GuruShots: Winning images from the latest Sunrise to Sunset photo challenge

GuruShots - Sunrise to Sunset
(Image credit: Gerhardt Theron - South Africa)

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 Sunrise to Sunset Challenge, we wanted you to get out there and capture the stunning early morning hues of orange and red, or the violet colours of twilight dusk that appear to us at sunset. We think some of the most breathtaking landscape shots are the more vivid ones, with some kind of silhouette subject in the foreground. But we'll leave the creativity up to you. 

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.

Top Photographer (Image credit: Julien Serarre -Mexico)

Top Photo (Image credit: Martin Filčík -Slovakia)

Guru's Top Pick (Image credit: Fiona Marshall - United Kingdom)

#4 (Image credit: Yana Raaga - Latvia)

#5 (Image credit: Daiva Ališauskienė - Lithuania)

#6 (Image credit: Laimute Kuriene - Netherlands)

#7 (Image credit: Yair Tzur - Israel)

#8 (Image credit: Salvijs Bilinskis - Latvia)

#9 (Image credit: Will’s Mainly Phone Photos - United States)

#10 (Image credit: Lynn Shelton - United States)

#11 (Image credit: Haim Berman - Israel)

#12 (Image credit: Brenda Peske - United States)

#13 (Image credit: Roy Egloff - Switzerland)

#14 (Image credit: Lynne Harpur - New Zealand)

#15 (Image credit: Cassidy Jean Thomas - United States)

#16 (Image credit: Nik Wickes - United Kingdom)

#17 (Image credit: Gerhardt Theron - South Africa)

#18 (Image credit: Zennifer I Travellers - United States)

#19 (Image credit: Nagarajan Subramanian - Germany)

#20 (Image credit: Bajkó Tamás - Hungary)

#21 (Image credit: Americo Sequeira - Portugal)

#22 (Image credit: Taylor Scepurek - United States)

#23 (Image credit: Colin Lambe - Australia)

Here are the remaining images from the top entries in GuruShots' Sunrise to Sunset 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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