{"id":774369,"date":"2026-07-02T13:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/774369\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:43:10","slug":"2026-iphone-photography-awards-show-old-models-still-cut-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/774369\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 iPhone Photography Awards show old models still cut it"},"content":{"rendered":"

The winners of the 2026 iPhone<\/a> Photography Awards have been announced, with many of them taken using older iPhones, including an iPhone 8 Plus. <\/p>\n

The 2026 IPPA winners<\/a> were announced after entries from more than 140 countries were submitted. Four overall winners were announced, ranging from Grand Prix to Bronze. <\/p>\n

Category winners, runners-up, and honorable mentions were also shared, giving us a wider look at the quality of images that were submitted this year. <\/p>\n

Life in the old dog (and cat) yet<\/p>\n

The overall winner was Robyn Jenson, who used an iPhone 15 Pro<\/a> to capture a stunning shot of an erupting volcano. Gold went to Gellert Gombai, whose grayscale shot of two children was taken on an aging iPhone X. <\/p>\n

\"Sidebyside<\/a><\/p>\n

Some winners were more colorful than others – image credit iPhone Photography Awards<\/p>\n

Arnold Plotnick captured a cat on an iPhone 16<\/a> Pro for silver, while Catherine Wang used an iPhone 16 Pro Max to capture a shot of colorful melons and a bird. <\/p>\n

Gombai’s iPhone X wasn’t the only older iPhone to steal the show, either. Barry Mayes used an iPhone 8 Plus to win the “Abstract” category. That phone was released alongside the iPhone X in 2017. <\/p>\n

Moving through the list of runners-up and honorable mentions included an even older iPhone. Diego Schutt used an iPhone 7 Plus, while an iPhone 6s and iPhone 6 Plus also made an appearance elsewhere. <\/p>\n

While the majority of the category-winners used more modern phones, it’s impressive that older models are still producing such stunning photos. It may also highlight just how small recent iPhone camera upgrades have been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The winners of the 2026 iPhone Photography Awards have been announced, with many of them taken using older…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,63,203,105],"class_list":["post-774369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}