 - Ken Smith  Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Countdown to June Contest Results Hi everyone. Hard to believe, but it’s the middle of the month and time to share your favorite contest image(s) from June. I’m also hoping for more participation from folks that have rarely, or never participated in this thread. I hope you’ll share your favorite photo(s) with us. Looks like BP is making their 2nd pass-thru on the June EPs, so hopefully we'll see a more orderly flow of SFs, Finalists, and Winners. Good luck!!
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Some helpful hints for attaching photos into a BP Forum Thread, if you're unfamiliar with the process: 1) Sign into BP. IF YOU HAVEN'T entered the Contest for today, you can use the "Photo ID" method to pull an existing image (from your Member Center) into your Reply here. This avoids a duplicate image upload to your Member Center. Note the Photo ID# of the image you wish to include here (visible in your Member Center) then return to this thread, click Respond, enter the text of your reply, and choose "1" from the images-to-attach drop-down (even though you won't actually be uploading a file.) Click Submit; at the next screen, populate the "Photo ID" field shown over at the right. Skip the other text fields on that screen, check the boxes at the bottom, and Submit. 2) IF YOU HAVE ALREADY entered the Contest for today, you can't use the Photo ID method *today*. Either wait until tomorrow to reply here first, or upload a copy of the image (from your PC) and attach to this thread. This produces a duplicate image in your Member Center; however, you don't have to make that duplicate visible in your Gallery. If you're uploading a duplicate, I suggest titling it "For Forum" so it stands out in your Member Center, for easier housecleaning later on. This can also help nudge BP viewers to go find the original image in your gallery, if they want to leave a comment. Likewise, if you want to add a comment to a photo seen here, first try to tell if it is a duplicate upload. As a courtesy, try to find the original image in the member's gallery and leave your comment there instead of on the duplicate... which may one day be deleted. From Usman Bajwa...If you want to post more than one thumbnail in your response…once you have put the ID # in before entering the contest for the day and you are on the next screen which says something like 'the image has been added', just don't close the browser window, use the back arrow button on the browser window which should take you to the same page where you had initially entered the ID#. All you have to do now is change the ID with the one which you want and press enter again. And voila you'll have two images as thumbnails. You can append as many images as you want by using the back button of the browser window. It’s counter-intuitive, but it works.
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
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- Peggy Pfister Contact Peggy Pfister Peggy Pfister's Gallery |
Beautiful image, Ken! (tag)
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- Carolyn M. Fletcher  Contact Carolyn M. Fletcher Carolyn M. Fletcher's Gallery |
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Hey Carolyn, welcome aboard. I actually like the single water drop (the one without the EP) more than the one that got one. Both are exquisite, though. And I'm hoping we'll see Staff Favs much earlier this month. Knock on wood. :-)
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- Peggy Pfister Contact Peggy Pfister Peggy Pfister's Gallery |
My fav for June ... Details & Macro
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- Peggy Pfister Contact Peggy Pfister Peggy Pfister's Gallery |
Details & Macro
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Hey Peggy...wow...a really cool shot. I like the zones of colors..very creative. Frame it!! :-)
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- Peggy Pfister Contact Peggy Pfister Peggy Pfister's Gallery |
Thanks, Ken! Much appreciated!
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Hi Susan, thanks for joining the thread. What a cute little guy...love his expression and the black/white works well. Good luck in the SF round!
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Susan Williams |
Thank you, Ken. I appreciate your comment. Best of luck to everyone!
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- Beatriz Rocha Contact Beatriz Rocha Beatriz Rocha's Gallery |
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Hi Beatriz, thanks so much for joining our group.,..what a soft focus...and full-frame photo. Very exquisite. Good luck in the next round!
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- Nikki McDonald Contact Nikki McDonald Nikki McDonald's Gallery |
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- Nikki McDonald Contact Nikki McDonald Nikki McDonald's Gallery |
Signs of the Times - no EP Farm Truck - EP on 2nd round
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Hey Nikki, welcome aboard! I'm surprised no EP for Sign of the Times. It's a super shot, as is the Farm Truck photo. You are gifted in that you excel in all sorts of photography environments. Good luck to you in the next round!
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- Beatriz Rocha Contact Beatriz Rocha Beatriz Rocha's Gallery |
Thanks for your nice words Ken! Best to all.
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- Usman M. Bajwa Contact Usman M. Bajwa Usman M. Bajwa's Gallery |
Just like the past few months, I am posting one Fave that got an EP and the other that didn't. Good luck to you all in the contest. UB.
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Hey Usman, thanks for joining the fun. Your two photos show the range of your photographic talents. Both very different, and both are super. Both should have gotten an EP. Good luck in the next round!
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- Martha R. Mazon Contact Martha R. Mazon Martha R. Mazon's Gallery |
Here's my fave for June.
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Hey Martha, welcome aboard. That's a cool photo...a very nice abstract with good details. I like the colors/comp. Hopefully we'll see a SF on it shortly! :-)
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Pat Charters |
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Hey Pat, thanks for joining our countdown thread. Hopefully you can upload your photo. If not, just send the URL and we can take a look. It's nice to have new folks join (at least I think you're new to this thread).
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- Jill Odice Contact Jill Odice Jill Odice's Gallery |
the 2nd one is Midnight St. Louis Cemetery #1 New Orleans La. DD category . I shot it on film and converted it using NIK Color Efex, added a moon and made it spooky :-)
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- Errick L. Cameron Contact Errick L. Cameron Errick L. Cameron's Gallery |
"Connections" was taken on the Outer Banks one evening. I like the graphics and the story that it tells.
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- Errick L. Cameron Contact Errick L. Cameron Errick L. Cameron's Gallery |
"Connections" was taken on the Outer Banks one evening. I like the graphics and the story that it tells.
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- Errick L. Cameron Contact Errick L. Cameron Errick L. Cameron's Gallery |
"Connections" was taken on the Outer Banks one evening. I like the graphics and the story that it tells. "Illusions" is my second pick. Another graphic black and white taken in downtown St Louis. Good luck to all in the contest! Errick
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Hey Erick, welcome aboard! A very cool concept with the "Connections." It took a 2nd look to see the couple in the photo, and then it all clicked. Very nice...same for you "Illusions." I've also liked the photos where the leading lines of different buildings converge into an interesting abstract. Good luck in the next round!
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Hey Jill, thanks for jumping on board! :-) I'm sorry to hear about your cat...she led a great life I'm sure and I know your photo has great meaning. Gotta love the eye in it! And nice DD work with the New Orleans photo. Film? How long ago?
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dmd-photo-art.com - Dominick M. Dimacale Contact Dominick M. Dimacale Dominick M. Dimacale's Gallery |
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dmd-photo-art.com - Dominick M. Dimacale Contact Dominick M. Dimacale Dominick M. Dimacale's Gallery |
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dmd-photo-art.com - Dominick M. Dimacale Contact Dominick M. Dimacale Dominick M. Dimacale's Gallery |
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dmd-photo-art.com - Dominick M. Dimacale Contact Dominick M. Dimacale Dominick M. Dimacale's Gallery |
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dmd-photo-art.com - Dominick M. Dimacale Contact Dominick M. Dimacale Dominick M. Dimacale's Gallery |
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Dominick, you have some great B/Ws; I especially like the first one. For the 2nd, was that KC visit when I first met you, with Candice and several others? Regardless of when you were in KC...good luck in the next round! :-)
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- Jane E. Miller Contact Jane E. Miller Jane E. Miller's Gallery |
Just curious has anyone else received any EPs for the month of June? Do you think they are done? Good Luck to everyone!! Jane
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Susan M. Smith |
I haven't been participating much at all, just two entries in May and two in June. Since one of the June entries got an EP I'll post it here. Good luck to everyone!
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- Jane E. Miller Contact Jane E. Miller Jane E. Miller's Gallery |
Susan, WOW! Love the image. The lighting is amazing! Good Job! Jane
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Susan, welcome to our fun group! :-). Very nice portrait and Vintage is perfect! Time to participate more!! :-) Jane, based on June EP thread, my gut feeling is they are finished with June. Hopefully SFs in next few days.
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Hi Pat, welcome to our group! Lucky you...Sydney. I'm assuming Australia. Super silhouette. Beautiful colors. Good luck in the SF round!
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- Dayna Cain Contact Dayna Cain Dayna Cain's Gallery |
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- Beth W. DeBor Contact Beth W. DeBor Beth W. DeBor's Gallery |
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Dayna, a very beautiful arrangement of colors, from a water world unlike ours. Welcome to our little group! :-)
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Beth, welcome to you too. It's great to see a larger number of folks participating. Your flower is beautiful. Very rich in the color. Best of luck in SF round!
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- Nikki McDonald Contact Nikki McDonald Nikki McDonald's Gallery |
Beginning to get antsy . . . maybe I'll go visit and comment on everyone's faves :)
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Jayne, just cut/paste the web link/URL and we can call it up.
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chrisbudny.com - Chris Budny Contact Chris Budny Chris Budny's Gallery |
Best of luck to everyone for June! I don't really have a horse in the race this time, with only 3 entries in June, which I'd forgotten I'd made(!) -- and checking just now, I see only one of those made the EP cut. Surely some results will be released shortly!
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Susan M. Smith |
Jayne, I go to My Photos and write down the photo ID of the one I want to add to the post (this only works if you haven't entered the contest for the day). Then at the bottom of your comment, you select 1 photo to attach. When that screen comes up, look all the way to your right and you will see a box where you can enter that photo ID#. All you do is type that # in and then submit! :)
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- Carol Quina Contact Carol Quina Carol Quina's Gallery |
Staff Favorites are out.
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- Peggy Pfister Contact Peggy Pfister Peggy Pfister's Gallery |
One SF for me, and it is my fav. :) Congrats to all, and best of luck in the next round!
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- Carolyn M. Fletcher Contact Carolyn M. Fletcher Carolyn M. Fletcher's Gallery |
6 SFs.. Good luck, all.
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- Jane E. Miller Contact Jane E. Miller Jane E. Miller's Gallery |
Congrats Everyone! Three for me - yahoo that's a record for me. Good Luck!!!! :-)
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- Joannie Bertucci Contact Joannie Bertucci Joannie Bertucci's Gallery |
One SF for me as well! :-)
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Congrats to all of you that got SFs! The selection rate was 9.9%, which was higher than last month. For the folks that posted photos on this forum, I noted Susan, Peggy, Dominick, Nikki, and Errick's submission got SF. Good luck to everyone in the finalist round!
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Susan Williams |
Two SFs, both a nice surprise. My favorite didn't advance, but remains my favorite. Best of luck to all in the next round!
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dmd-photo-art.com - Dominick M. Dimacale Contact Dominick M. Dimacale Dominick M. Dimacale's Gallery |
Got 9 Staff Favorites and one of my Favorite made it!
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- Usman M. Bajwa Contact Usman M. Bajwa Usman M. Bajwa's Gallery |
CONGRATZ to all who got one or more SFs. Fingers crossed for Finalist and Winners round!!! UB.
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Susan M. Smith |
Congrats to all who received Staff Favorites! I'm happy that my one of two entries got one :) Best of luck to all in the next round!
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Debra K. Johnson |
Monthly Theme
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Hi Debra, welcome back! Very nice effects on your portrait. Hold onto this photo for our July countdown; I hope we see it again!
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Pat Charters |
Hi I'm new to this thread, could someone please tell me where I find the June Staff Favourites?
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Hi Pat, BP doesn't post the Staff Favs on the site, unlike what they do for finalists and winners. They just show up similar to EPs, along with the e-mail notification.
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Susan M. Smith |
Dang, now I know I spend too much time on facebook as I am going through comments and pics here wanting to click on "like." lol
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chrisbudny.com - Chris Budny Contact Chris Budny Chris Budny's Gallery |
Ken -- I think they do -- but I don't know if June is "batched" with a link yet. Here's the main SF link: http://www.betterphoto.com/contest/staffFavorites.php
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- Mary Beth Aiello Contact Mary Beth Aiello Mary Beth Aiello's Gallery |
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- Mary Beth Aiello Contact Mary Beth Aiello Mary Beth Aiello's Gallery |
Hey, folks, I think I jumped the gun. You now know my favorite for July. Just saying..............
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- Peggy Pfister Contact Peggy Pfister Peggy Pfister's Gallery |
That's a terrific photo, Mary Beth!
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- Jane E. Miller Contact Jane E. Miller Jane E. Miller's Gallery |
Anyone heard anything about the Finalist Round. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!! Jane
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- Peggy Pfister Contact Peggy Pfister Peggy Pfister's Gallery |
Hoping for Finalists any time now! :)
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Chris, thanks for sending the link. I had forgotten about it. Would be nice if BP would have a visible "Staff Favs" button on the contest page. Mary Beth...super photo..I know you're real proud of it but you'll have to wait until 15 August, when I start next month's countdown thread. :-) Jane, I think we'll see finalists later this afternoon or evening. Good luck, everyone!
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- Nikki McDonald Contact Nikki McDonald Nikki McDonald's Gallery |
Ken, I think Chris was trying to say there IS a visible "Staff Favs" button on the contest page - it's just not "populated" until later which means that at this time, we can only view all the SF's from May. We're wishing they would put the images in there when they send the emails, the way they do with Finalists and Winners. Well, sometimes there's a lag, but not that long. To find it, go to Contest > Contest in the main blue bar across the top of the page and drop the menu down.
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- Errick L. Cameron Contact Errick L. Cameron Errick L. Cameron's Gallery |
You are all invited... You are all invited to participate in a mass upload tomorrow at non BP time. Enter a photo into the monthly theme and title your photo "Filters and Plu-ins". Everyone enter as close as possible to exactly 12:00, noon, BP time. That would be 2:00 PM Central, 3:00 PM Eastern. This is to have some fun and also to thank BetterPhoto for having the monthly online contest which we all very much enjoy. If you choose to give a little thanks in the discussion tag please do so. Hope to see you there. And... invite your other BP friends to join in the fun! If we are successful will may repeat this activity on August 31st.
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Susan M. Smith |
Finalists are out! Congrats to all who received Finalists! I was tickled silly just to get a SF on my lone little EP. Now I'm kinda thrilled!
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Nikki..we're saying the same things. I was hoping we'd see current SFs instantly on the visible link, versus waiting til later. Errick, I've entered three photos in the theme and all have struck out. So, I"m jinxed in the filters theme so will enter a boring N/L shot. :-) But sounds like a great idea! Tomorrow is the end of the month, so if you're in the habit of copying your contest entries, please do so tomorrow before the clock resets to August. Congrats to all that got finalist(s). Good luck in the next round!
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- Nikki McDonald Contact Nikki McDonald Nikki McDonald's Gallery |
Okay, sorry, Ken :) I was thinking maybe you thought Chris had posted some unpublished link he'd found somewhere LOL And I'm off to find an entry for the MT upload tomorrow. I think Errick means .. . and Plug-ins :)
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- Peggy Pfister Contact Peggy Pfister Peggy Pfister's Gallery |
Have been browsing all the finalist eye candy ... soooooo inspiring! Congrats to all and best of luck in the next round!
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- Nikki McDonald Contact Nikki McDonald Nikki McDonald's Gallery |
Oh, and Ken, I just went and created something for tomorrow's Filters and Plug-Ins upload. Just did a serious distort on something I had in my gallery - that way I can use it tomorrow and also as it originally was :) I'll save what I had planned for tomorrow for another day.
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Nikki, I've struck out on filters and plug-ins. I'll go back to my comfy N/L for the last day. :-)
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- Usman M. Bajwa Contact Usman M. Bajwa Usman M. Bajwa's Gallery |
CONGRATZ to all the Winners. And great pickings Nikki and Peggy for this thread. UB.
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
To piggy back on Usman's comment...I noticed gold medals for the following folks on this thread: Peggy, Susan Williams, Nikki, Usman, and Dominick. I haven't had a chance to look through the finalists yet but I know Carolyn and Susan Smith got some. My apologies if I missed any golds/silvers for other folks on this thread. So...until next month! :-)
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- Carolyn M. Fletcher Contact Carolyn M. Fletcher Carolyn M. Fletcher's Gallery |
No winners for me this time. Congrats to those who got some gold.
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- Joannie Bertucci Contact Joannie Bertucci Joannie Bertucci's Gallery |
I received a Second Place badge in the Flowers category! :-)
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Ken neglected to mention that he received a Gold for The Tree. Congratulations to all who got EPs, SFs, Finalists and Golds!
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- Peggy Pfister Contact Peggy Pfister Peggy Pfister's Gallery |
Big congrats to all EPs, SFs, Finalists and Winners! Happy shooting!
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- Errick L. Cameron Contact Errick L. Cameron Errick L. Cameron's Gallery |
All In!!!! Come join in the fun! March Countdown Thread is here! https://www.betterphoto.fun/forms/QnAdetail.php?threadID=43225
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