GuruShots: Winning images from the latest Winter Wonders photo challenge

GuruShots - Winter Wonders
(Image credit: Irina - Switzerland)

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 Winter Wonders Challenge, we wanted you to embrace the frost and capture the serene beauty of snow-covered landscapes, but if you don't have any snowscapes in your region then we'll settle for the intricate details of frost-kissed branches and icy surfaces instead, or even the magical glow of winter sunsets. 

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 Photography Week 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: Anca - Romania)

Top Photo (Image credit: Vali Slavu - Romania)

Guru's Top Pick (Image credit: Gianfranco Massafra - Italy)

#4 (Image credit: Irina - Switzerland)

#5 (Image credit: Will - United States)

#6 (Image credit: Zůza Kosejková - Czechia)

#7 (Image credit: Lily Xu - Germany)

#8 (Image credit: Yana Raaga - Latvia)

#9 (Image credit: Bajkó Tamás - Hungary)

#10 (Image credit: Arta Berzina - Latvia)

#11 (Image credit: Petr Moravec - Czechia)

#12 (Image credit: Guy Wilson - Israel)

#13 (Image credit: Witold Steblik - Poland)

#14 (Image credit: Jeanne - Canada)

#15 (Image credit: Norma George - Great Britain (UK))

#16 (Image credit: Juhani Pölönen - Finland)

#17 (Image credit: No Turbo Merja - Finland)

#18 (Image credit: Roxanne Collins - United States)

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

#20 (Image credit: Violetta Wieczorek Kuchciak - United States)

#21 (Image credit: Anita Hansen - Norway)

#22 (Image credit: Irene Waters - Australia)

#23 (Image credit: Csaba Petrény - Hungary)

Here are the remaining images from the top entries in GuruShots' Winter Wonders 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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