Photo Contest Winners!

[layton]

Humor 1st place -Mtngrrrrl

 

Bouldering 1st place -Mtngrrrrl again!

 

Climbing 1st Place -Goatboy

 

Scenic 1st place - MVS

 

 

Humor 2nd -Dru

 

Humor 3rd - Cluck

 

Bouldering 2nd -Dru

 

Bouldering 3rd -MisterE

 

Sorry Distel32!!

 

Climbing 2nd- Shredmaximus

 

Climbing 3rd- Mattp

 

Scenic 2nd place - Cluck again

 

Scenic 3rd place -MisterE again!

 

Big Winners were MisterE & Cluck

Biggest Winner: Mtngrrrrl with 2 1st places

 

Now please feel free to complain and whine about why your crappy photo didn't win, why the winning photos sucked, how the contest was rigged, how the general population wouldn't know what a good photo would be if it bit them in the ass, etc....

 

Thanks for playing, it was kinda sorta fun.

To be honest, I don't like the idea of the photo contest anymore. I like having lots of people post the photos in the orginal post. That was fun. I'm soo sick of looking at these photos.

[Alex]

Climbing 1st place is inspirational! I also like Bouldering 2nd and Scenic 3rd pics. All of these are great pics!

[layton]

I like climbing 1st place, but I must be missing something to make it so popular.

[PONCHO&LEFTY]

***I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE DO THIS**** but, Mr E check out this small Photoshop alter to your excellent photo (attached). I am sorry if this comes over as arrogant, because your photo is already really cool, but this might represent the scene as you saw it (since cameras have trouble picking up such levels of contrast).

[goatboy]

There is absolutely no award that is as meaningful, to me, as that which is given by your peers.

 

Believe it or not, it means a great deal to me to have so many people see my photos at all, let alone vote for it. It was especially meaningful when the other photographers are as talented and the other photos as great as they were.

 

Thanks a lot for organizing the competition, Michael, and thanks to everyone who posted their pictures and voted and made it fun.

 

- goatboy

[archenemy]

Congrats to the winners, and thanks for letting the rest of us peer into your worlds.

[rbw1966]

Hey goatboy--where was that pic taken?

[Trundle]

Any way to get some captions to tell us the locations of the pics??

[Stefan]

Hey Michael Layton thanks for your time putting this together. I enjoyed it. It adds to the quality of the site.

[sk]

this was just fun all the way arround. thanks to Mikey and the photogrphers and everyone who was involved.

[texplorer]

I generally thought most of the pics sucked. No, I didn't post any other options. I think that there have to be more great pics from the climbers of this site.

[EWolfe]

***I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE DO THIS**** but, Mr E check out this small Photoshop alter to your excellent photo (attached). I am sorry if this comes over as arrogant, because your photo is already really cool, but this might represent the scene as you saw it (since cameras have trouble picking up such levels of contrast).

 

That is better - I don't have photoshop , but I'll check my crappy little program for contrast. Thanks

 

Thanks for all the votes!!

 

Next time you see Todd at Feathered Friends, tell him you saw him in a photo contest.

 

See if he squirms

[cluck]

[acceptance speech]

Thank you! Oh! Thank you! Wow, I'm so excited! Lets see, I'd like to thank my partner for taking these pictures. I'd like to thank all the other photographers for their contributions. And to the academy for their nomination. Also, I wanna give a shout out to my boyz in B-town. I love you guys!

 

Thank you, America. And goodnight!

[/speech]

 

Seriously though, it's pretty flattering gettin the silver medal and all. Thanks!

[goatboy]

Hey goatboy--where was that pic taken?

 

Thanks for asking. I actually got a few PM's asking the same thing, so for the record:

 

The snow arete is on the South Ridge of Mt. Dixon in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, about this time last year.

 

It's a nice long, moderate New Zealand Grade 2+, which entails some glacier travel, a bergschrund crossing, about 5.7 rock climbing on pretty good rock (for New Zealand), a few hundred feet of steep snow and ice, and the long moderate snow arete seen in the picture.

 

As the photo shows, you get several thousand feet (at least) up off of the Grand Plateau glacier, with constant exposure and extremely aesthetic climbing.

 

The descent takes you down a long snow ridge/arete of gentler angle, almost as aesthetic as the ascent.

 

Highly recommended, though somewhat overshadowed by the hulking mass of Mt Cook nearby -- a bit like climbing something mild on Ingalls Peak and feeling insubstantial as you look up at the mass of Stuart nearby . . . the beer still tasted good back at the hut, I'll say that much at least.

[layton]

start bitching! this is way to supportive for this website.

losers: speak up and complain!

 

I'll start. You suck for not picking my photos. End debate.

[Distel32]

start bitching! this is way to supportive for this website.

losers: speak up and complain!

 

I'll start. You suck for not picking my photos. End debate.

 

 

I thought it was interesting that the bouldering pictures that won were scenic photos rather than actual bouldering pictures

[Dru]

bwahaha distel syubmitted all those bouldering pics and none of them won!

[layton]

yeah, you are a Looo ooo oo ooser! I'm not going to your slideshow now.

[Distel32]

yeah, you are a Looo ooo oo ooser! I'm not going to your slideshow now.

 

[mtngrrrl]

I was out of town and just checked in on the contest tonight. Thanks for the votes! It was fun to be inspired to share photos on the site. I'll be doing more of it.

 

Cheers to everyone who added photos. I enjoyed the scenery.

[mvs]

thanks for the votes on my snowpatch spire pic! Now I'll have to spend my whole life trying to top it, a futile endeavor which can only end in misery. Great contest, great idea. Love the humor category winner.