Peter Delaney (Ireland) won the Wildlife Black and White Photographer of the Year 2011 award for 'Big foot'. Peter's day didn't start well. It was cold. He was sitting in a hide near a waterhole in South Africa's Mapungubwe Game Reserve, Limpopo, and he had forgotten not only his short lens but also his coffee flask. 'To say I was a little irritated would be an understatement,' he says, an irritation magnified when a huge herd of elephants came to within 20 metres (65 feet) of the hide. 'The elephants were playing and bathing, but the only thing I could do was shoot close-ups.' Soon, though, Peter became so engrossed in the detail of texture, tone and light that nothing else mattered. 'It made me realize that sometimes we can be spoilt by too much choice of equipment, and how creativity can often emerge from constraint.'

"It’s interesting. We found Legadema when she was an 8 day old leopard cub and followed her for 4 and a half years. She won our hearts and in many ways turned us from being filmmakers into strong advocates for big cats. Then she won the hearts of millions of people via our film Eye of the Leopard and then again, via Living with Big Cats and its she who became the ambassador. Today, (as you can see from the images) she presides over Regents Street in London for two months and over a few hour period we tested the response to the passing London people and 1 in 4 stopped and looked into those eyes, that’s 1 in 4 people who are probably less likely to kill a leopard, less likely to condone hunting. She is still working her magic."

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One of the worlds most successful photographers Nadav Kander born in Israel, brought up and schooled in South Africa and moved to London in the Eighties, had the unprecedented accolade of being asked by the director of photography for the New York Times magazine Kathy Ryan to photograph Obama's people.

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SONY 2009 PROFOTO LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD was bestowed on Dennis da Silva Having been involved in photography, chemical processing, lithographic reproduction and printing all his working life, Dennis has a repertoire of expertise that few can match and that has been gained through 40 years of hands-on experience. For example, he was one of only a very few technicians in Africa to have mastered the beautiful Kodak Dye Transfer process. Dennis has traveled extensively around England, Europe, and America sharing his knowledge and experience, and continues to keep in close contact with industry forerunners throughout the world about new techniques, technologies and method improvements, thereby ensuring Silvertone is consistently able deliver the highest standard of work. Dennis’s intense love for the photographic image, his eye for composition and artistic expression, and his unwavering support of the medium of photography. His insight into the art of photographic expression has resulted in his informed opinion being sought out by many photographers around the world.

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