Photo of the Month | 81st Month

1st Place | Photo of the Month | 81st Month

A Roadside Boy in Peru, by Gerardo Simonetti
Gerardo Simonetti was born in the Bronx New York on April 16, 1957. Studied at the International Center of Photography New York City. Traveled extensively between 1980 and 2000 South America, Central America, Asia and Europe.. Worked as a Freelance and Staff Photographer for Gannett Newspapers until May of 2000. Currently lives in Fortaleza Brazil. Owns and operates a Travel Agency “Fortaleza Beaches” working as a guide and translator throughout the state of Ceara Brazil. Gerardo’s photograph A Roadside Boy in Peru awarded in the Photo of the Day Award in the category of Portraiture Photography, as it scored a solid 69 (Value 13, Clarity 13, Composition 18, Style 13, Skill 12) from our international jury of 5. The number of organic and total social share along with the organic reach and comments boosted the popularity of the photograph, raising its score to 8.43 from social media (Organic Share 3.33, Total Share 4.26, Organic Reach/View 0.84, and Comments 0), and in total 76.43, the highest score in this competition for the 81st Month. This photograph is the winner of Photograph of the Month – 81st Month, 1st Place.

Prize:
We will publish a special interview with Gerardo Simonetti in the Exclusive Interview section on our website. Based on the social media responses and comments, awarded photographs received on the 81st month, we set the maximum number of Organic Social Share at 500, Total Social Share at 1000, Organic Reach 1000, and our subscribers Comments at 50. For this month, we had a head-to-head contest between the top scorers and the photographs that scored the highest became winners of the Photo of the Month. Our team decided to honor these top scorers as 2nd and 3rd places with a page in the next issue of our magazine, where the photographers will share their stories of these photographs. We will also publish their interviews in the Exclusive Interview section on our web. One can see the details of the score from this file. Award Score details, Photo of the Month, 81st Month We always try our best to make this competition as transparent as possible. Please read the award rules, and don’t forget to participate in next month’s competition for a chance to win this prestigious award!

2nd Place | Photo of the Month | 81st Month

Break the Night with Color, by Dariusz Stec
A landscape and lifestyle photographer based in Northampton, Dariusz Stec loves to click, sail and travel, who would like to show how and what he sees through the lens of his camera. Smena-8m was the first camera in his possession in 1985, created around 3000 photos mostly during soaring, and was totally preoccupied with the darkroom photo processing. Dariusz’s photograph Break the Night with Color awarded in the Photo of the Day Award in the category of Night Photography, as it scored a solid 68 (Value 13, Clarity 13, Composition 18, Style 12, Skill 12) from our international jury of 5. The number of organic and total social share along with the organic reach and comments boosted the popularity of the photograph, raising its score to 7.87 from social media (Organic Share 2.79, Total Share 4.81, Organic Reach/View 0.27, and Comments 0), and in total 75.87, the second highest score in this competition for the 81st Month. This photograph is the winner of Photograph of the Month – 81st Month, 2nd Place.

3rd Place | Photo of the Month | 81st Month

Snow Covered Benches, by Des Brownlie
Originally, from the City of Glasgow in Scotland, Des Brownlie moved to New York City 18 years ago; never looking back. He lives in Manhattan and enjoys walking about the city with his camera in hand, taking photos of everything from the ordinary to the extraordinary that makes up New York City. He believes every day is a potential photo shoot with so much color and variety of subjects in the city that he always likes to have a camera on hand as you never know what you might come upon. Brownlie’s photograph Snow Covered Benches, in the category of Wildlife Photography scored a moderate 66.5 (Value 12, Clarity 12, Composition 17.5, Style 13, Skill 12) from our international jury of 5. The number of organic and total social share along with the organic reach and comments boosted the popularity of the photograph, raising its score to 7.615 from social media (Organic Share 2.98, Total Share 3.89, Organic Reach/View 0.745, and Comments 0), and in total 74.115, the third highest score in this competition for the 81st Month. This photograph is the winner of Photograph of the Month – 81st Month, 3rd Place.

They Are Among Us, by Shirren Lim
Born in Penang Island, Malaysia, in 1970, Shirren would find herself moving cities over the course of her life. She is now based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Shirren took up photography in 2009, as she thought it would be an interesting habit, later she discovered it as her true passion. Shirren loves portraitures best. To her, the expressions people wear are so beautiful, so telling, so uncovered in their sincerity. Shirren’s photograph They Are Among Us, in the category of Motion Photography scored a moderate 67 (Value 12, Clarity 12, Composition 18, Style 12, Skill 13) from our international jury of 5. The number of organic and total social share along with the organic reach and comments boosted the popularity of the photograph, raising its score to 7.01 from social media (Organic Share 2.83, Total Share 3.65, Organic Reach/View 0.53, and Comments 0), and in total 74.01, the forth highest score in this competition for the 81st Month. This photograph is also the winner of Photograph of the Month – 81st Month, 3rd Place as their scores are so close.