Winner Takes All Photo Contest 2017 Results
With so many great entries, selecting this year’s winner was not an easy task. Photos came from all over the world for the 2017 Tail Fly Fishing Photo Contest. There were almost 200 entries and a few great stories to go along. Three winners emerged but there are so many quality photos and such a small margin of victory for all three winners. We included two honorable mention photos as well, frankly, they deserve a shout out for almost placing in a very tight competition.
This is how it was judged:
A panel of 6 Six judges were selected. Each judge picked 10 photos and ranked them 1-10. Based on the ranking receive points from 1-10 accordingly. A photo ranked #1 received 10 points, #2 – 9 points, #3 – 8 points….#10 – 1 point.
After all the selections were made and all the points were tallied, 3 photos emerged as #1, #2, #3. So without further delay, here are the 2017 photo contest winners.
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First Prize – 32 points – Greg Poland of Islamorada, Florida
His submission is a beautiful photo of a permit on a pristine flat on a perfect day.
Winner: $250 Cash, the Cover of Tail, and a VIP prize pack worth $250
Second Prize – 24 points – Arek Kubale of Lower Silesia, Poland
His photo embodies the spirit and grit of saltwater fly fishing capturing an angler coming in from the break.
Winner: VIP prize pack
Third Prize – 19 points – Alex Waller of North Island, New Zealand
Yellowtail kingfish are the the new rage and Alex and his team of guides sent us a specimen photo of a tagged yellowtail king.
Winner: large boat box, shirt and hat
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Paul Mills of New Zealand (16 points)
Another amazing shot of yellowtail kings, this time they are tailing unimpeded by anglers. A beautiful photo which still could make it to our cover list.
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Jose David Bravo Alvarez of Columbia (14 points)
Jose sent in a few photos for us to consider and all were great, high quality, print worthy shots.
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It’s not fair that so many great photos go unrecognized but we are going to make sure that does not happen. Those who did not win the contest….it’s not over. We will still make sure all of the photos appear in Tail Fly Fishing Magazine either in our intro photo montage or in a photo contest collage. Some that did not win still have cover worthy art so please wait for us to get caught up and we will reach out to you regarding your photographic art.
Just finished the dedication article on John Melfi in Jan. Feb. edition. That article and edition should be printed and made available so we can give it to our friends and grandchildren. That is what fly fishing is all about. Friendship and quality time together. Thank you John for showing us the way.
Gary Spencer, Irvine, Calif.
Hi Gary,
We would love to print it, in fact we did print a few for close friends and family. The layout and design however was our pre-print setup so it does not lends itself well to print. We have been considering running that feature again at some point. We all love and miss John, it was terrible to lose such a good guy and good friend at such a young age. Thank you for reaching out to us and remembering him.