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Thanks you to everyone for participating in this weeks contest. There were so many great entries and it was very difficult to choose a winner. Great job everyone. So here's the winners:

3rd Place:
Third place goes to Peter Eklof. I chose this one because it has such a wonderful fine art feel to it. Great use of B&W and I love the facial expression. Nice work Peter! View Peter's Galleries here: Peter Eklof


2nd Place:

Second place goes to Fran Hallett. This is an excellent photograph! Dogs know how to relax in the best places and this is a great example of that. Nice work Fran! Check out Fran's galleries here: Fran Hallett


1st place:

This weeks winner of the Show & Tell contest is Richard Anderson. I loved this image the moment I saw it. It's the way animals interact with us that makes them so special and so important to us. I feel that this is an excellent example of that bond and connection. Excellent work Richard and congratulations. Contest #22 is all yours! Check out Richard's Galleries here: Richard Anderson

Congrats to the winners ! It's deserved !

Dom

Congrats to the winner, a really great shot witha wondergul DOF.
Cheers

Cool

Congratulations. They are all excellent choices.

However, I seemed to remember seeing that image posted as a Large size image (confirmed by looking at my archive of the thread, and checking it again now). I thought that that was violation of the contest rules, which I suppose the Judge didn't read, either:

kman627 wrote:
The Rules:
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3. Post only the medium versions of you picture. Larger versions will not be considered.

By this standard, the winning image should have been disqualified. That would have been a pity, but on the other hand, why bother having "rules" if they're ignored? Isn't that unfair to the entrants who do read and follow the rules?

Great point you've brought up there and I completely overlooked that this image did violate the rules. I do pay attention to the rules and for some reason it just didn't click that the winning image was in the wrong size. Had I know that I would have been forced not to pick the image as the winner. But there's really nothing that can be done about it at this point. I think perhaps this rule needs to be emphasized more so that everyone is perfectly clear on the rules. It would be nice if there was some way that a mod could delete any images that do not follow this rule. Anyway, thanks for pointing this out and I appologize for my oversite.

Regards,

Kyle

Thank you, Kyle.