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Photo Gallery => Competition => Topic started by: BarriedaleNick on June 22, 2014, 18:41:01

Title: Winner of the May competition.
Post by: BarriedaleNick on June 22, 2014, 18:41:01: :icon_cheers: The well deserved winner this time around is Peanuts with a great landscape shot. :icon_cheers:
Jayb is a close runner up with Picture number 2 - a lovely bee pic!

Scores and votes are below and a massive thank you to all who sent in pics and for those who took time to vote.

Picture 1 - Yorkshire lass - 5 votes (15.2%)
(http://i.imgur.com/yypTXEx.jpg)

Picture 2 - Jayb 9 Votes (27.3%)
(http://i.imgur.com/pnVomQn.jpg)

Picture 3 - Poppy Mole 1 Vote (3%)
(http://i.imgur.com/8m5czuo.jpg)

Picture 4 - john_miller 0 Votes (0%)
(http://i.imgur.com/Rekfb2R.jpg)

Picture 5 - Peanuts 11 Votes (33.3%)
(http://i.imgur.com/KZ0xNdq.jpg)

Picture 6 - gavinjconway 3 Votes (9.1%)
(http://i.imgur.com/4vpFt4o.jpg)

Picture 7 - spireite 1 Vote (3%)
(http://i.imgur.com/WKwewAt.jpg)

Picture 8 - Barriedalenick 3 Votes (9.1%)
(http://i.imgur.com/qQIjT7x.jpg)
Title: Re: Winner of the May competition.
Post by: Jayb on June 23, 2014, 07:18:11: Well done Peanuts, a very beautiful shot :happy7: Well done you :icon_cheers:
Title: Re: Winner of the May competition.
Post by: Jayb on June 23, 2014, 07:19:30: Ps, I'd still love to know what the lovely flower in picture 4 is?
Title: Re: Winner of the May competition.
Post by: pumkinlover on June 23, 2014, 07:37:13: Congratulations to peanuts :icon_cheers: and everyone who entered :wave:
Title: Re: Winner of the May competition.
Post by: BarriedaleNick on June 23, 2014, 08:00:07: Quote from: Jayb on June 23, 2014, 07:19:30
Ps, I'd still love to know what the lovely flower in picture 4 is?

It's Impatiens flanaganae - http://www.strangewonderfulthings.com/188.htm

Note that I didn't know that but john_miller did mention it in his post to me!!
Title: Re: Winner of the May competition.
Post by: galina on June 23, 2014, 08:11:07: sorry double posted by accident. Galina
Title: Re: Winner of the May competition.
Post by: galina on June 23, 2014, 08:13:23: Quote from: BarriedaleNick on June 23, 2014, 08:00:07
Quote from: Jayb on June 23, 2014, 07:19:30
Ps, I'd still love to know what the lovely flower in picture 4 is?

It's Impatiens flanaganae - http://www.strangewonderfulthings.com/188.htm

Note that I didn't know that but john_miller did mention it in his post to me!!

That was my second favourite. Such an unusual, pretty flower shape.

Congratulations Peanuts. Super picture - it really encompasses Spring! Lovely. :wave:

All photos were of such high quality. Really good pictures.
Title: Re: Winner of the May competition.
Post by: peanuts on June 24, 2014, 10:33:06: Thank you everyone! I voted for no 8 as I just love close-ups of flowers, showing nature in an extraordinary way.
I never used to take photos, leaving it to my husband, with his SLR. Then when we got a small digital camera to carry round on our mountain walks, I started taking photos. I know nothing about photography, just loving seeing something that catches my eye, more often a close-up.

We are so lucky living on the edge of the Pyrenees full of wonderful spring, and then summer flowers, I took this photo in May, when daffodils were over lower down, but were still in flower on the slopes of pic du Midi d'Ossau, at a height of 2000m . By mistake I had the camera on a weird setting that takes a 2 sec video before every still photo, so I also have a wonderful v short video of these daffodils nodding in the breeze - it is so beautiful!
Title: Re: Winner of the May competition.
Post by: Spireite on June 25, 2014, 08:13:23: I loved the bumble bee pic, try as I might I can never get such clarity when I try to photograph them...they always seem to move. Well done.