The Vivian Maier Contest winner is Ellen Richardson

[NY_Dan]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Obvious, straight, no-brainier, well deserved win. Respect for organizers.

 

[Timmyjoe]

Congratulations Ellen, and to everyone who entered. Some really nice work.

 

[xyz3450]

Congratulations Ellen! Well done, an excellent photograph!

 

[Richard G]

Congratulations Ellen. You now have a backup Rolleiflex. Or worse, the kickstart of a collection. Good competition and some great photos.

 

[sara]

Ahh great photo, well done Ellen!!
And of course everyone else 🙂

 

[Keith]

Congratulations on punching a hole in RFF's glass ceiling. And a great image. 🙂

 

[Coopersounds]

good job Ellen, a well deserving photo

 

[Erik van Straten]

But, I'm a bit 😕😱:bang: by the low voter turnout. Was it too hard to vote? How can we increase the voter turnout for next time? It looks like there were only about 150 votes cast which is pretty low.

I think it is better if the contest is done in a "normal thread" instead of via the "Gallery". Taking part in the contest was really complicated and confusing. Voting too.

Erik.

 

[Lss]

But, I'm a bit 😕😱:bang: by the low voter turnout. Was it too hard to vote? How can we increase the voter turnout for next time?

A good start is knowing there is a competition you can vote in. I have only seen this results thread myself, and it doesn't say what the competition was about, when it ran and so on. I gather from the images that it was likely related to people photography.

Anyway, congrats to the winner.

 

[radi(c)al_cam]

I think it is better if the contest is done in a "normal thread" instead of via the "Gallery". Taking part in the contest was really complicated and confusing. Voting too.

Erik.

Erik, you are SOOOO European, you do expect that an election should work the 😱 European 😱 way, eh?


Congrats, Ellen! 😀

 

[Chromacomaphoto]

Congrats, when I looked at that shot, it really hit the spot for the stated criteria perfectly! Well done.

 

[lynnb]

Well done Ellen, a deserving win!

 

[Sarcophilus Harrisii]

Congratulations, Ellen.
What impresses me is that Ellen made this photo on only her first or second roll ever of medium format film, and after beginning to shoot with a TLR for the first time just the previous day. It was one she made over the course of the weekend when she flew down to Hobart to stay with Tammy and myself in Tasmania a couple of months ago. Ellen took the winning photo at Hobart's popular Salamanca Market on the Saturday, and that evening, I had the privilege of guiding her through the process of loading some rolls into a daylight tank and developing them. She developed the FP4+ with my usual choice of developer, ID-11, mixed at 1 + 3 dilution at a temp of 20C for 20 minutes, incidentally.

I think Ellen has a good eye for an image and is naturally gifted in this way, she's 26 and has only been shooting with film for just a few months using a Canon AE-1. She seems completely hooked on film, has great passion for photography and is also a very good writer, which will be evident from some of the stories of her travels throughout New Zealand in her blog (which is sometimes NSFW, by the way). I find it very encouraging that someone her age is so excited about making film images, and is doing it so well.

Here's a photo (it's just a quick snap I made with my iPhone) of Ellen taking her very first medium format image with a Rolleicord Va that I spent a lot of time repairing for her, on the afternoon before she recorded what became the winning entry, at Hobart's privately-owned Museum of Old and New Art.

Cheers
Brett

 

[fireblade]

Deserving winner indeed....and great images all round.

 

[skopar steve]

Congratulations, Ellen.
What impresses me is that Ellen made this photo on only her first or second roll ever of medium format film, and after beginning to shoot with a TLR for the first time just the previous day. It was one she made over the course of the weekend when she flew down to Hobart to stay with Tammy and myself in Tasmania a couple of months ago. Ellen took the winning photo at Hobart's popular Salamanca Market on the Saturday, and that evening, I had the privilege of guiding her through the process of loading some rolls into a daylight tank and developing them. She developed the FP4+ with my usual choice of developer, ID-11, mixed at 1 + 3 dilution at a temp of 20C for 20 minutes, incidentally.

I think Ellen has a good eye for an image and is naturally gifted in this way, she's 26 and has only been shooting with film for just a few months using a Canon AE-1. She seems completely hooked on film, has great passion for photography and is also a very good writer, which will be evident from some of the stories of her travels throughout New Zealand in her blog (which is sometimes NSFW, by the way). I find it very encouraging that someone her age is so excited about making film images, and is doing it so well.

Here's a photo (it's just a quick snap I made with my iPhone) of Ellen taking her very first medium format image with a Rolleicord Va that I spent a lot of time repairing for her, on the afternoon before she recorded what became the winning entry, at Hobart's privately-owned Museum of Old and New Art.

Cheers
Brett

Thanks for adding the back story of the winning photographer. An example of passion for the medium trumping gear.

 

[pyeh]

Well done, Ellen. Good work indeed.

 

[SolaresLarrave]

Ellen's photograph was great, but so were the rest of the submissions. Never have I seen such a collection of really breathtaking images all together. Ellen's was very original, don't get me wrong... and it was hard competition. Now I want to see more of her work.

Hmmmm... perhaps the reason this image won is that it wasn't as "Argusian" as many of the other contestant's. In any case, congratulations to you, and I know your well-earned Rolleiflex will take you far in your creative endeavors. 🙂

 

[KM-25]

Huh.....interesting.....

 

[mslatfly]

Congratulations Ellen! That was a really interesting shot, and well thought out.