Contest 25: Voting Page

Post by **CoronaCactus** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 4:27 pm

Hi,

Great turn-out for this contest! Thanks to everybody for sharing their pics. Some very cool photos, not only the contest photos, but the additional photos in the discussion thread are great too.

However, we now have to pick just one

Photos for Contest 25 can be viewed here

Voting will run for 1 week
Deadline is Monday April 28th, 2008

hablu · Post by **hablu** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 6:26 am

So: barrage between the two winners?
Harry

Post by **daiv** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 2:29 pm

Harry, I think voting will run until the end of the day so the results may change. (depending on how Daryl set the time limit on the poll).

Daiv

Post by **CoronaCactus** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:06 am

I beleive it will end at midnight tonight. I only set the amount of days for it to run.

Only 5 hours left to vote!

cactuspolecat · Post by **cactuspolecat** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:01 am

Looks like Daiv is the winner...

Congrats Daiv... I applaud your effort... there were some really great photo's this time around, but yours is an awesome photograph, I just had to give it my vote!

Well done everyone.

CP

Lewis_cacti · Post by **Lewis_cacti** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:14 am

whoops, missed out on voting

now that i have actually seen the entires i think Daivs pic was really awesome and the rightful winner.

hablu · Post by **hablu** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:48 am

Congratulations Daiv, a fine oicture.
Harry

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:27 pm

Yep, That was the best shot Daiv!

Post by **CoronaCactus** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:42 pm

Congrats Daiv!
$\:D/$

peterb · Post by **peterb** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:54 pm

This was one of the best contests yet; it seems the tops of our plants are where the action is. Daiv, great photo!

peterb

peter · Post by **peter** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:02 pm

Congrats Daiv!

Post by **daiv** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:15 pm

Wow! thanks all! No question one of my favorite plants! For those who weren't around when it was blooming, see this post for the full open flowers:

http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5188

This was a fun topic and one we'll have to re-visit for sure!

hob · Post by **hob** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:27 pm

yes well done Daiv great image

i hope you guys don't mind i did a bit of editing on some of the shots to practice my image processing. i think i did a bit too much to my entry

Buck i hope you don't mind but yours was a great image and i would have voted for it if it looked like this

peterb · Post by **peterb** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:33 pm

It's hard for me to say whether I prefer unedited, unaltered images or photoshopped ones. Sometimes I fool with contrast and brightness but the colors all start to look like various flavors of highly artificial soda! My usual verdict is the original image is sometimes more true to what my eye sees, and sometimes the edited image is more true.

peterb

hob · Post by **hob** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:37 pm

peterb wrote:It's hard for me to say whether I prefer unedited, unaltered images or photoshopped ones. Sometimes I fool with contrast and brightness but the colors all start to look like various flavors of highly artificial soda! My usual verdict is the original image is sometimes more true to what my eye sees, and sometimes the edited image is more true.

peterb

thats all i do, contrast and brightness and sometimes a minimal sharpening.

Contest 25: Voting Page

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Contest 25: Voting Page