GuruShots: Winning images from the latest Night Photography photo challenge

GuruShots - Night Photography
(Image credit: Yifan Wang - United States)

One of the greatest photo games you will ever play,  GuruShots is a super fun and competitive online platform (and app) that provides photographers with not only a place to showcase their images, but a chance to gain unmatched global exposure for their work and bag themselves some prizes and bragging rights in the process. 

There's no harm in a little friendly competition, and Gurushots will allow you to compete in epic challenges and daily battles against millions of photographers worldwide, and you can even become part of a team, too, and take on other groups together while sharing skills and connecting with other photographers. 

The idea of the game is to gradually increase your ranking from a Newbie to a Master, and then finally achieve the ultimate status of becoming a Guru. There are opportunities for your work to be exhibited in a physical gallery, published in magazines, and of course - be featured here on Digital Camera World too. 

With the latest Night Photography Challenge, we wanted you to exit light, and enter night, as Mr Sandman takes the reigns. The idea is to immortalize the enchanting secrets of the night with your camera, and show us your photographic midnight masteries – whether that's a city skyline, starry astrophotography wonders, or anything else in between – and get creative.

It's fascinating to see how other photographers might interpret a photo theme differently from you. The idea of the timed challenges is to enter images that not only fit the brief but are also unique and might give you enough of an edge to earn a Guru Pick from the creator of the challenge and votes from other players.

Winners can be in with the chance to receive prizes from GuruShots' sponsors such as Adorama, Kodak, Lowepro, and Lensbaby. The highest-ranked images from this challenge will be published in Digital Photographer Magazine, and we're pleased to showcase these images below, along with the rest of the top-featured photographs in the gallery that follows. Also, check out GuruShots’ newest app AI Art Master to compete against others with your own AI-generated images.

Top Photographer (Image credit: Bruno Ribeiro - Portugal)

Top Photo (Image credit: Jón Þórðarson - Iceland)

Guru's Top Pick (Image credit: Marko Sauna-aho - Finland)

#4 (Image credit: Darren Turner - United Kingdom)

#5 (Image credit: Liviu Ivanescu - Canada)

#6 (Image credit: Jack Zhou - Canada)

#7 (Image credit: Menim Menim - Portugal)

#8 (Image credit: Maggie - Portugal)

#9 (Image credit: Edward H Cordes - United States)

#10 (Image credit: JM Schneider - Belgium)

#11 (Image credit: Yifan Wang - United States)

#12 (Image credit: Nihad Delić - Germany)

#13 (Image credit: Gil Shmueli - Israel)

#14 (Image credit: Gwen Carr (Mama G) - United States)

#15 (Image credit: Jan Rechenberg - Germany)

#16 (Image credit: Patrick Bredimus - Luxembourg)

#17 (Image credit: Hasan Ttp - Turkey)

#18 (Image credit: Bruce Ni - China)

#19 (Image credit: Yana Raaga - Latvia)

#20 (Image credit: Amanda Peters - United States)

#21 (Image credit: Roberto Crucitti - Cambodia)

#22 (Image credit: Stephen Pitkin - Cambodia)

#23 (Image credit: David Brinkman - United States)

Here are the remaining images from the top entries in GuruShots' Night Photography contest – click on the arrows to scroll through the full gallery of entries.

To find out more about GuruShots, and to sign up and take part in the next exciting challenge, visit www.gurushots.com.

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