Announcing the winner of the graphic shapes competition

We had a bumper entry to this month's graphic shapes competition and one or two are still filtering through each day. Obviously this sort of photography is easy to undertake - you don't have to engage with other (probably awkward) humans. But there is also something satisfyingly pure about creating pictures on your own terms alone with a camera and looking for pleasing images from unprepossessing subjects. Our winner is HoBo1921 and our judge, Italian photographer Christian Sinibaldi, says "I find the way she is playing with geometry intriguing. She hasn't forgotten about adding 'a bit of drama', surprising/unusual elements and point of view to the picture, using a shallow depth of field and playing with reflections. This increases the complexity of the shot and its interpretation." Christian also remarked that he "liked how the shallow focus helped to enhance the contrast between the hardness and rigidity of the metal shapes and the softness of the sky with its clouds." Other very notable entries included Angela Bridger's prismatic shot of a figure in a garden and Joe Iseard's block of flats shot in a warm, cross-light. Joe's picture could have easily humanised with a figure at one of the windows which would have made it work at a slightly different level too. This assignment has also seen a nice resurgence of the use of black and white, like Eric Hands' wrought-iron work - ideal for hard, graphic photographs.