Winner of the May competition.

[BarriedaleNick]

  The well deserved winner this time around is Peanuts with a great landscape shot.
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%)



Picture 2 - Jayb 9 Votes (27.3%)



Picture 3 - Poppy Mole 1 Vote (3%)



Picture 4 - john_miller 0 Votes (0%)



Picture 5 - Peanuts 11 Votes (33.3%)



Picture 6 - gavinjconway 3 Votes (9.1%)



Picture 7 - spireite 1 Vote (3%)



Picture 8 - Barriedalenick 3 Votes (9.1%)

[BarriedaleNick]

[Jayb]

Well done Peanuts, a very beautiful shot  Well done you 

[Jayb]

Ps, I'd still love to know what the lovely flower in picture 4 is?

[pumkinlover]

Congratulations to peanuts    and everyone who entered 

[BarriedaleNick]

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!!

[galina]

sorry double posted by accident.  Galina

[galina]

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.   

All photos were of such high quality.   Really good pictures.

[peanuts]

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!

[Spireite]

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.