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Best icon winner: Darrell Godliman
London is chock full of photo icons – from classics such as Tower Bridge, Elizabeth Tower and red public phone boxes, to more contemporary images like the London Eye, the Gherkin and many more. In this category, we wanted to challenge our readers to give the iconic sights a fresh creative slant, or just go for the tried and tested, but do it really brilliantly and differently for eye-catching images. It was a challenge many entrants grabbed most enthusiastically.
For this year’s Photo 24 we were forecast a good
sunrise. Keen to make the most of it, I abandoned my comfy MPB beanbag and headed down to the Thames with time to spare. Shooting towards the sun with my long lens, I used my hand to block the flare. Then I realised that, if I dropped my hand a little bit further, I could use it to improvise a graduated filter effect. It was then just a case of waiting for a bus to pass and pressing the shutter at the optimum moment”
Darrell Godliman
SUNRISE OVER ST PAUL’S Nikon D500 in aperture-priority AE with 80-200mm f/2.8 at 200mm, 1/640sec at f/8 and ISO 200
Best icon: shortlisted
EDITOR’S COMMENT Best icon is probably the category that inspires me most, seeing how other creative minds interpret much-photographed scenes and subjects. This year saw many stunning shots
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