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International Garden Photographer of the Year - AP reader competition
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As promised, all 66 finalists from this year's International Garden Photographer of the Year competition, as published in AP 17 May, are now online in our Gallery section. Have another look through them and pick out your favourite image. When you have your top photographer in mind, come back to this thread and vote for him or her. Be sure also to reply to this post with your name and for whom you voted.
Voting ends at 5pm on 21 May - IGPOTY announces its winners the following day. If your favourite photographer wins the overall title of International Garden Photographer of the Year 2008, your name will then go into a virtual hat where you will have a chance at winning a signed copy of renowned garden photographer and IGPOTY judge Clive Nichols' book, 'The Art of Flower & Garden Photography'.
We will publish all the winning images and bios of the photographers in AP 31 May.
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Suna Aktas
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Stuart Allen
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Andrew Bailey
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David Ballantyne
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Pernilla Bergdahl
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Pawel Bieniewski
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Lucy Birnie
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Mark Bolton
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Alan Bryant
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Jonathan Buckley
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Matthew Bullen
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Gary Buttle
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David Chapman
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Sharkawi Che Din
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Torie Chugg
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Eric Cleavely
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Joanna Clegg
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Nikki de Gruchy
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Paul Debois
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Silvia Demetilla
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Maciej Duczynski
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Jake Eastham
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Dennis Frates
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Stuart Freedman
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Richard Freestone
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Suzie Gibbons
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Adam Gibbs
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Damian Gillie
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Sven Grafnings
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Chinch Gryniewicz
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Jakub Gwalbert
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Jerry Harpur
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Charles Hawes
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Tina Herzig
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Jill Jennings
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Robert Jones
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Sergey Karepanov
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Fiona Keene
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Daniel Kencke
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June Kingsbury
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Olegas Kurasovas
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John Macpherson
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David Maitland
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Gerald Majumdar
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Phil Mann
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Adras Meszaros
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William Pierson
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Allan Pollok-Morris
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Terry Roberts
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Colin Roberts
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Kevin Schafer
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Erwin Scheriau
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Carol Sharp
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Nick Shepherd
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Sally Smith
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Nicola Stocken-Tomkins
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Claire Takacs
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Duncan Usher
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Colin Varndell
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Diane Varner
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Michael Walker
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Too difficult to choose. I think they're all great!
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Re: International Garden Photographer of the Year - AP reader competit
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My name wasn't on the list  Shurely shome mishake 
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Dave_Cox
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(old'n'grumpy)
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09/05/2008 21:13
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Re: International Garden Photographer of the Year - AP reader competit
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Voted for Jakub Gwalbert,'Secret'
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Bettina
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(Kein Titel)
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09/05/2008 22:37
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Re: International Garden Photographer of the Year - AP reader competition
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I voted for Diane Varner. Great shot. Loved it. Also liked Pawel Bieniewski's. But then, what do I know. I always get it wrong anyway. 
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OneTen
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('Two Breakfasts')
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10/05/2008 08:15
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Re: International Garden Photographer of the Year - AP reader competition
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I voted for Claire Takacs, 'Kenrokuen Gardens, Kanazawa, Japan'.
Richard Hardwick
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Wheelu
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(member)
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11/05/2008 03:47
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Jerry Harper, a conventional shot, but capturing what I love about gardens.
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Rhys
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(Sasquatch)
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14/05/2008 00:37
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Tina Herzig, 'Eustoma'
Love the colour and texture, very nice pic.
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Andrew Bailey - 'Robin Tugging Earthworm'
nicely composed 'action' shot
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emkay
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(newbie)
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18/05/2008 10:51
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Diane Varner's image is my choice.
Martin
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Alig
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(newbie)
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18/05/2008 14:06
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Diane Varner's image really stands out in terms of subject matter.
Alison
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Re: International Garden Photographer of the Year - AP reader competit
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Whilst the idea of doing the gardening with a camera sounds rather unusual, there are certainly a number of cameras I can think of, which deserve to be buried in it, the main contender being Dixon's Kowa 35mm SLR of the late 60s, early 70s with a leaf shutter, it's design inspired by Zeiss's Contaflex. The 'reliability' of this camera was such that it just managed to keep on working until the warranty had run out, and then users discovered that not even the most masochistic of repairers would touch it with a barge-pole, for it was likely to commit Hara Kari again within a couple of months.
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