Photographer of the Year 2009: Destination Everywhere Commended

Commended Entries
Destination Everywhere

What the judges were looking for
The judges won't just be looking for snaps of glamorous foreign locations in this category, but pictures that embrace the notion of travel. This doesn't have to be a great distance, as the category title indicates. Your picture could be taken close to home. But it should have something to say about the journey or destination.

Highly Commended
Slow Motion - Barbara Abate, Italy

"I tried to get the feeling of the journey in an interior space, beside the obvious material way. This is the essence of travelling for me."

Canon EOS 400D; Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM at 40mm; ISO 100; 1/100 sec at f/4

 
Highly Commended
Ascension 2 - Igor Chirikov, Russian Federation

"Simply a children's playground... Long live digital photography. It gives wider scope not only to mass photo production, but also to non-stop intellectual experimentation!"

Canon EOS 5D with Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM lens at 73mm; ISO 100; 1/400 sec at f/6.3

 
Commended
Sailing in Antarctic Ice - Jonathan Green, Equador

"Picking our way through the ice from the top of the mast of the Pelagic Australis. At 27m above sea level, the scene was unbelievable as we navigated through the Lemaire Channel. Our destination was unsure, because the ice conditions were changing so rapidly."

Nikon D200 with Nikkor AF-S DX 12-24mm f/4G IF ED lens at 12mm; ISO 200; 1/160 sec at f/20

See the commended entries in the other categories:
Landscapes
Planet Earth
This is Britain
People and Portraits
Man-made
World in Motion
Fashion
Black and White
Destination Everywhere
Digital Vision

Return to the main Photographer of the Year 2009 commended page
or see the full Editor's Choice shortlist