We’re three weeks into the 2017 Mark Gunter Photographer of the Year Awards, and we’ve been absolutely blown away by the quality of the submissions. With participants from 24 countries so far, the awards have a distinctly international flavour, showcasing the beauty of cycling anywhere from the cold of Iceland to the heat of India.
We’ve previously shared with you the best of week one and week two – if you haven’t checked them out yet, do yourself a favour!
These awards, now in the second year, are an incredible showcase for talented photographers worldwide, but they have a much deeper significance than just that. Established in honour of the late Mark Gunter, a well-respected Australian photographer who tragically lost his life to cancer in late 2015, the awards are a fundraiser for some highly worthy causes. All entry fees support Tour de Cure, the Australian Cancer Research Foundation and Young Cyclist Development. Cancer’s a horrible, indiscriminate illness that touches almost everybody’s life in some way, so even if you don’t have a picture to enter, we welcome tax-deductible donations.
The competition is close to wrapping up, and will end on January 4th, 2018. If you haven’t yet entered, there’s still time – Enter now.
This year, thanks to our generous sponsors, there are some great prizes on offer:
PROFESSIONAL CATEGORY:
1st place: Cycling Photographer of the Year trophy & medallion
2nd place: Cycling Photographer of the Year medallion
3rd place: Cycling Photographer of the Year medallion
ENTHUSIAST:
1st place: Specialized Allez road bike
2nd place: Olympus PEN-F camera kit
3rd place: Silca floor pump
SMARTPHONE/ACTION CAM:
2nd place: Shimano Dura Ace Di2 disc groupset
3rd place: Stages power meter
Professional category
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- Brian Hodes – Lines
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- Brian Megens – The spectator and Niki Terpstra at 6 Day Rotterdam 2017
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- Eloise Mavian – Vincenzo Nibali had an awesome victory in the 16th stage of the Giro d’Italia, with a memorable Stelvio descent. Here is a little part of it with a memory of Scarponi.
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- Ian Walton – Bastille Day done. Foix.
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- Matt Ben Stone – At sunrise in the Kent lanes, what Sunday’s are all about.
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- Philipp Hympendahl – Team Sky on the last laps at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, in front of the Hotel de la Marine. Shot on a analog panorama camera on film. Can be enlarged up to 3m.
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- Rhode van Elsen – Shadowrider. Tiesj Benoot – ITT Baloise Belgium Tour 2017
Enthusiast category
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- Alexander Steinker – Cold Morning on the Blue Ridge Parkway Viaduct.
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- Alistair Merrifield – Early morning light on a cold morning to Wisemans Ferry.
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- Bohdan Lozytskyy – I did some photo shooting races in this area already. So decided to take a little bit different approach this time. Actually, this guy was posing for another photographer but it ended up like this from my point of view.
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- Chenthil Mohan – Canopy – Tour of Nilgiris
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- Chris Kendall – Grey Britain. Keadby Swing Bridge frames the breakaway tearing through Scunthorpe in the 2017 Tour of Britain.
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- Chris Wallis – Hiding in the crowd
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- Clive Roper – Magnificent weather with a painted sky greeted the competitors in the Bothwell Roubaix held in the central highlands of Tasmania.
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- Deven Mccoy – Winter in the Dalles
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- Edward Dorsey – This CX course in Santa Cruz, CA, featured a tight and dusty section of MTB singletrack – here Melvictor Tiongson battled through the dust kicked up by those before him.
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- Emanuele Barbaro – The first man on the moon! (with bicycle). Francesco Dolfo in action at the 2017 Cyclocross Singlespeed World Championship in Verona.
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- Freek Geurts – A friend (on the picture) and I cycled the Stelvio to climb the legendary mountain. Although we are quite competitive, we must have stopped for an hour in total to take pictures, the views were just amazing and kept on getting better. After hours of climbing, the Stelvio rewarded us this view. Its signature corners cropped into one frame, covered in snow and clouds. Its one of these moments you truly realise you can climb the mountain but you can never conquer it.
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- Harry Toumbos – Cleaning up after the festivities of the 2017 TDU Willunga Hill climb
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- John Braynard – It rained all week. It finally stopped so we did one of the local Salzburg classic routes. When the ride started the sky was filled wish sky. On the descent back down home we we’re given this amazing sunset. I make it a habit to be on the bike at sunset as much as possible, and this sunset was the prettiest I have ever seen.
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- Phil Blair – Rainy Day in the Park
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- Rasmus Pellizotti – Riding through the dark winter in Scandinavia is not always pleasant but strengthens your morale and the reward coming back home – having completed a ride makes it worth it. Always.
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- Reid Neureiter – 2017 Colorado State Cyclocross Championships in Westminster City Park, Westminster, Colorado. The course involved a section that required running up portions of a long set of concrete stairs. This was shot with a zoom lens from perhaps 100 yards away to flatten the image and give the impression the rider was scaling a vertical wall.
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- Scott – Hal waiting for a mate
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- Sébastian Bouchard – Girona is a destination that every serious cyclist wants to visit at least once. Last spring, after a long canadian winter, I decided I needed this. I rented a apartment right in the center of the old city and settled for 10 days of pure bliss. I rode with pros, met so many incredible people from all around the world and experienced the tightest cycling community I ever had the chance to meet. This was taken early morning while drinking a coffee on the balcony.
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- Wouter Hoogenboom – Reflections at Floyd Bennet Field, Brooklyn, New York City.
Smartphone/action cam category
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- Alex Henderson – The White roads of Tuscany (June 7). It would be fair to say that I enjoyed riding the gravel more than my travel companions! (taken with an iPhone6S)
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- Kathryn Randle – Into the fog – R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant
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- Philly Williams – I’ve loved watching my brother teach his son to ride and enjoy being on bikes. I can’t wait to do the same with my own.
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- Wouter Hoogenboom – 5am team training at Grant’s Tomb, New York City.
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- Andy Rogers – Dusty Summer nights.
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- John Braynard – Just above Salzburg sits this hidden switchback. Not many locals even know about it. The road is one of the steepest in the area, so not many of the people that know about it want to ride up it. This is a simple GoPro drone shot during a perfect sunset.
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- Jon Turner – That moment when you have the whole mountain to yourself. Ascending the Col du L’Iseran in perfect conditions – May 2017
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- Randall Fransen – This little overpass is the best way home from a lot of rides in Portland. Hidden in a neighborhood, it’s always a challenge to capture something just barely decent. I love little urban gems that pop up even after scenic rides outside the city.
What’s your favourite photo from this week?