Photograph of the year

[Bobobird]

Chris - I disagree.

Firstly one needs the kind of resources and backoffice productions teams that these guys have access to and use.

Secondly, each of their shots is derived from the collective talent of lots and lots of individuals. Hell, they may not even be the actual photographer! They just direct and formulate against corporate briefs.

No their shots will never do well purely due to the fabrication/mutilation work that goes into their work. If there was a fantasy category, they might.

Oh btw, forgot to mention. Look at 1 or 2 of their work and it is like WOW! Look at 30-40 and the same same becomes boring.

[Colin Southern]

Perhaps you mis-read. This comp was run by Yahoo, and with Flickr they have a much wider selection to work with then the "limited" number of entries that any open competition would garner.

I disagree about Flickr, there is lots of good stuff there. One should not broadbrush!

Could be a bit of mis-reading going on Bobo - Chris wasn't saying Flickr had rubbish on it.

[Bobobird]

Could be a bit of mis-reading going on Bobo - Chris wasn't saying Flickr had rubbish on it.

You are right. I did mis-read. Apologies Chris.

Actually I feel really bad so deleted it.

[Deucalion]

So here's the challenge, for 2013, let's all try and do something different to the norm and post some interestingly different pictures.

At the end of the day it is up to us as the online community to broaden our horizons. I have some personal thoughts on this, so will be pursuing this challenge. Is anyone else coming along for the ride?

a challenge! count me in