494th Show & Tell Competition: Going for a walk... - WINNER

[jarekm]

Thank you very much to all participants for posting your photos. It was a hard choice to pick the winners.

Runners up:

Margaret Lew:


Markus Grompe:


Gill Kopy:


David Decroix:


The winners:
3rd place, Arnie Peterschmidt:


2nd place, Marat Klochko:


1st place, Carol J. Phipps:

[gillk]

Congrats to Carol and other winners - and a big thanks for an HM - I can appreciate how difficult it was to choose winners with so many great entries.
Gill

[mclew]

Congratulations to the Winners and HM's! A neat topic and a great variety of fine photos.

Margaret Lew

[peterschmidtab]

Congratulations to Carol. Thank you Jarek for third place and an excellent theme.

[jarekm]

I've just been notified by Carol that she was admitted to the hospital with a serious health issue and will not be able to run the next contest.

The S&T rules stipulate that it should be taken over by the second place winner, in this instance Marat Klochko i.e. Rule 5:

5. If you know you will not be able to post a contest, judge it, and post winners, within these timeframes, please do not start one. Instead, notify the person running the contest, so they can pass it on to the second place winner.

I will message Marat, but I am not sure if there is anything else to be done to ensure a smooth transition to Marat?

Jarek

[amoxtli]

I've just been notified by Carol that she was admitted to the hospital with a serious health issue and will not be able to run the next contest.

The S&T rules stipulate that it should be taken over by the second place winner, in this instance Marat Klochko i.e. Rule 5:

5. If you know you will not be able to post a contest, judge it, and post winners, within these timeframes, please do not start one. Instead, notify the person running the contest, so ty can pass it on to the second place winner.

I will message Marat, but I am not sure if there is anything else to be done to ensure a smooth transition to Marat?

Jarek

Hi Jarek,
The only person who can transfer the next competition from Carol to Marat is Emily. I have been able to get the competition transferred by contacting her several times before. Sometimes it has taken a couple of weeks.

Here is her email address: emily@pbase.com

If Emily does not reset the competition we will have to wait until Carol is out of the hospital. The only other option is that someone gets Carol's username and password and posts the competition. She can always reset her password later.

Hope there's not too much of a delay.

Walter

[maratk]

Congratulations to Carol (excellent shot) and let's wish her fast recovery.
Thank you Jarek for the appreciation.
I'll check with moderators how to proceed and will announce the next competition theme shortly.
All the best,
Marat

[jarekm]

I've emailed Emily and the Pbase support. Let's hope the problem will be resolved quickly.

Jarek

[ddecroix]

Thanks for the HM and congrats to the winners.
Hope that Carol will get better quick.

[jolka]

Congratulations to all the winners in this nice topic challenge.

[jarekm]

Very disappointing, not a word from Emily or PB Support. I am not sure what else I could do. It looks like PBase is destroying itself by providing sub-standard service to its most loyal customers.

BTW
Likewise, no response about images sorting feature that stopped working a while ago.

Jarek

I've emailed Emily and the Pbase support. Let's hope the problem will be resolved quickly.

Jarek

[cits_4_pets]

Thank you for emailing Emily and trying to get the contest up and running. Yes, it is very sad that Pbase lack of support and improvements seem to be fading away like a photo in the sun....

Very disappointing, not a word from Emily or PB Support. I am not sure what else I could do. It looks like PBase is destroying itself by providing sub-standard service to its most loyal customers.

BTW
Likewise, no response about images sorting feature that stopped working a while ago.

Jarek

I've emailed Emily and the Pbase support. Let's hope the problem will be resolved quickly.

Jarek

[emily]

Hi Guys,

Marat is all set to host the next competition. I'm sorry for the delay. I've been out sick. In the future, if I do not update competition changes soon enough, the alternate host can always start the next competition as a regular thread, then I can go in and flag it as sticky and make it an official competition thread.

Thanks,
Emily

[amoxtli]

Hi Guys,

Marat is all set to host the next competition. I'm sorry for the delay. I've been out sick. In the future, if I do not update competition changes soon enough, the alternate host can always start the next competition as a regular thread, then I can go in and flag it as sticky and make it an official competition thread.

Thanks,
Emily

Great news! Thank you Emily!

[gillk]

Hi Marat - where are you ???