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Thanks everyone for your submissions to the competition. The quality of the entries makes coming to a decision difficult, but here are my choices:

Four honorable mentions.

Who can resist this wonderful photo by erichmangl?


The soft light, the combination (to me) of the commonplace and the exotic make this shot by gillk a winner.


Fall is in the air, but the brave flower resists. By atucker.


Simply a classic by azicit.




Third place: A lovely moment by nsaratan. You wish you were there.


Second Place. The static archway frame, dynamic motion of the train and woman, a brief moment in time and a great caption too! By slkorolev.


First Place to gpmerfeld. Along with all of the emotion conveyed by this expertly captured scene, one is left wondering if that is the perfect frame for the dog, or the perfect dog for the frame!


Congratulations and thanks again to all!
On to you, Mr Merfeld.

Congratulations to Mr. Merfeld and the other winners! Very nice selections!!

Cheers,

Terry

Excellent topic Nelson! I don't know how you managed to narrow the field to your winners, with so many fantastic entries. Great choices! Congrats to the winners and honorable mentions, and especially to the wonderful first place capture.

Thanks Mangoman for the HM - much honoured !! Congrats to the other winners and especially Mr. Merfeld - what a great shot.

Thank you so much, Mangoman! It is really an honor, for there were so many wonderful submissions for your outstanding theme... In the end, it comes down to tough decisions and personal choice, and we all appreciate the time you took to do so...

Congratulations to everyone for such fine entries...

I will now humbly take on the responsibility for the next contest. I will post the new topic right away.

Thanks again, or as we say over here, 'Mahalo nui loa!"

Aloha,
GP

sandiwhi wrote:I don't know how you managed to narrow the field to your winners, with so many fantastic entries. Great choices!

gpmerfeld wrote: there were so many wonderful submissions for your outstanding theme... In the end, it comes down to tough decisions and personal choice, and we all appreciate the time you took to do so...

Thanks guys. In fact it was really tough. The decision making evolved over two days. I made bookmarks of about 2 dozen candidates that initially caught my eye. This allowed me to easily switch between them for comparison or another look. Gradually (and painfully) I would eliminate one. Finally a decision had to be reached.

Once again thanks to all for the great submissions, and the photographic inspiration I receive daily here on pbase.

Thank you Mangoman! Never thought I would move to the second place
Congratulations to other mentioned people and especially to the winner gpmerfeld! Great photos!

Regards, Sergey

Thank you Mangoman, I know it's always hard to pick a winner among the winners. And thank you for the 3rd )