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This is the reason why I will never again join a competition where:
a) There is no professional jury
b) The winner is selected by public votes. (not applicable in this competition)
So thank you for that, that makes it easier.

Stol2004 said all the rest.
This deserves no further words.

a

so public votes dont count

picture i uploaded had most kudos from the community yet winner has none.

use sony products and captured on the spur of the moment yet winner looks set up.

Is the lack of EXIF data is not an anomaly? What happened with photos that do not display EXIF data in the right place but in a comment? Please re-select the winner, in the commentary everyone can enter any data. Sony is a very serious company and this contest and the prize is too large to make such errors, please disqualification of the pictures, because it is not technically correct.

Gratuliere!  Was für ein Bild. Leider sind ja noch nicht mal die Fühler scharf. Aber die Jury fand es halt am besten.

Gratuliere zum 1. Platz. VG Sonja

There was a previous winner, with a panorama photo, that had no EXIF info, but that was acceptable since he needed multiple photos combined. In this case there is no excuse. The EXIF info IS in the terms and conditions, and being a single picture I don't see why the EXIF info is missing.One possible explanation is that the photo was downloaded from Flickr(you lose the EXIF info when you download the photos from it). What if the picture doesn't belong to the winner? Anyway, Sony should behave more professionally if they want to be taken seriously in the future.

Happy to receive all your feedback and encouraged that our competitions evoke such passion. However, I think it is a little unfair to voice them here, just moments after the winner was announced. If you want to provide your feedback to me directly, or start a thread in the Community, I would be happy to take it on board and use it to help improve future competitions. In the meantime, my answers in bold to the below points.

Best regards
Lee

This is the reason why I will never again join a competition where:
a) There is no professional jury

Not strictly the case, the winners have been picked by last years winners and finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards, who also provided their time for the Master classes. Unlike the WPO, we are not in a position to have a full panel of judges on hand each month. We have however stuck to the same process for each competition we have run.

b) The winner is selected by public votes. (not applicable in this competition) The winner is not selected by public votes. We leave voting turned on so people can give their appreciation. It has not say on the final winner. This is not a popularity contest after all.
So thank you for that, that makes it easier.

Glückwunsch an den Gewinner!

Man kann sich immer über die Auswahl des Gewinners streiten, allerdings sollte man hier auch die subjektive Sicht von Krasimir Matarov akzeptieren.

Trotzdem hat das Bild den Vogel abgeschossen: Das Siegerbild ist mit einer Nikon!!!! gemacht.

Das gehört sicherlich nicht in einen Wettbewerb von Sony.

(Das erinnert mich an eine Misswahl von etlichen Jahren bei der die Siegerin ein Kerl war).

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