Jun 20

London Photo Festival, Winner

Under no circumstances, I would have thought to win at the London Photo Festival with a subject named: "Your London". When Simon Norfolk (great photographer, teacher and winner of the Sony World Photography Award in the people category) announced the winners, I was making a video with my Lumix LX5; he was explaining reasons of his choices while going from 2nd runner up, to runner up and then to the winner. When he pointed his finger towards my picture in the corner as the Best in show, my hands started trembling so much that I had to stop the video (and you can notice it if you watch it on this page). This was a great satisfaction. Non avrei mai immaginato di vincere al London Photo Festival con un soggetto dal titolo: "La tua Londra". Quando Simon Norfolk (un acclamato fotografo, insegnante e vincitore del Sony World Photography Award nella categoria "persone") ha annunciato i vincitori, io stavo filmando con la mia Lumix LX5; stava spiegando le ragioni della sua scelta passando dal terzo, al secondo al vincitore. Quando ha indicato con il dito la mia immagine nell'angolo della sala, le mie mani hanno cominciato a tremare così tanto che ho dovuto fermare la ripresa (e potete notarlo se lo guardate da questa pagina). Questa è stata una grande soddisfazione.

The winner is: Speed

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Speed

I didn't want to take the usual Tower Bridge picture at night and I wanted to give more importance to things which are unusual like the gallery, the road and the rays of light, and I did it tilting the composition. I took multiple shots, but this is the one that reached the right contrast with light reflection on the gallery iron walls.

This is the video I was taking with my digital camera and I had to stop. Here is the official Video from Youtube. The other image I printed for the LPF is the Covent Garden Market which is one of my favorite pictures. L'altra immagine che ho stampato per il LPF, il Covent Garden Market, una delle mie preferite:

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