****** January Photo Contest: Winner, 2nd and 3rd place announcement ******

[CurtEastPoint]

Congratulations to handmade34, whose lovely photo invoking peace was the top vote-getter!

In Wildness is the Preservation of the World


The next two top votes went to:

Guileless, by Alfredo


and

Misty Solitude, by Mz Pip


Many, many thanks to the members who entered their photos:

Blue_In_AK
CaliforniaPeggy
Curmudgeoness
Dyedinthewoolliberal
Earth First
Elleng
F4lconF16
JDB
Johnny Noshoes
Laura PourMeADrink
Mira
mnhtnbb
teamster633
The Velveteen Ocelot


It was my pleasure to host (for the first time!) this photo contest. I appreciate the help I got from the Photography group gurus and from other readers who pointed out a link glitch.

Thank you, and especially thank you to those DU members listed here for sharing their beautiful photos with us.

Handmade34, I hereby pass the baton to you to host the next contest!

[femmocrat]

1. K & R

Congratulations to the winners!

[bluedigger]

2. Congratulations to all!

A very nice group of photos this month!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Congratulations to the winners!

And congratulations to you, my dear CurtEastPoint, for a job very well done!

Everyone who hosts these contests, and I do mean everyone, makes mistakes! It's just the way things go.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. And thanks to you for your help and to Mira and groundloop for their help, too!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. I was really glad to help!

You should have seen the mistake I made.........it was a doozy!

[shenmue]

6. Doggie!

[brer cat]

7. Congrats to the winners!

We have so many talented DUers, it is always hard to choose just one.

[LostOne4Ever]

8. Awesome job to all of you. Those were some amazing photographs (nt)

[zeemike]

9. That was my first choice.

But really it could have been any one of the three...even the ones that did not make the top 3 were good...lots of talent here.

Congrats to all, and keep them coming.

[AtomicKitten]

10. Thank you for all the entries.

Love the winner in particular. The light shining through the trees is breathtaking.

[KMOD]

11. Congratulations to the winners,

and to everyone who participated in this contest.

They were all beautiful!!!