!!!!!March Photo Contest Winner's Thread!!!!!

[Solly Mack]

March Photo Contest Winner's Thread


Theme: Graffiti/Street Art

1st Place:[font size="4"] [font color="blue"]alfredo [/font color][/font size]

"Ladders with Shadows"




2nd Place: [font size="4"][font color = "red"] Mira [/font color][/font size]

"Trompe L'Oeil...and find the painted sleeping Cat"




3rd Place:[font size="4"] [font color="purple"]mth44sc [/font color][/font size]

"Out of the Ashes"




Congratulations!!!! to alfredo !!!!



As the WINNER , alfredo will host next month's contest.


Congratulations to Mira and mth44sc!!!!

Rounding out the Top 10

4. bluedigger - "Grabbing a Little Air"
5. Earth First - "Light the Night"
6. MichaelSoE - "Lights are on but Nobody's Home" (Tie)
6. Callalily - "Dragon in the Alley" (Tie)
7. Blue_In_AK - "Men at Work"
8. MattSh - "Victor's Vendetta"
9. Agschmid - "#subwayrainbow"

Honorable Mention


"Junk" by ljm2002




"You looking' at me?" by NV Whino





Host's Picks

"Any Revolutionary Change" by justiceischeap



"#subwayrainbow" by Agschmid

Now about that cat...







Thank you, Mira! - for adding an extra fun element to this month's contest!

Blind Submissions: Full reveal


1. Blue_In_AK - "Men at Work"

2. Agschmid - "#subwayrainbow"

3. mnhtnbb - "Red, White, and Blue Danube"

4. Callalily - "Dragon in the Alley"

5. justiceischeap - "Any Revolutionary Change"

6. Earth First - "Light the Night"

7. alfredo - "Ladders with Shadows"

8. bluedigger - "Grabbing a Little Air"

9. MattSh - "Victor's Vendetta"

10. NV Whino - "You looking' at me?"

11. Celebration - "Doodlemania on My Bathroom Wall"

12. MichaelSoE - "Lights are on but Nobody's Home"

13. Kali - "Coche de Cranios"

14. handmade34 - "End"

15. ljm2002 - "Junk"

16. Mira - "Trompe L'Oeil...and find the painted sleeping Cat"

17. JohnnyRingo - "Sound City"

18. ohheckyeah - "Journey Through Time and Space"

19. Dyedinthewoolliberal - "Urban Art, Everett, WA"

20. mth44sc - "Out of the Ashes"

21. Mz Pip - "Abstract"

Thank you all very much!

Solly Mack

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Congrats to alfredo!

The pictures were wonderful.

And thank you SO MUCH for showing me where the cat is! I looked and looked, and never found it........until now!

Very clever, my dear Mira!

[Solly Mack]

3. You're welcome, CaliforniaPeggy!

People had a lot of fun with Mira's cat!

[MerryBlooms]

2. Exceptional talent, every one. Congrats to all who participated-- well done!

[alsame]

4. Congrats to alfredo and all

the entrants.

These were all such amazing photos!

And thank you so much Solly for the cat detail - it was driving me crazy!

[Solly Mack]

5. You're welcome, alsame!

That cat is damn near famous judging by my PMs.

[handmade34]

6. Congratulations Alfredo, Mira and mth44sc

...all seriously great photos!!

[Mira]

7. I love love love beautiful graffiti and street art.

Alfredo had a very deserved win. I kept coming to his photo just to groove with the color and the shapes.

As for mine, I must possibly thank the cat, but then it is a brilliant job of street art on the river road in Asheville, NC and the photo kind of took itself.

Congrats to Mth44sc for the painted storefront, after the fire, emerging from the ashes.
Lovely.

And it's great to find out who took all the rest of the wonderful pictures. I certainly enjoyed this contest.

[northoftheborder]

8. Outstanding, Alfredo!!

Many excellent photos!!!

[JohnnyRingo]

9. Congratulations to Alfredo, Mira, and Mth!

All the others were wonderful as well.

I especially like "Dragon in the Alley". Though I think that's actually a seahorse, I wouldn't expect to see one of those in an alleyway either. hahaha
Still, a great representation of color, form, and content IMO.

[zeemike]

10. They were all winners in my book

But you have to chose one i know...and I would hate that job.
Congratulations to all...we have some talent here.

[Earth_First]

11. Great job, everyone!

Amazing photographs, fantastic theme and a wonderful host...

I knew right away during submissions that alfredo's photograph was going to run away with this theme. And how.

Congratulations, alfredo!

A bit on my submission:

My photograph was taken with a 50D via 30-second exposure at 28mm (I forget the f-stop; somewhere in the f11 range...) and a led pen light to scribe a grafitti-like image on the exposure.

I actually did a series of these with my wife and daughter one night last summer, including some long-exposure shots with sparklers. So the photograph was actually archival, nothing I shot specifically for this month's theme.

Thanks for the votes, folks. I hope you enjoyed my submission...

[Solly Mack]

12. ...

[bluedigger]

13. Congratulations to all this month's winners.

I can't wait to see what Alfredo has in mind for next month. I was pleasantly surprised at my placement, given that I made the finals on a run-off vote.

[Blue_In_AK]

14. Congrats, Alfredo,

Mira and mth44sc. This was a fun contest.