Billed as the world's greatest photo game, GuruShots is an online platform that provides a fun, structured way to showcase your images while gaining global exposure for your work.
By competing in epic challenges against millions of photographers, you can get instant feedback from over three billion monthly votes and increase your ranking from Newbie to achieve the ultimate status (and bragging rights) of Guru.
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The 'Beautiful Still Life' challenge focused on the classic definition: the “depiction of inanimate subject matter, typically a small group of objects,” from heirlooms to flowers to food. The winners, and a selection of commended images, were published in Digital Camera Magazine and we're pleased to share the top 102 photographs right here.
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Top Photographer – #1: Jakub Potoczek / m00zgy (Poland) (Image credit: Jakub Potoczek) Top Photo – #2: Grzegorz Pudlo (Poland) (Image credit: Grzegorz Pudlo) Guru's Top Pick – #3: Ioana Costea (Romania) (Image credit: Ioana Costea) #9: Kai-T Stoeyva (Norway) (Image credit: Kai-T Stoeyva) #10: Alissa Nabiullina (Kazakhstan)
#37: panagiotis pitsoulis (Greece) (Image credit: panagiotis pitsoulis) #40: Katalin Galgóczy (Hungary) (Image credit: Katalin Galgóczy) #59: Melissa Rensen (Canada) (Image credit: Melissa Rensen) #84: Jayden Yoon ZK (United States) Top 102 shots Here are the top 102 images from GuruShots' Striking Shots challenge, including the Top Photographer, Top Photo and Guru's Top Pick. Click on the arrows to scroll through the gallery of images!
Image 1 of 102 Top Photographer: Jakub Potoczek (m00zgy) - Poland Image 2 of 102 Top Photo: Grzegorz Pudlo - Poland (Image credit: Grzegorz Pudlo) Image 3 of 102 Guru's Top Pick: Ioana Costea - Romania Image 4 of 102 VG Photography - Bulgaria Image 5 of 102 Arne Jansen - Norway Image 6 of 102 Gabriel Fox - Brazil Image 7 of 102 Margarida Afonso Silva - Portugal Image 8 of 102 Richard Banton - Great Britain Image 9 of 102 Kai-T Stoeyva - Norway Image 10 of 102 Alissa Nabiullina - Kazakhstan Image 11 of 102 Zsuzsa Balog - Hungary Image 12 of 102 althece photo - France Image 13 of 102 Kylie Layt - Australia Image 14 of 102 Jenn Vicious - United States Image 15 of 102 Eduarda Freitas - Portugal Image 16 of 102 Damir Fratric - Croatia Image 17 of 102 fabrizia chiappa - Italy Image 18 of 102 Raimondas Zavackis - United Kingdom Image 19 of 102 Markku Ahtola - Finland Image 20 of 102 Grietien van der Wal - Netherlands Image 21 of 102 Janell Inman - United States Image 22 of 102 simon.redfern - United Kingdom Image 23 of 102 Rita Limao - Portugal Image 24 of 102 Jelena Dragosavljevic - Serbia Image 25 of 102 Tsaganos Panagiotis - Greece Image 26 of 102 Michael Priddey - United Kingdom Image 27 of 102 Vasilis Paterousis - Greece Image 28 of 102 Hajdu Krisztina - Hungary Image 29 of 102 Edrin Spahiu - Albania Image 30 of 102 Fabio Brocchi - Italy Image 31 of 102 Aleksandr Maksimov - Russia Image 32 of 102 Zdenek Toman - South Africa Image 33 of 102 Calin Trestian - Romania Image 34 of 102 Adrian Minda - Germany Image 35 of 102 Bryle Tristan Gaylor - United States Image 36 of 102 Nicole Maree - Australia Image 37 of 102 panagiotis pitsoulis - Greece Image 38 of 102 Kostas Zannaras - Greece Image 39 of 102 Andrejs Travkins - Latvia Image 40 of 102 Katalin Galgóczy - Hungary Image 41 of 102 christinesartventures - Singapore Image 42 of 102 Sridhar Setty - United States Image 43 of 102 Regina De - Germany Image 44 of 102 samlos5962 - Italy Image 45 of 102 Anton Mes - Netherlands Image 46 of 102 Massimiliano Busnelli - Italy Image 47 of 102 christianbailly - France Image 48 of 102 Sergey Demchenko - Ukraine Image 49 of 102 Erin Childs - United States Image 50 of 102 Alexandr Malyshev - Russia Image 51 of 102 Mirjana Bocina-Anabella - Croatia Image 52 of 102 kuriene - Netherlands Image 53 of 102 Yana Raaga - Latvia Image 54 of 102 Bill Gordon - Australia Image 55 of 102 Olga Ivanova - Latvia Image 56 of 102 Martyna Masłowiecka - Poland Image 57 of 102 Eva Gabriella Garay - Hungary Image 58 of 102 sukkeri - Finland Image 59 of 102 Melissa Rensen - Canada Image 60 of 102 Kathy McCabe - United States Image 61 of 102 Богдан Бігун - Ukraine Image 62 of 102 Luis Talon - Spain Image 63 of 102 Ida Christin Foss - Norway Image 64 of 102 Michelle Jackson - United Kingdom Image 65 of 102 Lachlan Downey - Australia Image 66 of 102 Dörte Paschke - Germany Image 67 of 102 Sarah Hitzfelder - United States Image 68 of 102 Olga Krok - Finland Image 69 of 102 Amy Chesley - United States Image 70 of 102 paula.9616 - United States Image 71 of 102 Alex Lyons - Great Britain Image 72 of 102 S.Sprick - Germany Image 73 of 102 wojtekp08 - United Kingdom Image 74 of 102 Luca Nebuloni - Italy Image 75 of 102 IlonaVeres - Hungary Image 76 of 102 John Leiby - United States Image 77 of 102 Ne Da - Belgium Image 78 of 102 pacificview - United States Image 79 of 102 Twiggy aka Twig - France Image 80 of 102 Sylvain Perrier - Canada Image 81 of 102 Kevin Powers - Germany Image 82 of 102 Fanny Lim - Hong Kong Image 83 of 102 Francois Duminy - South Africa Image 84 of 102 Jayden Yoon ZK - United States Image 85 of 102 Juri Tamborelli - Italy Image 86 of 102 Ineke Huethorst - Netherlands Image 87 of 102 Judit Mikol - Australia Image 88 of 102 Liz Picton - United Kingdom Image 89 of 102 Gillian Laverty - United Kingdom Image 90 of 102 Evgeni Leznik - United States Image 91 of 102 Catherine Litster - United Kingdom Image 92 of 102 Adria Gutierrez - Mexico Image 93 of 102 Kestutis Nikolajevas - United States Image 94 of 102 Nechițelea Fanica - Romania Image 95 of 102 István Héjja - Hungary Image 96 of 102 Goher Nayab - United Kingdom Image 97 of 102 Rafael Hashimoto - Brazil Image 98 of 102 Nemo Beads - Croatia Image 99 of 102 Charel Bezuidenhout - South Africa Image 100 of 102 Ruth Ranson - Australia Image 101 of 102 Luminita Saic - Romania Image 102 of 102 rrowell1224 - United States Other GuruShots contests:
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