Jan '07 Challenge Photos - "Free-For-All" - Sponsored by joby.com

[machangezi]

My guess is that most of the entries came from newly registered members. They couldn't vote cos of the 25 posts restriction.

 

[TwistMyArm]

Thanks for your patience people and thanks to all who participated again this month. Those of you eager to learn who submitted 07janphoto02 it was machangezi.
Congrats machangezi and nice job!

 

[machangezi]

Thanks very much Twist. Special thanks to all those who participated and voted in the poll.

Sincerely,

macha

 

[Parago]

My guess is that most of the entries came from newly registered members. They couldn't vote cos of the 25 posts restriction.

That would make sense. Why is that, tho?

Anyways, congratulations. I didn't vote for yours simply because I had a feeling it would win anyways.

 

[RacePhoto]

Thanks very much Twist. Special thanks to all those who participated and voted in the poll.

Sincerely,

macha

I'm calling for a recount. The photos had higher numbers one day and lower the next. And in case anyone is taking the above seriously, I'm kidding. I don't think anything would have changed the winning photo in the end.

Now I wonder, and I haven't looked, can I write to one of the people who didn't win and explain why I voted for their photo, because I liked it so much?

Somewhere up above I wrote something like this. Congratulations to everyone for taking the time to enter (and vote), there was a fine selection and variety of photos. I enjoyed seeing all the different things that people picked for their Free For All.

 

[machangezi]

Thanks Parago/RP. It's a coincidence that I won this competition on my birthday, Feb the 10th!

 

[LaFoto]

RacePhoto - now that the voting is over you may say whose photo you voted for and why.

And I must say that only 40 votes is pretty lame and I feel a lot more long-standing forum members COULD go and vote, even those who don't hand in submissions. I mean we are so many here who come very, very regularly and I am sure I am communicating with more than only 40 people on a very regular basis. How come they don't spend that little amount of time that is necessary to look at the submissions and vote for one?

 

[LaFoto]

But something IS funny here and may have to do with the board crash: I liked the idea of "Free Beer for ALL!" and voted for Photo 30, which I guess, just guess, was submitted by Alex_B (was it, Alex?), for I just LIKE the idea of FREE BEER ... and when I cast my vote, it later said that 2 persons had voted for that photo. Now it is only one, and the line is no longer in italics for me, so it now looks like I never voted.

Could be I voted shortly before the crash ... and by the crash and our loss of everything between Monday and Wednesday, my vote as well as several others simply got lost. Maybe in the end a lot more have actually voted. For 40 DOES sound a very, very, very low number ... and with Photo 30 now only having 1 vote, when it was 2 right after I had voted ... also the votes must have gone lost.

But congratulations Macha to your submission, yours was a "near miss" for me, I just preferred the thought of "Free Beer for All!" . You won - and on your birthday! - all the same. Congratulations again, also for your birthday!!!!

 

[Parago]

For me it was a very close call between Number 40 and Number 46, I ended up voting for Number 46 simply because it really captured my attention and I found myself literally studying it, looking at it more than once, even after I had already voted. And that for me is, what a good photograph should do. Fascinate.

As mentioned before, machangezi's photo was definitely one of my favorites, but for soem reason I just knew it would win so I decided to give somebody else my vote. :mrgreen:

 

[Alex_B]

I liked the idea of "Free Beer for ALL!" and voted for Photo 30, which I guess, just guess, was submitted by Alex_B (was it, Alex?), for I just LIKE the idea of FREE BEER

No, it wasn't me! In my TPF-career I only submitted one image to a contest so far, and that is a while ago

Also, I am not into the lager type of beer .. I am an Ale and Stout person. Lager is for whimps

 

[RacePhoto]

RacePhoto - now that the voting is over you may say whose photo you voted for and why.

And I must say that only 40 votes is pretty lame and I feel a lot more long-standing forum members COULD go and vote, even those who don't hand in submissions. I mean we are so many here who come very, very regularly and I am sure I am communicating with more than only 40 people on a very regular basis. How come they don't spend that little amount of time that is necessary to look at the submissions and vote for one?

I think there were more than 40 votes but the crash wiped out some. I'm not complaining. The vote percentages were about the same, before and after, so it didn't change the outcome.

The winner stood out, but I didn't vote for it. Not because it wasn't the best or just because I knew it would win or anything, I just found that two other pictures appealed to me personally. Best is totally subjective and I guess I'm from Pluto.

I voted for number 7 because I liked the scene, and composition. (train guy? Night scene with lights? Perspective of the shot over the locomotive cab? I don't know what did it.) Ya, I'm the one... But I sat and looked and looked at 45 and 7 over and over, before I finally had to pick one of them.

The white barn in the snow with the subtle dashes of colors. I wasn't one that jumped off the screen at first, but the more I looked at it, I said to myself, that's something that could be hanging on a wall in just about any room of a home.

 

[Parago]

White barn in the snow? Number 45? And I thought that was an Infrared Shot. :blushing:

 

[Chase]

The winner actually ended up with 11 total votes. Well deserved, congrats!

 

[Steel26]

There were some really amazing shots entered in this one so i guess i wont complain with 2nd. Personally 45 was my favorite.

 

[machangezi]

It would be very difficult for me to choose, after seeing some great entries there, If I had the right to vote.