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The previous winner, Claudi Lourens from
Frankfort, received a R1 000 cash prize for
the April competition, for her photo ‘Reën-
boogwortels uit ons plaasgroentetuin
’
.
Read more about the
importance of colour in
photography.
RELEVANT
Photo competition
Why is colour
important?
A
ccording to the photographer Mitchell Kanashkevich
colour can be used to communicate on an emotional
level. ‘Everyone responds when the image makes them
feel something. Colour plays a part in evoking emotions.
Visual story-telling (which is what we do with photography) is
all about drawing attention to what is important to the story and
keeping our gaze there. Colour helps with that a lot.
‘After all, isn’t the purpose of almost any photograph to share a
story or a moment and to tell others how exciting, interesting or
magical something was?’
We look forward to all the creative photos over the next few
months portraying the ‘colour’ theme.
SA GRAAN/GRAIN
EDITORIAL STAFF
In third place is Petro Sutherland from Hopetown with her photo ‘Die
groen en goud van landbou’.
Werner van Niekerk from Bothaville’s photo ‘Herfshoop’ of a yellow
canary nest with eggs in it on top of a sunflower head received a
second place.
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rd
2
nd