August 2012 - voting

[odklizec]

August contest open for voting! Thank you all for very nice entries!

Unfortunately, this time, I had to remove 3 contest photos because of missing EXIF. I thought hard about it. I'm really unhappy about excluding some contest photos folks, but rules are rules. I always try to find the original photos with EXIF in your public galleries (Flickr etc...) and I'm often successful to find and replace the contest photos with correct ones. But this time, I failed to find the originals and so I decided to exclude the three photos without EXIF. Just to be fair with other folks who failed to enter in some previous contests. Please folks, be careful about uploading your edited photos! Don't use "save for web" (or similar) web-optimizing options in your photo editors. These options often kill the EXIF.

As always, the voting will be open for next 7 days. This month, you can, but you don't need to, select up to 5 photos!

In case of too low number of votes or split vote, I reserve the right to select the winner myself.

Please, don't vote for yourself! Be fair and vote for a competitor's work! Thank you!
BTW, the voter's name is always visible in the little combo box displaying the percentage. And once the vote is cast, it cannot be changed!

dunders - Guy Plays the Pipes - GXR M

Fairly - Jazz & Crime - GRD

5four - The Blues - GXR A12 50mm

HawkeyX - River of People - GRD4

game1980 - Portabello Road Street Musician - GRD3

Rog Tallbloke - Cropredy Minstrels - GXR A12 28mm

Khortal - Kora - GRD

Duane Pandorf - Belly Up Bar - GXR M

UMSP - Lift - GRD4

timothyckc - unnamed - GX200

Blow-in - Hands - GRD4

Cristian78 - The Sax - GRX M

esp - Sunday morning - GXR A12 50mm

Gab - One man band... - GRD3

Mainiac - Dover Beach rehearsal - GXR M

vic225 - Chinese and Western instruments - GRD4

giampiero - Slow Motion Genocide - GXR M

MarcusEyre1 - Music - light in our life - GX200

Athena - Groovin' - GXR P10

 

[wok64]

This competition is on an incredibly high level. Wonderful contributions, how shall I get along with just 5 votes? I need 10 at least, better 19 ...

Wolfgang

 

[Blow-in]

Looks like we have a runaway winner here.....congratulatiuons to Gab. The thing that made that image for me was the movement I could see - that guy was swinging with his own music.

Richard

 

[wok64]

Congratulations Gab! You won convincingly against stiff competition. Great image,

Wolfgang

 

[panonski]

congratulations, this pic was a little bit further in the way of sense, well deserve win.

 

[Wiener]

It is a visual, as well as a musical classic! You can almost hear the music, feel the passion...

 

[5four]

you deserve to win, it's the greatest photo congratulations.

 

[Marcus E.]

A fantastic and well deserved win Gab....congratulations!

 

[Orol]

Well done, Gab. A well deserved win.

Peter

 

[Gab]

All, there is not yet official announcement but in any case thank you all for your comments and votes. I'm really happy that you liked my picture and that it have been chosen among many other fantastic shots
Pavel, just waiting the next steps... I have already in mind the subject for the next contest ... and further I have to choose my prize (yessssss) :?:

 

[odklizec]

Congratulations Gab! Sorry for delayed reaction the PM is in your inbox.

 

[dunders]

A great capture: well done!

Paul

 

[Khortal]

'Much Congratulations' Gab ..... a Wonderful image full of the atmosphere of Music

Regards - Kort .

 

[Gab]

Thank you Paul and Kort, happy that you like...