David Marshak, our judge for the Reflections / Open competition on March 9th, has provided us with this thoughts about reflection photography. By David Marshak “I love reflections because they ask you to see the world twice—once as fact, once as mystery.” — Minor White Using reflections in photography is both easy and challenging. It’s easy because almost every scene looks good with a reflection. Nature, architecture, and travel photos particularly lend themselves to beau
Jürgen Lobert is the judge for our Machinery/Open competition on January 26, 2026. Below he talks about what constitutes a "machine" and what he'll be looking for when judging the submitted images. You can also view some of his machinery photos below. What I would expect from a competition topic “Machinery” are a number of things. First and foremost, and that applies to any special competition category, really: the topic needs to be the MAIN part of the composition as well a
