December 2023 "Frame within a Frame" Photo Contest Winners

Announcing the winners of our monthly contest

By PF Staff in Photo Contests on Jan 24, 2024

"Frame within a Frame" by henrikpedersen33

It is our pleasure to announce the winners of our December, 2023 "Frame within a Frame" photo contest! In first place was forum member henrikpedersen33 from Denmark who captured "Frame within a Frame" (pictured above). This photo was shot with a Pentax K-S2 and an HD Pentax-DA 16-85mm F3.5-5.6 ED DC WR lens.

Our runners-up were forum member Barna from England in second place with "Magic via Viaduct" and othar from Austria in third place with "Inside". Click on either thumbnail for a larger version.

"Magic via Viaduct" by Barma	"Inside" by othar

We'd like to congratulate the winners and also thank everyone who participated or voted! Also, be sure not to miss our current photo contest, "Best of 2023". Read all about it here.

December "Frame within a Frame" Contest Finalists Announced

Vote for the overall winner!

By PF Staff in Photo Contests on Jan 16, 2024

After the end of the nomination phase of last month's official Frame within a Frame photo contest, we're now ready to announce our top 15 finalists!  Click on the link below to view the photos in full size and cast your vote in the poll:

Vote for your favorite photo in the poll

As usual for our monthly photo contests, voting closes in a week, and then we'll announce the winners.

Don't miss our January Best of 2023 photo contest, which closes to submissions at the end of the month.

The Making of "North Tower"

How the winning photo of the "Towers and Spires" contest was made

By mikeSF in Photo Contests on Jan 3, 2024

"North Tower" by mikeSF

In the San Francisco bay, the coastal fog behaves like a dynamic living organism, rolling in and retracting without predictability. Such behaviour has led this photographer to join the silent ranks of faceless others, dedicated to the weekend morning pursuit of the elusive "low fog event", when fog is compacted by low water temps and other factors such that it lays in just over the deck of the Golden Gate Bridge at sunrise. In years of chasing my personal "LFE", I've only really experienced it half a dozen times, and photographed it even less.

Announcing Our January, 2024 Photo Contest

Win a gift card and other prizes in our monthly photo contest

By PF Staff in Photo Contests on Jan 2, 2024

We're herewith announcing our monthly photo contest for January. The theme for this month is Best of 2023.

Show us your best photo taken in 2023! It can be any topic as long as it is from 2023 and taken with a Pentax or Ricoh camera. Good luck!

First prize is a $50 gift card to B&H Photo, second prize is a one year forum account upgrade, and third prize is a box of photo paper form Red River.

The official contest rules are found here.

Click here to submit a photo for the contest.

If you haven't done so already we invite you to browse our special gallery of last month's photo contest submissions and nominate your favorites.

November 2023 "Towers and Spires" Photo Contest Winners

Announcing the winners of our monthly contest

By PF Staff in Photo Contests on Dec 26, 2023

"North Tower" by mikeSF

It is our pleasure to announce the winners of our November, 2023 "Towers and Spires" photo contest! In first place was forum member mikeSF from USA who captured "North Tower" (pictured above). This photo was shot with a Pentax 645Z and an smc Pentax-FA 645 150mm F2.8 lens.

Our runners-up were forum member scotjames from UK in second place with "Scottish Spires" and (after a draw) mgrundmo from Germany in third place with "Eiffel Tower". Click on either thumbnail for a larger version.

"Scottish Spires" by scotjames	"Eiffel Tower" by mgrundmo

We'd like to congratulate the winners and also thank everyone who participated or voted! Also, be sure not to miss our current photo contest, "Frame within a Frame". Read all about it here.