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Breathtaking photos - choose Dgrin's Photo of the Year for 2006!

dgrin.com — Dgrin has some of the best photographers in the world. Check out and vote on this amazing crop of nominees for Photo of the Year 2006.

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  • bettyswollocks, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3nice!
    • SourWorm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Only if you can see the pictures ...
      http://duggmirror.com/design/Breathtaking_photos_choose_Dgrin_s_Photo_of_the_Year_for_2006/
    • kbarrett, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@onethumb

      SHAMELESS self promotion :)
      I find myself sitting here wondering how many sign-ups you are going to get out of this.

      Blue tent is my favorite. Gorgeous.
    • clos, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1It bothers me when people call digital images photography.
      Throughout the act of making an actually photograph, light is involved at every stage of the process (hence "photo").
      There are no computers, no photoshop to doctor the image and no memory cards.

      These images are generic Internet art, from cliche subjects that have been done a million times before, I'm sorry for not seeing whats so 'amazing' about them.
    • leewalton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@clos:

      Light is involved all the way up to the point where it hits the sensor.

      Photography is as much about "seeing" and "composing" the shot. And developing it. Raw processing is the digital equivalent of the processes that take place in the darkroom, and for the best results, require the same degree of skill and understanding of light.

      Without both artistic & technical skills, you can not take a master class shot (ok, someone could get lucky, but they could with film too).

      Your argument is, in my opinion, completely fallacious.
    • KiBLeSnBiTs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wonder if any of these will be used as book covers.
    • TravisG5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ clos

      "no photoshop to doctor the image"

      If you know anything about film photography, and printing the image yourself (using a darkroom), you would know where the first doctored photographs came from. No, it's not as easy or convincible as Photoshop... but it is possible (and sometimes convincible).

      Similar to what leewalton said, digital photography just replaces the film with a digital sensor. The only difference is that no chemicals are involved... the image can be 'developed' automatically.
  • MisterEd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Some great photos in that list. My favourite would have to be "Feed me NOW", a great example of macro photography.
  • Brickhaus, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3Looks like you have to register. Digg for the pictures, no digg for the register. 0 diggs.
  • genckas, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2These photos are amazing!!!!
  • Brainwave, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3There's better photos in SEARS catalog.
  • bdbr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Dugg, even if I don't get to vote. I liked the blue tent.
    • SamKellett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Feed me now was my fav.
    • pcking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Blue Tent was my pick as well
    • kbarrett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Lots of great competition. Blue tent has beautiful color and it really captures something nostalgic about the outdoors.
  • vblvbl, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Children and animals are too easy. I vote for Dave and his fire.
  • thbt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Wallpaper size please!
  • Tallon29, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The Lorne Sunrise pic looks almost airbrushed. It's my favorite
    • SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It's certainly surreal. There is something oddly powerful about it that I like too.
    • NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yeah id ***** give up everything I owned too see a sunset like that every night. (Without being crowded by thousands of other people) Iv never actually been to the ocean, pics like this make me really want to go!
  • twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -11/+6Amazing?
    Best photographers in the world?
    These photos look pretty average to me. I these are the best in the world, then Ansel Adams was a god. Compare these to Margaret Bourke-White or even dozens of other contemporary photographer's works and you'll see how average these photos really are.
    • Misogyny, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Personally, I'm a Joel Peter Witkin fan...
    • matrage, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9hey lets be a little more snooty

    • se7en11, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5That's the great thing about art. What some considers to be junk or not good, others can love. I happen to think the photography is very good on the site, but to be honest it doesn't matter what I think or anyone. It's art.
    • roywaits, on 02/02/2008, -2/+5Average my ass.
    • bigstinky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Adams was a Photography "God." The zone system in itself would back this. His photographs had more luminosity than any by todays digital standards. Digital can never match the emotion that B&W film and silver paper offered. I shoot digital now but shot film for most of my life and I miss it so. It's just too expensive now and less and less retailers stock paper and chemicals. I had to relearn everything I knew just to shoot decent snapshots with digital. Still, there's a lot of nice color work being done and these photos are good examples.
    • mistarojaz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3yeah seriously, there is nothing that deserves to be called "best in the world" on that page
    • twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Oh, sorry, I forgot I was posting to an audience that will argue hours on end about which camera phone takes the worlds best photos.

      What I meant to say above was:

      WOW! OMFG! The BEST photos EVER taken since the invention of the CAMERA!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!!! SO F-ing original!

      PUH-leze!
  • ShuttleDisaster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The sunset photo reminded me of some of the photographs by Vincent Laforet, a photographer for the New York Times as well as a number of other outlets. If you want you can check out his work at http://www.laforetvisuals.com/main.php ... I especially like the one taken atop the Empire State building (hover over index --> perspectives --> aerials 1 --> photo #6.

    also check out this video from apple.com, which, though it's sort of an ad for Aperture, showcases some pretty amazing photos atop the Chrysler Building: http://www.apple.com/aperture/profiles/laforet.html
  • jaksauce, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4give me my breath back
  • rumin8, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3These are really cliche subjects... forget the quality of the photographs themselves, most of these photos have many predecessors... actually almost all of them.
  • sharpe27, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This website has really low standards for photo of the year. There were a few good pictures, but the one of the kid could have been taken at Sears.
  • Andross01, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Magnum has some of the best photographers in the world.
    AP Wire has some of the best photographers in the world.
    Getty has some of the best photographers in the world.
    National Geographic has some of the best photographers in the world.
    But this site....Best photographers in the world? Judging from this sample, I strongly disagree.
  • MaceSoul, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0It never ceases to amaze me how easily the "breath" of Digg submittors is "taken".

    Nice pictures, sure, but breathtaking? Hell no.

    (why does the picture of the baby bird remind me of Britney Spears?)
    • Socos, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0*cue self-deprecating slashdot -esque remark about pimply guy in parent's basement & not getting out much.

      Seriously though, there are 6+billion of us here. A fair amount have cameras. A fair amount publish their photos in some way shape or form. I'd say damn near everything is "cliched" by now. Its just the degree that matters.

      I'm a member of dgrin - have been for a while. These are the winners of the past year's contests, paired down by a few more rounds of voting. Each contest has a subject to be interpreted. So if you like some but not others, go back and look at the old contests - you'll find the shots from the niches you like.

      By the way, all the blatent snobs should hall your a-- back to photo.net
  • kryp7onik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'd have to vote for Self Portrait by davev. Simply amazing.
  • Andross01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Socos: I never said the photos were bad, I merely disagreed with the "best photographers in the world" description. That's a rather bold exaggeration. The photos are good, but I have still seen better stuff on devArt.
  • Anim8ir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1is that Esteban in the first image?
  • Socos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0If you want to nitpick, it said some of the best photographers in the world are on dgrin, not necessarily in this contest.

    Here is one of Andy's that I like... the whole site is worth perusing: http://www.moonriverphotography.com/gallery/1340265/1/7282268
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