The British Wildlife Photography Award 2010 - Winners Announced

The winners of the 2010 competition have been announced. The winning photograph shows a familiar bird in its conventional setting, but the visual impact is extraordinary. Competition judge Greg Armfield from WWF said: “This is a unique and striking image. One that captures perfectly the power, chaos and intensity of the ocean as it surrounds the majestic gull.” The judges were looking for the one image that stood out, among thousands of entries, as the most memorable.
Tom Hind, competition judge from Getty Images, added: “I like the defiance in this shot - the gull’s refusal to be moved in the face of this crashing wave seems to sum up a peculiarly British stoicism! It’s also a great example of how the commonplace can be transformed in a judicious moment.
To find out more, go to the bwpawards website, here

Steve Young, Herring Gull in Wave

Animal portraits - Winner

Marcin Zagorski, Mountain Hare

Selection of the highly commended images

Des Ong, Angelic Swan

Damian Waters, Dark-eyed Deer

Danny Green, Grey Seal Pup

Animal Behaviour - Winner

Mark Smith, Coots sparring

Selection of the highly commended images

Alan Price, Lesser Redpoll feeding on dandelion seeds

Dale Sutton, Fox Pouncing

Urban Wildlife - Winner

Terry Whittaker, Canada Geese and Mallard in snow.

Highly commended

Tim Davies, Coot

Hidden Britain - Winner

Lynne Newton, Dragonflies and Dew

Selection of the highly commended images

TOBY BARTON, Mating flies

danny beath, Emerging Cranefly

Coast and Marine Winner

Steve Young, Herring Gull in Wave

Selection of the highly commended images

George Karbus, Bottlenose dolphin

MARK THOMAS, Mussels

Alexander Mustard, Cuttlefish Competition

Charles Hood, Portuguese man o’ war

Wildlife in my backyard - Winner

Phillip Thomas, Wood mouse

Highly Commended

steward ellett, Frog Spawn

Habitat - Winner

Ben Hall, Mountain hare peeping from its form in the snow

Highly commended

Chris O'Reilly, Water vole

Mark Hamblin, Mountain hare

International Year of Biodiversity 2010 - Winner

Geoff Simpson, Male Sand Lizard

British Seasons - Winner

James Yaxley, Frogs in spring

Young British Wildlife Photographer - Winner

Adam Hawtin, Blue Leaf-beetle

Top 20 iPhone Photography App Updates Today - 10/07/10

Apple have approved 20 iPhone photography apps today and they look great. Take a look at the list of updated apps below, I have included a 'What's New' section within each one for you to check out.

Hipstamatic

The Hipstamatic brings back the look, feel, unpredictable beauty, and fun of plastic toy cameras of the past! The Hipstamatic keeps the the quirks of shooting old school but gives you the ability to swap lenses, film, and flash settings all with the swipe of a finger.

What's new

NEW FEATURES
+ New toggle on the camera front to switch between High / Medium / Standard quality (Medium quality is only available on iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4)
+ EXIF / GPS metadata is now saved to the Photo Library (camera roll)

BUG FIXES
+ Fixed a bug where the app could become "stuck" in High quality mode
+ Fixed a bug where 'High Quality' mode on iPod touch was incorrectly scaling images up
+ Other bug fixed

Price: $1.99/Download

Panorama Mosaicker

Mosaicker automatically arranges and seamlessly blends multiple photos to create seamless panoramas.

What's new

Added auto crop feature.
Bug fix for very high resolution setting when processing longer videos.

Price: $1.99/Download

CamKewl

CamKewl is all-in-one app you need for camera.

What's new

* More colors in Accenting!!
* 'Movie Mode' button in options table for iPhone 3GS and iTouch4. Blitz issue fixed in iTouch4.
* Help page updated.
* Bug fixes in Accenting and overall algorithm improvement. Hi-Res Retina Display icons.

Price: $0.99/Download

Simple DoF Calculator

Simple DoF Calculator allows photographers to calculate the depth of field and hyperfocal distance for any given settings. It calculates the near limit, far limit, total depth of field, hyperfocal distance, distance in front of the subject and distance behind the subject. The app shows al those calculated values in a simple image without unnecessary information.

What's new

v2.0
- Completely new interface with better graphics for the iPhone 4
- Native iPad support
- Fast switching between 2 cameras
- New cameras can now be downloaded
- Support for backgrounding in iOS 4.0
- View distance in front of and behind focus point

v2.0.1
- Fixed crashes at startup on iOS 3.x
- Improved alerts on connection errors

v2.0.2
- Bugfix for sometimes displaying the wrong circle of confusion (iPad)
- Fixed spelling

Price: $1.99/Download

Photo Rotate

This application lets you rotate photos. Sometimes, when holding your iPhone at a strange angle and taking a photo, the orientation of the photo is incorrect. This app lets you correct the rotation of the photo, so you can view it correctly, or upload it to a site such as facebook the correct way up.

What's new

* Stability: fixed a crash that could occur
* UI Tweaks including a new Icon
* Ready for iOS 4.2

Price: $0.99/Download

WiiPhoto

WiiPhoto is an amazing couch-photo-viewing app that turns your widescreen television into a huge digital photo frame. The Wii console connected to your TV, combined with the ease-of-use of WiiPhoto makes it possible to enjoy photos from a plethora of photo sources: your iPhone/iPod touch/iPad itself, Facebook, Flickr, SmugMug or a Mac (including integrated support for iPhoto libraries).

WiiPhoto offers everything you need to share vacation photos with family and friends. Or to browse through the photo albums of your Facebook friends. Or to explore today's most interesting photos on Flickr. Imagine all these photos appearing on your television with just a few taps and without requiring any additional cables.

What's new

- modified Flickr artwork as requested by Flickr

Price: $2.99/Download

Video Edit

Video Edit is the FASTEST way to edit and render videos on the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 4G. Over 10x faster than iMovie!

What's new

★ The fastest HD rendering available
★ 10X faster than iMovie!
★ Significant user interface improvements.
★ Improved swipe to delete projects.
★ Ooodles of bug fixes

Price: $2.99/Download

GPS MapCard 2

Easily share your photo with map.

What's new

∙ Faster upload a image.
∙ Some bugs fixed.

Price: $2.99/Download

Nikon Lenses

The Nikon Lenses app is a guide to Nikon's current lineup of F-Mount lenses used by both Nikon's digital and film SLR cameras.

What's new

New Features:
Added ability to constrain displayed lenses to just DX, VR, SWM, ED, or IF flagged lenses.

Bug Fixes:
Fixed crash when tapping on lens picture.

Free/Download

Burst Mode

Grab hundreds of snapshot at a blazing rate of 24 frames per second!!!

What's new

Thumbnails view
Photo sequences
Frames stacking

Price:$1.99/Download

Explore Flickr

Want to see the most interesting, vibrant and beautiful images on flickr.com right on your iPad or iPhone? Explore Flickr will show you this stunning photography from around the world in perfect high definition.

What's new

★ Compatibility with iOS4 on iPhone.
★ Bug fixes

Free/Download

Time Lapse Photo Journal Pro (Upload & Share Videos)

Time Lapse Photo Journal makes it easy to create Photo Journals of your life by taking and adding photos of yourself, or your loved ones. Then you can play back the photos you take over the weeks, months and years, as Time Lapse video slideshows. And the video can be uploaded to Facebook and YouTube to share with your friends.

What's new

Several bug fixes and performance improvements

ShutterSnitch

Wirelessly transfer images to your iPad from your Eye-Fi card, Canon, Nikon or other filetransmitter that supports uploading to an FTP server over your wireless network.

What's new

• Progressview while receiving files from an Eye-Fi card.
• Receive photos from multiple Eye-Fi cards.
• Position counter displayed when new images arrives.
• Setting addded to turn off automatic jump to new incoming photos.
• Export selection list containing filename and star rating via E-mail.
• Added a setting to save smaller photos to the Photos app.
• Bug/security fixes

Price: $7.99/Download

CinemaFX for Video

Record videos on your iPhone and give it the hollywood glamor treatment like our CinemaFX app for photos. Go back in time and create a retro 8mm home movie. Or if you are a fan of the edgy and rich toy camera look, for the first time ever you can create toy camera style videos and share them with the world.

Price: $1.99/Download

Photopular - The Missing Flickr Client

With Photopular, you can view your Flickr.com statistics right on your iPhone or iPod Touch. (Flickr PRO account required)

What's new

- Bug fixes (when there has been no activity on your Flickr account in the last week)
- The graph is now refreshed automatically

Price: $1.99/Download

SwankoLab

Complete with smells of photo chemistry and sounds of mad science being made, your SwankoLab comes with everything you need to turn any image into a retro misprinted masterpiece. Choose chemicals, process photos, and experiment. You’re the artist / chemist / creative genius-- have fun!

What's new

NEW FEATURES
- New Chemical ‘Rasputin’ (for Stu’s Catalog subscribers)
- Support for Retina Display on iPhone 4 and iPod touch (4th generation)
- Background processing for developing prints (iOS 4 only)
- Prints can now be shared directly to Facebook from within the app
- EXIF metadata is now saved to prints recording the chemicals used (iOS 4.1 only)

BUG FIXES
- Fixes the Black & White (+ Blue) effect bug
- Other iOS 4 bug fixes

Price: $1.99/Download

iPicasso - Picasa Web Albums Manager

Now you can access all of your Picasa web albums and videos with just a single tap. Manage your photos, view your friends’ pictures and videos and more with iPicasso. You are going to love how easy this app makes the sharing and caring of your Picasa accounts. Click “...More” to learn why you should download this App today!

What's new

- ability to edit and name Picasa accounts
- friendly message when Picasa storage quota is exceeded
- localization refinements
- fix a bug that would show portrait photos as landscape
- bug fixes

Price: $2.99/Download

FoodPhotoFestival

The FOODPHOTO FESTIVAL APP is the digital planer of the first international FOODPHOTO FESTIVAL October 2010 in Tarragona, Spain.

What's new

New map and screening photographers added.

Price: $2.99/Download

FinderCam

New feature: FinderCam cleans the blue stain in the center of the camera when the picture under fluorescent lights by iPhone4. There are three levels of cleaning, please use the original photo to fit.

It supports also reading from the album, can be applied to photos taken in other apps .

What's new

minor bug fix

Price: $1.99/Download

Photo Geo

Photo Geo will allow you to review your old photos taken with the integrated iPhone camera to find out where the photo was taken. The iPhone has an accurate GPS and any photos in your camera roll that have been taken with the GPS enabled can be shown on a map with the Photo Geo. Easy to use. No extra tagging required. Simply select one of the photos in your camera roll and a map comes up showing you the location where the photo was taken.

What's new

Support for iOS 4.1

Price: $0.99/Download

Clear Cam iPhone App - On Sale

Currently on offer for a limited time priced at $0.99. This a great app especially for the iPod Touch 4th generation - download here to give it a try.

Photographer's Workflow iPhone App - *** On sale for 2 days only, 70% off ***

Photographer's Workflow was created to help photographers keep organized and focused on what needs to be done for every job. Think about how many things you need to do before and after a shoot; process payments, edit the photos, post to your blog, the list goes on and on. With Photographer's Workflow you can set reminders for all of these tasks with just a few taps on your iPhone.

Automate your todo list for each photo shoot! Also you can now choose to publish your tasks on your iPhone calendar (iOS 4 users) or Googles Calendar.

 

Photographer's Workflow provides a quick and easy way to create a series of tasks from any client project to your calendar. With just a few taps on your iPhone, Photographer's Workflow will populate your calendar with everything that needs to be done. It's quick and easy to use but also gives you the ability to customize the workflows or add your own.

Simply create a new project, pick your workflow template and a start date. The app will do the rest and populate your calendar with all of the necessary events you need to finish the job! It's a great way to stay organized and each project can be customized to fit a client's needs. Photographer's Workflow is simple to use yet powerful for almost any photography project. For example, think of how many different tasks you need to do after booking a new wedding or portrait session. You need to process the paperwork, collect payments, do all of the post production, album design, marketing tasks and many more tasks. With Photographer's Workflow, all you have to do is name your new project, tap the wedding workflow template and in a matter of seconds you will add all of the tasks to your calendar.

Photographer's Workflow comes standard with 5 sample workflow templates; New Prospect, New Client, Wedding, Portrait and Album sale. You can edit any of these workflows to fit your needs or create as many new ones as you need.

Please Note: Photographer's Workflow can only sync to your native iPhone calendar if you have iOS 4.0 installed. If you are running an older version then you have to sync with a Google Calendar account.

What's new

iPhone Native Calendar integration

Graphics optimized for iPhone 4 Retina Display

Currently $0.99/Download

Best Camera iPhone App Gets Updated

Well, it has been a bit of a wait, but now Best Camera has been updated and supports the iPhone 4 with multi-tasking, new filters, a customizable filter interface and sharing options.

What's new

• iOS 4.0 compatible, including multi-tasking
• Supports max resolution of iPhone 4 camera
• Customize dock by organizing your filters
• Partial (50%) versions of filters (in "Settings")
• Supports iPhone 4 Retina display
• Shortened bestc.am link now appears at the end of tweets
• Various bug fixes

Version 1.3/$2.99/Download here