June Photo Competition Winners

[rhubarb]

Well its results time,and boy have you made it difficult for me. First of all thanks for all of the fantastic entries and all of the chit chat,I thought for a while with the thread not being stickied that that would have killed it but far from it. Its also nice to see shots from people who haven't entered before.

I've taken a leaf out of nick_bbb's book and copied all of the shots to my laptop and stuck them in picassa and slowly eliminated shots until I was left with 14 !!! So I came to the bar (overlooking the north pacific in Tofino) grabbed a bottle of Kettle Valley 2007 Pinot Gris (highly recommended) to wittle it down some more.

So the results, but first some mentions, baz7125 - the shot of the war cemetary, this is a poignant reminder of todays man made landscape and the symmetry in the photo is great, john185k - this is great - conjures up loads of atmosphere and stigmundfread - great image that draws you into the scene, all great shots and made to the final 6.

But the winners are:

Third place: CVP and your shot of the Brooklyn Bridge, loved the colour and symmetry of this

Second place: AndyKH skyscaper shot, again loved the colour, reflections and the angle of this - I could see this on the walls of a trendy downtown bar

And in first place......

AndWhy's shot of a terrace of houses, loved the slow exposure and the wide angle, the colour, and the fact its almost hopperesque.



So AndWhy, very well done and over to you now

[thinfourth2]

oh bugger its july already

[baz7175]

Congrats AndWhy, and cheers for the mention rhubarb

Edited by baz7175 on Tuesday 1st July 07:20

[AndyKH]

I'm chuffed to bits with that! It's the first time i've had the courage to enter any of my pictures in anything and to come second has just made my day! Thanks rhubarb!!!!!

[MartinP]

Well done AndWhy - I love the sky in that shot.

[stigmundfreud]

well done Andwhy, now wheres the july comp?!

[Scho]

well done for winning this month people!

possibly best comp topics i've seen on ph so far

clever use of out of focus elements in framing:

andybuk99 said:

i also thought this image had good comedy value and also something interesting on a deeper level:

Kiltie said:

that monkeys expression is GOLD

Edited by Scho on Tuesday 1st July 10:26

[AndWhy]

Wow. I'm stunned but delighted, particularly because I thought the entries were pretty diverse and of a very high standard this month.

Thanks for the vote Rhubarb and for the other comments here. Well done everyone.

Now, to think of a topic for July...

[CVP]

Well done Andwhy. Chuffed with third. I thought there were another couple that were great, it was a really intersting topic and to see how we all looked at it in different ways.

Cheers

Chris

[Yellabelly]

Excellent choice Rhubarb, well done to the first three and especially to Andwhy.

So, on to July!

YB

[john185k]

Great comp guys, well done to the winner and runners up!