Finalist in the Shoot & Share 2017 Photo Contest
I’ve been entering the Shoot & Share photo contest for the past 3 years. It’s just a fun, anonymous-voting (you vote for photos without knowing who shot them) contest that photographers from across the world enter. (I wrote about the details of the contest back in 2015, if you want to read more about it.)
Basically, in this contest, you can enter up to 50 photos across 25 categories. During the voting period, the photos are viewed randomly and anonymously, and people vote for their favourites. Pretty simple! Last year my photos made the top 10%, but this year I’m happy to announce that one of my photos was a FINALIST (made it through all 12 rounds of voting without being eliminated)! Other photos made the top 10%, 20% and 30% categories as well! This year 332,768 photos were entered into the contest!
Let’s look at what photos won!
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Amanda Category: Just the Bride (13,834 photos in this category) Voting Round: 6/12 |
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Alana & Michael Category: The Wedding Couple (35,527 photos in this category) Voting Round: 6/12 |
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Maegan & Reginald Category: The Wedding Couple (35,527 photos in this category) Voting Round: 6/12 |
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Lindsay & Mark Category: Ring Shot (8,304 photos in this category) Voting Round: 7/12 |
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Amanda & Kenny Category: The Wedding Couple (35,527 photos in this category) Voting Round: 9/12 |
Surprisingly enough, the image that placed as a Finalist was NOT from a wedding!
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Marshall & Callum Category: That Just Happened (4,317 photos in this category) Voting Round: 12/12 |
The Shoot & Share contest started in 2015, and has gotten more submissions every year – as a result, the competition gets tougher every year as well. For those of you who like numbers, here are how many photos have been submitted to this contest since it began three years ago:
2015: 110,928
2016: 225,207 (more than double the photos entered the year before!)
2017: 332,768