2012: Nature in Black & White - Winner
Robert Zoehrer (Austria)
Hare in a landscape
This steep, ploughed field, in Burgenland, Austria, with a ribbon of dazzling yellow oilseed rape on the horizon and a swathe of green to the side, was just what Robert was looking for. ‘But it lacked a focus point’, he says. As if on cue, a brown hare entered stage right from the grass and sat motionless on the furrowed soil. ‘But once I saw the image in black and white,’ says Robert, ‘not only was the stark geometry highlighted but also the small hare became the centre of the composition rather than being lost among the colour.’
Canon EOS-1D Mark III + 500mm f4 lens; 1/640 sec at f11; ISO 250.
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Commended A wave of knots Thomas Hanahoe
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