We’re proud to present the talented contest winners who've shared their prize with all of us. So many amazing images, all well deserving of their distinction, and the awesome prizes that go with it. Can’t wait to see the future winners have in store!
Congratulations Celebrating Nature Grand Jury Winner "Monument Valley Rainbow" by frednewman
Congratulations My Best Shot Photo Contest Grand Jury Winner "Owls in love" by lesarnott
"Many thanks for 5D Mk3 I'm so over the moon with it! Big thanks to Viewbug you made my day." - Les Arnott
Congratulations ViewBug Photography Awards Grand Jury Winner "Incoming!" by smkeena
"Thank you to Viewbug and the voters for the incredible winning prize, a new Canon 5D3. I am so incredibly honored and humbled by this award and all of the positive response my image has received." - Shane Keena
Congratulations Family Fun Photo Contest Grand Jury Winner "Joy is..." by liliaalvarado
"Thank you ViewBug.com, Sigma Corporation of America and guest judge Fitz Simmons for choosing our work "Joy is..." in Family Fun Photo Contest. We couldn't dream that our work was good enough to be the winning selection out of 6913 submissions, it is such an honor. When I saw the winning notification email from Viebug.com I jumped out of my chair in happiness, It was a great cause for celebration" - liliaalvarado
Congratulations The Brown Color People's Choice Winner "Thank you so much for the super cool prize, I am so honored to have won the “People’s Choice” award but then to win a prize in addition is such an awesome bonus! I love the Echo, it’s super fun and easy to setup. I don’t know how I went this long without one! " by JenniferHannaPhotography
Congratulations Night And Bokeh Grand Jury Winner "Sis, I have a feeling you will break this and mum will think I did it." by sujatasetia
Congratulations Celebrating Nature People's Choice Winner "Focused" by alanwsmith
Congratulations Depth In Black And White Grand Jury Winner "Casa Mila by Antoni Gaudi" by vladgeorgescu
"About winning a contest and receiving a prize I would say it is always an amazing feeling because even if you are one of the finalists your image is still up against 40-50 other excellent images, so it's always great to know that out of all, your photograph stood out the most. As for receiving a prize, it is always a nice little reward which reminds me that my photography is worth something"- vladgeorgescu
Congratulations Fungi Grand Jury Winner "Magic Mushroom" by Michelleroberts_1442
"I can't even believe what an amazing honor it was to win the tamron 70-300 lens! It made my whole year and I am so grateful that my photo was the grand prize winner. Here are a few photos of me and my brand new lens!" - Michelleroberts_1442
Congratulations Grand Jury Winner mack_photography
"huge shoutout to @viewbug and @tamronusa, got home to a lovely package waiting for me" - mack_photography
Congratulations Colors In The City Grand Jury Winner "Times Square, New York" by gilesrrocholl
Congratulations Celebrating Nature Grand Jury Winner "Autumn" by bridgephotography
"I am a enthusiastic semi-pro photographer who took up this hobby about 7 years ago when my wife bought me my first camera for my 40th birthday. I live in a small town in the South East of England a few miles from London and work full time as a graphic designer at a large printers. My main interests in photography are nature which can be anything from bugs to bears, and my two little boys who are growing up fast! In the last few years I have found myself photographing weddings which I love to do, and is a great way of funding my wildlife passion. By far my favourite subject are deer and especially fallow deer which can found all across the UK, I just love to photograph them at dawn on a golden misty morning in Autumn. I like to try and include the habit of the animal that I am photographing and not just go for the close up shot, and if there is one tip I would give to anybody photographing wildlife is to stay with your subject as long as possible. I have been lucky to have a number of my images win awards in wildlife competitions, be published in the national newspapers, I have also written articles for photography magazines about my techniques in photographing wildlife during my short photographic career.
I joined Viewbug about 18 months ago and have entered a number of the competitions, to my surprise I have had quite a lot of success winning various prizes for my images which is awesome. One of the competitions I entered was the Celebrating Nature back in July of this year which I won a Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD lens with my image of a red deer stag calling out one Autumn morning, its probably my favourite image of a stag I’ve taken. I was very excited to have won this lens as I had been toying with the idea of buying a zoom lens like this which I could take out on days I couldn’t justify taking my larger prime lens with me. I received the lens safely by courier from Viewbug one September morning and so as the annual deer rut was just about to kick off I though what better way to see how it handles than to take some photos of red deer. I live within an hour of Richmond Park which is in London, its a massive area of mainly woodland with some open grassland and there is a wild but managed heard of red and fallow deer of around a 1000, I’ve been there a number of times over the years so I know the area quite well.
So early one morning before I had to start work (I work shifts which is handy) I drove to Richmond parked up and walked in to find some deer, the noise at dawn of red deer stags calling out to the hinds encodes all round the park, the morning was misty and the sun was just coming up when I found a stag with hinds. I have two cameras, both Canon, I have a 1Dx and a 5D mk3, I thought I would use the 5D with the Tamron lens as this would be the setup I thought about using when I didn’t want to lug all my kit around.
There was a large stag with a group of twenty or so hinds about 40 meters from me so I decided to stick with him as he was making a lot of noise and chasing off the younger stags. Behind me was the backlit misty type shots of the smaller stags watching and in front was the large stag with the ladies, perfect. I normally shoot with either a 500mm or 300mm prime lens so it took a bit of getting used to using a zoom again, but once I sorted myself out I found the zoom to be very smooth and precise, the AF locked on with no problem and the focus motor was almost silent, the VC worked really well, I was in quite a heavy wooded area making it was quite dark so I was shooting at f6.3, which is wide open for this lens at 600mm and it coped excellently with some of the shutter speeds that were about 1/200 which normally is way to slow at 600mm as I tried to keep the ISO down below 1600. This is my first Tamron lens and I have to say its built really well, not to heavy and not to light and with a high quality feel. Well I spent about 3 hours there that morning walking about finding other deer to photograph and I didn’t find once I needed to get my other camera out with a prime lens on to take a shot, the Tamron lens worked excellently and to be honest much better than I thought it would. Since that day I’ve been out with my boys to a zoo and I took only the Tamron and the 5D with me and got some great shots with it. Thank you ViewBug for all your hard work with these competitions and thank you Tamron for such a great prize." - bridgephotography
Congratulations Beauty Of Nature Grand Jury Winner "Night Fire over Vestrahorn" by jasonjhatfield
Congratulations Cliffs Photo Contest Amateur Winner "Helmcken Falls" by Margi
"Thank you ViewBug and the prize sponsors. I am so excited to be the Amateur winner of the Cliffs photo contest. My dream has come true! I will truly enjoy using my new GoPro Hero Session. I received it in record time, only 6 days!" - Margi
Congratulations The Animal Eye Grand Jury Winner "Black cat" by DavidMonty
"Thank you again Viewbug! You ROCK!!! :)" - David
Congratulations Zootography Grand Jury Winner "Sleeping Cubs" by garycox1
“I would like to thank all at ViewBug and all the people that voted for my 'Sleeping Cubs in the Zootography photo contest. It means a lot that something I have produced is appreciated and enjoyed by others. The Nikon 1 camera is great but I have yet to road test it. However, it is small and neat enough to carry with me at all times and therefore never missing a photo opportunity.” - garycox1
Congratulations Clouds In Movement Grand Jury Winner "The right direction.." by claudiorussa
"Thank you for the award and for voting on my photo. I am so grateful and the prize is beautiful" - claudiorussa
Congratulations Metro Stations Grand Jury Winner byrnephotography
Congratulations Social Contest Winner waltertwilliamsiv
"Thank you again for allowing me to contribute to your amazing company and contest" - waltertwilliamsiv
Congratulations The Golden Moment Amateur Winner jodiemm
"I just wanted to say thank you SO much, I am the happiest human right now! It's also the biggest dose of encouragement, because I only started really getting into photography last year - viewbug has been a big incentive to keep trying new things." - jodiemm
Elisa Velleca winner of our Instagram Giveaway
Sadie Courson winner of our Instagram Giveaway
Tyler winner of our Instagram Giveaway
