Landscape photo of the year 2009

Yeah agreed. Some of them look like computer gfx ffs.

I do like the shopping trolley one though and the B&W one of London. Wow, it was taken on a phone lol.
 
I was thinking exactly the same, most of the photos is processed too much and look unnatural.

If I had to pick a winner, it would be West Yorkshire During Winter by Nigel Hillie.
 
I saw this, I do agree

A few, like #2 and #4 in particular aren't bad photos but I feel like there's nothing special about them, I've seen it done before.

Mark A said:
I do like the shopping trolley one though and the B&W one of London. Wow, it was taken on a phone lol.
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I thought that it was pretty rubbish tbh!

I've seen better camera phone photos posted here.
 
Was just thinking the same. Far too much post processing imo. Nice photos none the less though, but a bit over the top.
 
The colour of that little bottom lake in 1 is almost neon blue!

Some nice pics but yes for the award I would have expected a little better, King4aDay should have entered!
 
Some one has got too excited with the processing on these!!! What ever happened to good old honest picture taking ?
 
Blimey, HDR is truly in-vogue.

I love Nigel Hillier's Hebden Bridge in Winter - but even then, I'm sceptical of how much selective desaturation's gone on there.
 
Nothing special there, King4aDay posted a Landscape pano on here a few weeks ago that beat them all into submission to be honest.
 
Oh not nice..... more OTT HDR, really starting to dislike it.... I guess people like it along with those over done "LED" TV's !!!
I agree we see better work on this forum.....
 
1st one looks horrid and very unnatural, more like crysis. I think top level competitions like this should be about what the scene looked like at the time, not what we can do with it in Photoshop afterwards.

Saying that many of these images do look rubbish on screens and are best viewed in the flesh in a gallery, I'll probably check out the exhibition at some point or another.
 
It must be HDR o'clock. Even one of our local estate agents has started using ridiculously heavy HDR processing on the esterior shots in there brochures, it's gone too far and needs to die.
 
The more I see over processing the more I think they must be compensating for bad basic skills. There have been better photographs casually posted on here as far as I'm concerned.
 
Ugh, overkill HDR and oversharpening. I think the images are badly compressed on the BBC site though, they might not be THAT bad without the bandwidth penny pinchers applied.
 
How that can win is shocking. The right hand side isnt even straight! The clouds and moutain line on the right is clearly dropping from left to right! If a technical flaw as basic as that can give you first prize then you have to doubt the judges.

It all just seems to be a list of overly processed HDR jumble.
 
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