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International Aperture Awards Prize Winners Announced


First Prize 2010 International Aperture Awards
Open Category
(c) Daniel Cedras, Florida
 Well it's not me carrying off the $US20,000 in cash and a set of Whise Electrostatic studio speakers valued at $US17,000 tonight unfortunately.

Daniel Cedras of Florida is the lucky winner of this year's open award with his photo of an egret in flight on a white background.

Congratulations, Daniel.

Stats for this year's contest were:

Entries from 91 Countries
Overall Entries: 3587
Photographers: 1225
Platinum Awards: 0.06%
Gold Awards: 1.73%
Silver Awards: 14.56%
Bronze Awards: 38.43%

My 4 entries all garnered bronze awards.








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