Photo Competition Winners

Thank you to the 150 people who voted on the photo competition, here and on the blog. You are great people, and I appreciated you taking the time to vote.

The winners are in, in all ways. It is a funny occurence that the two winning photos were taken 3 days apart in fresh springy Sokółka in Eastern Poland.

The three winners of the grand prizes (being a calendar made of photos from the competition) are......... Aly S, Ewa W and Kerry C. We also decided to draw a special bonus prize and that went to Aleksandra P (who recieves a print of her choice from the competition).
All winners were selected by the random number generator at random.org
Top 5 in order are:
Colour -

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

 Black and White -

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

2014 The Best Black and White Photos

The concept is easy. Just write in the comments at the bottom which of the photos you like (by number or name). Also, feel free to comment about what you think about them and feel free to vote for as many as you like. For the past four years I have run this competition to see what was the best photo I took during the last 12 months(ish). Partly because I am bad at choosing which are my best and partly because it is nice to know what other people like. It lets me remove my emotions, experience and established connotations from the photos themselves.

It was really hard to narrow it down to the 18 in fact there was meant to be well over 30 but sometimes you have to make hard decisions!! If you have friends you want to share this with, just give them the link. There is a colour photo section as well, and don't forget a random voter will be selected for a prize as well. :) 

I will close votes off on the 21th of November.

#1. Fenced. Penola, South Australia.

#2. Cafe Life, East End Adelaide, South Australia.

#3. Look into my eyes. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.

#4. Sweet home Gumeracha. Gumeracha, South Australia.

#5. A penny for your thoughts sir. Gumeracha, South Australia.

#6. Koala creases. Adelaide, South Australia.

#7. A real Adelaide Crow? Adelaide Museum, South Australia.

#8. Lone walker. Sokółka, Podlasia, Poland.

#9. Sneaky Pałac. Warsaw, Poland.

#10. Stairway to Power. Prime Ministers Office. Warsaw, Poland.

#11. Olden bits. Warsaw, Poland.

#12. Billowing bits, Warsaw, Poland.

#13. Harvest hands. Sokółka, Podlasia, Poland.

#14.Filtered rays. Sokółka, Podlasia, Poland.

#15. Night Egg, Łazienki, Warsaw, Poland.

#16. Warsaw Marathon and the cake. Warsaw, Poland.

#17. Sunlife. Warsaw, Poland

#18. Autumn daze. Łazienki, Warsaw, Poland.

Best Colour photos of the year, 2013.

Every year I like together what I think are my best Colour (and Black and White in another post here) photographs. People then vote for their favourites and then a top ten list is compiled.

The task is pretty simple, just flick through the photos below and add a comment at the bottom to give your vote for which is your favourite or favourites (as you can, of course, like more than one) and then I tally them up and the winners announced in a glittering red carpet ceremony.  Or due to the fact I own no carpet, I will probably just put them on here, and am thinking I might make a calendar of the best photographs should I have time.....

For the last 4 years I had selected randomly a voter for a special prize, so I shall most likely do it again this year. So, have a look, let me know and maybe you could win too. So here they are and in no particular order.......

1. Two birds with one photograph. Warsaw, Poland.

2. Night lines. Warsaw, Poland

3. Bridging it. Connemara, Ireland

4. Erice the sky. Erice, Sicily.

5. We're on the road to nowhere. Connemara, Ireland

6. Cliff the conquerer. Erice, Sicily.

7. Green wash. Favignana, Sicily.

8. Couple o'local lads. Connemara, Ireland.

9. Chained Daisy. Inishmore, Ireland.

10. Lonley light. Burren, Ireland.

11. Battered and bluesed. Trapani, Sicily.

12. Local street fighter. Trapani, Sicily.

13. Net not gross. Trapani, Sicily.

14. A bugs life. Sokółka, Poland.

15. Mrs Joy Meadow. Sokółka, Poland.

16. Elderjellies. Warsaw, Poland.

17. Nice to Wheat you. Sokółka, Poland.

18. Old Master art. Warsaw, Poland.

19. Roasties with the mosties. Warsaw, Poland.

20. The museum of soft and hard. Wola, Warsaw, Poland.

21. Softening down. Barbarino, Tuscany, Italy.

22. Light hit. Warsaw, Poland.

23. Soft focus point. Warsaw, Poland.

24. Flutterby. Kabaty, Warsaw, Poland.

25. Spinning around. Politechnika, Warsaw, Poland.

26. Reflections of a Podlasian Vermeer. Sokółka, Poland.

27. Rondo Żaba. Sokółka, Poland.

28. The honeymaker. Kabaty, Warsaw, Poland.

29. Leaf among many. Ujazdów, Warsaw, Poland.

30. Bugs eye viewer. Sokółka, Poland.

 I hope you enjoyed seeing them as much as I enjoy showing them.