The Contest Judges


Kathleen Connally

Kathleen is the photographer behind the popular and award-winning photoblog A Walk Through Durham Township, an ongoing project that visually chronicles life in rural America. Kathleen is also a commercial assignment photographer and lectures on photography and photoblogging.
» durhamtownship.com

Luca Desienna

Gomma Online Portal is an extensive resource for photographers, visual artists and designers. It has a comprehensive and searchable directory of links related to photography, visual arts, design, online magazines, blogs and videologs.
» gommamag.com

Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett has a popular camera blog at dslrblog.com and is Crestock's newest photo blogger.
» dslrblog.com

Mark Goldstein

Mark is an experienced professional photographer and website editor. He runs PhotographyBLOG, one of the UK’s biggest digital photography websites, which offers informative new product reviews and original in-depth news from around the world.
» photographyblog.com

David Hobby

David is a staff photojournalist for the Baltimore Sun in the United States, and the founder of strobist.com, the world's most popular website for small-flash location lighting techniques.
» strobist.com

Catherine Jamieson

Catherine, author of Digital Portrait Photography and Lighting and Create Your Own Photoblog, works as a writer and a freelance photographer in Nova Scotia, Canada. A photoblogging pioneer and publisher of one of the top-rated photoblogs (Forbes selected her blog at catherinejamieson.com as one of the five best on the internet in 2004), Catherine is also the founder of utata.org, a community photography site, where the atmosphere is tribal and the natives are friendly.
» catherinejamieson.com

Haje Jan Kamps

Haje is a writer and photographer who has many irons in the fire. He is waiting impatiently for his first book to go on sale, and keeps a photography blog over on photocritic.org when he finds things worth writing about. He loves photography, and is secretly embittered to discover that being a judge means that he can't enter the competition himself.
» photocritic.org

Trey Ratcliffe

Trey is the owner of Stuckincustoms.com. Most of his days and nights are spent running John Galt Games, but he does find time to have a bit of a creative outlet on his blog, taking pictures and doing a bit of writing.
» stuckincustoms.com

Laurin Rinder

Out of Los Angeles, Laurin Rinder has been a photographer for more than half a century, in addition to having been a painter, a music producer and a rockabilly/r&b drummer. His photographic experience is wide and far reaching, with a large and varied portfolio.
» rinderart.com

Darren Rowse

Darren runs Digital Photography School – a hub of information that links to hundreds of other sites around the web that will help you discover what you need to know about digital photography. Darren spends hours each week scouring the web for relevant, digital photography news, tutorials and digital camera reviews so that you don't have to.
» Digital Photography School

Richard Schneider

Picturecorrect.com is a resource to all photographers, digital or film, with a photography tips section for beginner and intermediate photographers looking for some helpful pointers.
» picturecorrect.com

Rannie Turnigan

Rannie is the founder of Photojunkie.ca. A total photojunkie, his camera collection is too many to keep track of. Locked bikes seem to be an obsession as well as casual portraits.
» photojunkie.ca

Yuri Arcurs

Extremely thorough with technical details, you'll be hard pressed to find a photo with slighly missed focus or a spot of dust in Yuri's mammoth portfolio. He's cracked the code on making a (comfortable) living out of microstock, with an even mix of "shiny happy people" and various other subjects, such as real estate, scenic vistas and isolated roses.arcurs.com
» arcurs.com