Emmanuel is a good photographer - very good by all accounts - but not the best who entered the competition. Nor is his photograph the best that entered the competition. You obviously disagree.
You would have said the same thing to Steiglitz I'm sure. (I should have added theDJ wrote: Why not just let it all go? Just take the photos you want to take, and don't worry about whoever might have taken it before. You're not going to become the first landscape photography multi-millionaire, you're unlikely to lauded in the annals of history as a photographic visionary ( those days are gone ), you're not going to save the planet ( yes I know who Peter Dombrovskis is ), but you might make somebody smile. Is that so bad a reward?

Tim