Photo Challenge '09 Voting Poll - Tranquillity

[Chris of Arabia]

We have a bumper crop this month, one which is your favourite?

Tranquillity

Note: It is well worth looking all of the images at their full size this month, as the thumbnails really don't do some of them all that much justice.

You may notice that in the gallery some files appear larger then 150KB, but every photo included was less then 150KB when uploaded to the gallery.

To ensure that voting remains fair only active participating members of the forum may cast a vote. New members may not be able to vote right away in a challenge due to restrictions that have been put in place. If you cannot vote, but believe that you should be able to, feel free to send a pm to myself or another TPF staff member.

Please keep in mind that we are trying to keep this challenge anonymous (and unbiased) when it comes to both the submitting and the voting. Please avoid sharing your opinions about any specific photos until after the voting has completed and the winner is announced.

Please read the titles carefully in order to avoid confusion before voting. The photos may not be sorted in the correct order so to ensure you view them in proper order scroll to the bottom of the page and where it says "Display Options" ensure you select Sorted By: "Image Name" Sort Order: "Ascending" and then click on the "Show Images" button.

After viewing the photos please take the opportunity to vote for your favourite. Good luck to all. If there are any questions please let us know.

The mods/admins of ThePhotoForum.com may decide the winner from the top five submitted photos. The winner of the photo challenge will be contacted by Private Message (PM) on the day that the winner is announced. If the winner does not respond to the PM within 30 days they will not receive their prize and it will be put towards a future challenge. If we are unable to ship the intended prize to the winner do to his/her location we will provide another prize of equal value.

The polls will be open for the next fourteen days.

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[Chris of Arabia]

Just raising this up for you to look at and vote - given the number of entries this month, I'd guess we ought to be getting somewhere over 50 votes as a minimum, hopefully far more.

[Chris of Arabia]

Bump...

[Mendoza]

Some of these are astonishing.

[photographylover]

Wow. Even though I can't exactly figure out what landscape that is (sandy, flat, wet beach?) in number 10, that is an amazing picture.

[Derrel]

Wow--some very lovely photographs to choose from. What a great field of entries this month. I had a heck of a time picking my selection. A great job was done by many members!

[Chris of Arabia]

Time for some more votes I think.

[Pugs]

Nicely done, folks! Some of them were great shots, but I couldn't figure out how they met the theme. In the end I was torn between two, but went with the one that had a straight horizon line... If the other was level, I would have voted for it in a heartbeat!

[Chris of Arabia]

Whilst this isn't probably the time or place for a debate on this, I have some sympathy with Pugs. This is intended to be a competitiion demonstrating the very best of your photographic capabilities within a defined theme - the voting should take the same considerations into account

[Lisa B]

It is damn annoying when so many people enter and few vote!

[John Thawley]

It is damn annoying when so many people enter and few vote!

Perhaps a panel should narrow it down to 10 each month and let the forum member vote on those 10. Might also be nice if the images were displayed in advance of voting.... build more interest.

Just a thought...

[Flems]

I second John's idea. Looks like there's too many options for people to choose from.

[xmaxonx]

I agree, it should be narrowed down a bit. Cut mine out

[Chris of Arabia]

OK folks, just two days to go and there is still all to play for. Let's see if we can't get some more votes in before the poll closes. We still have less votes than we have entries, which I don't quite understand, but heh!

[Flems]

A sad fact! It's easier to vote than enter a picture itself, .

C'mon people!