GuruShots: Winning images from the latest Summer Moments photo challenge

GuruShots - Summer Moments
(Image credit: Mara Price - 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 Summer Moments Challenge, we wanted you to show us your best summer shots and capture the true essence of the season. This could be landscape shots of sun-soaked beaches, portraits at vibrant outdoor festivals, or candids captured of lazy days by the pool. However you vibe with summer, we want to see it. 

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 PhotoPlus Magazine, and we're pleased to showcase these images below, along with the rest of the top-featured photographs in the gallery that follows.

Top Photographer (Image credit: Martin Filčík - Slovakia)

Top Photo (Image credit: Olga Robertson - United States)

Guru's Top Pick (Image credit: Andrey Shiller - Czech Republic)

#4 (Image credit: Silviu Dan - Romania)

#5 (Image credit: Laimute Kuriene - Netherlands)

#6 (Image credit: Yaron Tal - Israel)

#7 (Image credit: Roy Egloff - Switzerland)

#8 (Image credit: Simona L. Neumann - Romania)

#9 (Image credit: michaelwidmer - United States)

#10 (Image credit: Andy Steward - United Kingdom)

#11 (Image credit: Americo Sequeira - Portugal)

#12 (Image credit: Mara Price - United States)

#13 (Image credit: Erika Ringstad - United States)

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

#15 (Image credit: Gloria Tunn - Canada)

#16 (Image credit: Drahuška Bechyňová - Czech Republic)

#17 (Image credit: Xan White - Switzerland)

#18 (Image credit: Bryony Herrod-Taylor - United Kingdom)

#19 (Image credit: Michael Laux - Switzerland)

#20 (Image credit: Grozdan Banev - Bulgaria)

#21 (Image credit: Debbie Squier-Bernst - Canada)

#22 (Image credit: blake.anthony - United States)

#23 (Image credit: maxdeface - France)

The remaining images from the top entries in GuruShots' Summer Moments contest can be found above – 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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