[Photo credit: © Marek Hosek]
A beautiful backlit-image of a deer at sunrise (below) has won a runner-up place for London-based landscape photographer in the Velux Lovers of Light 2015 Instagram competition.
However, it was an image by a US-based non-professional photographer that stole the limelight and claimed the overall title (above).
The worldwide competition sought photos that ‘creatively captured daylight’.
UK photographer Jacob Riblin, one of two runners-up, captured his photo at Richmond Park in Surrey in a contest that pulled in around 5,000 entries.
[Photo credit: © Jacob Riblin]
The overall winner was Marek Hosek, whose image of a group of children cooling down on a hot summer’s day in Chicago earned the graphic designer a trip to New York worth £5,000.
Commenting on his shot, Marek, who is from Prague in the Czech Republic but now lives in the US, said: ‘The firemen in my neighbourhood opened up the fire hydrant to give the kids a chance to cool down and I thought the lighting was perfect – the spraying water and silhouette of the kids really captured the essence of the competition for me.
‘I’m not a professional photographer but, like many others, Instagram has given me the opportunity to share some of my favourite shots.’
Carina Johansson from Sweden was a joint runner-up [Photo credit: Carina Johansson]
Check out the Instagram accounts of the top 10 photographers here:
https://instagram.com/p/NM6r8Uqa73/
https://instagram.com/p/e7ppp-IYo5/
https://instagram.com/p/uV_p4KviSP/
https://instagram.com/p/i8vmpASC99/
https://instagram.com/p/lU-0yFmdXG/
https://instagram.com/p/uBMMhULkw-/
https://instagram.com/p/uOflGGub4C/
https://instagram.com/p/xhGQhbq0Lw/
