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.
Challenges are voted on by the platform's Gurus and the wider community, and there’s a fresh challenge every day. Winners can receive prizes from GuruShots' sponsors such as Adorama, Kodak, Lowepro and Lensbaby.
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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