cool! It looks like it makes a word or phrase in Cantonese or Mandarin!
#31
2nd Place, Other - Becky Ashway
#32
2nd Place, People - Alina Li
Ann M Clinkscales 3 years ago (edited)
I wonder how long that man has been painting in his life! He seems dedicated with the hunch and everything!
#33
2nd Place, City Life - Wei Dong Ran
#34
2nd Place, Travel - Kuanglong Zhang
#35
1st Place, Sunset - Leping Cheng
Ann M Clinkscales 3 years ago
Cool! A gas balloon! Wonder if it's a weather balloon or part of a race?
#36
1st Place, Photographer Of The Year - Rachel Sela
karl briggs 3 years ago
Toilet roll and face masks, at one point both more expensive than gold!
Ann M Clinkscales 3 years ago (edited)
Is he wrapped in toilet paper? He has two masks also. Weird...unique! I like the way that could be any man out there!
#37
1st Place, Lifestyle - Laila Bakker
#38
3rd Place, People - Clay Peres
#39
1st Place, Abstract - Marcello Raggini
#40
3rd Place, Children - Anne Ziolo
#41
3rd Place, City Life - Yuepeng Mai
#42
2nd Place, Environment - George Allen
#43
2nd Place, Children - Yu Chen
Deborah Harris 3 years ago
I'm not sure about this one, there's two people taking a photo of the baby with a dress over it's head
Ronda News Channel 3 years ago
When the woman take a photo of the baby, the baby's dress is blown by wind.
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#45
2nd Place, Sunset - Julia Shatun
#46
3rd Place, Sunset - Robin Robertis
Deborah Harris 3 years ago
Just enlarged the photo to see what the red things were ... I really wish I hadn't 😫
#47
1st Place, Environment - Yang Li
Ann M Clinkscales 3 years ago
Wow. Those apartments are right next to a nuclear power plant! No guards, no gates, no security...wow!
#48
1st Place, Still Life - Ayaka Takine
karl briggs 3 years ago
I like this one, so simple but gives you a glimpse into someone else's world.
#49
3rd Place, Photographer Of The Year - Glenn Homann
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