Photo of the Month | 21st Month

Prize:
Both these photographs will be published on Pages 2 and 3 of our magazine. We will publish special interview with Pharan Tanveer and Shahnaz Parvin in the Photographer with Style section of the magazine, and the Exclusive Interview section on our website.Another three close contestants scored between 65 and 71 from our international jury. Our team decided to honor these as 2nd and 3rd places with a page in the next issue of our magazine, where they will share the stories of these photographs. We will also publish their interviews in the Exclusive Interview section on our Web.

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2nd Place | Photo of the Month | 21st Month

Allah hu Akbar, by Pharan Tanveer
The next nearest photograph was Allah hu Akbar. Pharan Tanveer also took this in Lahore, Pakistan. Awarded in the category of Islamic Photography, it scored a moderate 65 (Value 11.5, Clarity 12, Composition 16, Style 12, and Skill 13.5) from our international jury of 5, however it obtains a solid position in the competition with the number of Tweets and Facebook shares, StumbleUpon Organic View, raising its score to 9.786 from social media (Facebook Share 5, Tweets 2.9, StumbleUpon Organic View 1.686, and Comments 0.2) and in total 74.786. This photograph is the winner of Photograph of the Month – 21st Month, 2nd Place.

3rd Place | Photo of the Month | 21st Month

The Symbol of Love, by Subhashish Nag Choudhury
Subhashish Nag Choudhury lives in Bangalore and working as a software engineer in one of the IT firms. He loves taking photographs of everything in general. His current photography is usually on nature, wildlife, landscape, micro and he likes to do experiment on artistic photography as well. Subhashish‘s photograph The Symbol of Love in the category of Architectural Photography, scored 67 (Value 11.5, Clarity 12, Composition 17, Style 13, Skill 13.5) from our international jury of 5. The number of Tweets and Facebook shares, StumbleUpon Organic Views boosted the popularity of the photograph, raising its score to 3.909 from social media (Facebook Share 1.86, Tweets 1, StumbleUpon Organic View 0.849, Comments 0.2), and in total 70.909. This photograph is the winner of Photograph of the Month – 21st Month, 3rd Place.

First Rays of Sun, by Vinay Joshi
Vinay Joshi lives and works in Chennai. He is an Automotive Engineer and work for a company called Caterpillar. Photography is not a hobby or profession to him, it is in fact that zeal for him to capture that moment and live it everyday for rest of his life. Vinay’s photograph First Rays of Sun in the category of Sunrise & Sunset Photography scored 67 (Value 13, Clarity 12, Composition 16.5, Style 13, Skill 12.5) from our international jury of 5. Number of comments, Tweets and StumbleUpon Organic Views boosted the popularity of the photograph, raising its score to 3.4465 from social media (Facebook Share 1.38, Tweets 1.25, StumbleUpon Organic View 0.4155, Comments 0.4), and in total 70.4465.

As these two photograph’s scores are so close, we decided to award them as Photo of the Month – 21st Month, 3rd Place.