Photo Challenge - Finale

[venta]

Well, I dunno about you, but I think it's probably about time I judged this photo comptetition. If nothing else, those of you with no interest in the thing will cease having to read posts about it.

I'm sitting here with a huge Excel spreadsheet[*], totting up the votes that were sent to me. And I think we can safely conclude that everyone has pretty disparate tastes in photographs. The pictures that knocked some people out left others completely cold.

However. Some people didn't cast votes for every category, and some people tried to confuse the sums by voting for two people in the same category. Nobody got no votes - so whoever you are, someone likes yer pics :)

In most cateories, there was no real clear favourite; three or four pictures were about honours even. The following[**], however, deserve prizes for romping home with a clear victory:

Dave Sheldon, for Autumn.

Mike Wallis, for Corner (beating off hot competition from Neil Hopcroft).

Stuart Jenkins, for Curve.

Simon White, for Motion (you'll have to scroll down a bit as Simon didn't put an anchor in :)

The overall winner, though, is Glyn Faulkner. He would have won Friend outright, but also managed to attract a significant number of votes in almost all categories.

Prizes, of dubious taste, value and quality, will be issued. Glyn I'll see soon, Stuart I can track down easily. Simon I'll probably run into at Intrusion sometime. Dave, can you suggest a handy mutual acquaintance to act as courier ? Mike, I suspect, will have to trust me with a postal address if he wants his loot :)

A number of people commented that the standard of the photos submitted was unexpectedly high - and I really enjoyed seeing people's pictures. A few entrants also commented that they liked having a goal to their picture-taking (or at least something to act as a boot up the backside...), so there may potentially be other photo challenges in the future as/if/when I think of them.

Cheers all.

[*] Yes, all right, this is clearly bollocks about the spreadsheet. I've actually got a bit of paper with pencil tally marks all over it.
[**] It dawns on me that subsequent discussion down below may get a bit confusing... can people let me know if they mind me listing their LJ names in conjunction with their real names up there, to help the unfamiliar out?


Thanks to everyone who entered, and to those who voted (by mail or comment).

Comments

[surje.livejournal.com]

ok sure, i guess i would do it in gallery on my website, with a separate folder for each category, so each person would have to do 9 separate uploads, but voting would be easier.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Well, I doubt another one is going to happen any time soon, but I might come bothering you in the future :)