2020 Better Photography
Photo of the Year winners are announced
(Image credit: Azim Khan Ronnie/Better Photography Magazine Photo of the Year 2020)
A stunning image of a Hindhu festival has won the top prize in this year's 2020 Better Photography Photo of the Year competition. The image has won Bangladeshi photographer Azim Khan Ronnie a total of AUS$2750 in the annual contest, scooping the overall prize as well as winning the Exotic Travel category, after gaining a Gold Award from all three of the competition judges.
“Every year, thousands of Hindu devotees gather for a religious festival in front of Shri Shri Lokenath Brahmachari Ashram temple", explains Azim Khan Ronnie. "The faithful sit in prayer surrounded by candles, named locally as Prodip. Lokenath Brahmachari, was an 18th Century Hindu saint and philosopher in Bengal. The Hindu worshippers fast and pray in earnest to the gods for their favors during a traditional ritual, called Kartik Brati or Rakher Upobash".
Other 2020 category winners were Zay Lar Yin in the Emotive Portrait category; Grant Galbraith in the Classic Landscape category, and Charles Jones in the Revealing Nature category.
Classic Landscape Category Winner, shot at Twin Falls in Moreton National Park, NSW, Australia with a Sony A7R II and a recently acquired 24-105mm Sony G series lens (Image credit: Grant Galbraith/Better Photography Magazine Photo of the Year 2020)
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