😃Spring Photography Competition Final is now OPEN for Voting😃

[Soph0571]

Hello my lovely fellow DUers.

We have had a marvellous Spring Competition with 30 original and varied images being submitted. The Preliminary round of voting closed earlier today, and so it time for us to once again ask you all to vote for your favourite of the favourites. I think you may have a difficult time choosing. They are all awe inspiring images, and bring a bucket load of beauty into what is a rather dismal time. A huge thank you for everyone who took part and even if your image did not make it into the final they were still terrific. Well done to the 9 images that made it into the final. Your pictures are out of this world.

The poll will stay open for 72 hours and I will announce the winner shortly there after.

So without further ado ladies and gentlemen - the finalists are:

Do Bee Dobee Dooo . . .


Feed me, feed me!


Surprise


The Red Admiral


Cabin in the woods


Late Spring 3rd Street Stuff


Juncos on my porch


New Life - June 2020


Foster Kittens


Posted in GD per Skinners Permission

65 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Time expired
	Do Bee Dobee Dooo . . .
	21 (32%)
	Feed me, feed me!
	8 (12%)
	Surprise
	6 (9%)
	The Red Admiral
	3 (5%)
	Cabin in the woods
	7 (11%)
	Late Spring 3rd Street Stuff
	10 (15%)
	Juncos on my porch
	3 (5%)
	New Life - June 2020
	3 (5%)
	Foster Kittens
	4 (6%)
	1 DU member did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[SheltieLover]

1. Tough choices as they are all gorgeous!

K&R

[Soph0571]

20. I always abstain in the final when I am hosting

Just as well cause this is an impossible choice!!!

[SheltieLover]

36. Thank you so much, Soph! And all entrants

For bringing joy to our lives through sharing your images!

[Zoonart]

2. Congrats photogs....

Absolutely beautiful work.

[Soph0571]

21. Not just photogs

We have had some new DUers join in and that makes it very exciting

[Zoonart]

26. That's really Great Soph.

Thanks for your leadership and hard work on this.

[a kennedy]

3. Wow.........I swear to gawd, these ALL could be #1......

All are spectacular!!

[Soph0571]

22. Yeppers

Aren't they just splendid!

[SheltieLover]

37. Indeed! 😍😍😍

Amazing!

- Soph & photographers!

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

I love, love the bee and the snake. All great though.

[Soph0571]

23. I think the bee is my favourite

But I never vote in the finals when I am hosting, so I can happily say they are all equally gorgeous

[Solly Mack]

44. I voted for the bee during the prelims.

It's an excellent shot.

The snake this go round because it's a great shot and I'm fond of snakes.

Fond of bees too.

I'd hang both in my home.

I'd also hang the cabin, the butterfly, the street art, the...

I really like them all.

[a kennedy]

40. Love, love, love the snake as well.......

[Solly Mack]

45. He wants to play. :)

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Really tough this month.

[Soph0571]

24. There are a couple that where way ahead in the prelims

It will be interesting to see if that bears out in the final. Often it does not.

[SheltieLover]

38. I'm watching that too! 😁

[happybird]

6. Wow!

Fantastic entries! It was very hard to choose just one.

[Alliepoo]

7. Beautiful one and all!!!

It was hard to decide!

[flamin lib]

8. knr

[mnhtnbb]

9. Impossible to choose!

All marvelous shots all telling the story of spring.

[Soph0571]

25. How good it this?

Soph beams with pride at what we can produce!

[panader0]

10. I voted for the Red Admiral--a great composition.

But they are all good, thanks Soph.

[Soph0571]

27. You are very welcome :-)

I love hosting the competitions. It brings out my organised and bossy sides

[alfredo]

11. KNR

[Green Line]

12. Really tough choice this month

I could easily vote for every one of them

[MichaelSoE]

13. Great stuff... bump

[BlueDawn]

14. Gorgeous.

Such beautiful photos!

[CozyMystery]

15. It was a tough choice ... all the photos are great!

I voted for Feed Me, Feed Me because that photo captures the first signs of spring at my house. We always have 3 nests full of eggs, and then baby birds, 2 on the columns under the front porch roof and one on the kitchen windowsill (which is outside).

[NightWatcher]

16. Where is that cabin? reminds me of a place near Brevard, NC

[Soph0571]

28. No idea - but maybe the person who entered will see the question and pop by with the answer :-) n/t

[CMYK]

41. Western NC

So you were close (and I love Brevard)!
This cabin is just north of a small town called Rutherfordton.

[NightWatcher]

47. I love the area! Was supposed to get a place near Dupont State Forest before....

[2naSalit]

17. Wow, tough choice!

[Soph0571]

29. I hope you made one! n/t

[2naSalit]

33. Of course I did!

[Dem2theMax]

18. Voted.

Now can someone tell me how I can get to that cabin?
I want to live there.

[Soph0571]

30. Yeah it is all good...

... until you are under a feet of snow without central heating...

[Dem2theMax]

32. If I were twenty years younger,

none of that would bother me in the least.
Now that I'm old and arthritic, shoveling snow doesn't sound as fun as it did when I actually lived in the mountains.

Foot of snow? Try many, many feet of snow.
All these years later, my back still remembers all those feet of snow.

[Soph0571]

34. I am so urban I can't even...

[Dem2theMax]

35. Lol! Yep, on a really cold day, that's pretty much what it felt like.

Not only did I live in the mountains, I worked outside. I had to get my 'must live in the mountains and run a chairlift' feeling out of my system.

There was one day that I know it was 10 below, but I had no idea what the windchill factor was that day. I do remember it was very windy. I still wish I could have found out what it was with windchill factor.

You actually get used to it. You can eat anything you want and you burn it all off. Nobody tells you that when it starts warming up, don't eat so much. All of a sudden your pants are too tight. And when I say warm up, I'm talking about 25 degrees.

Once you get into the below zero numbers, when it comes back up into the twenties, we were actually wearing t-shirts, and sweating. Seriously. Those were the good old days!

[CMYK]

42. Ha!

Last edited Tue Jun 23, 2020, 07:51 PM - Edit history (1)

We only average 4" of snow per winter! (Cabin is in Rutherford County, NC)

[Dem2theMax]

50. Only 4 inches?

My ancient / arthritic body can handle 4 inches of snow!
Packing the car and heading to North Carolina!

[CMYK]

53. Research is your friend

Some of the higher elevations don't see their sidewalks until April. I'm getting advanced in years and prefer the more gentle foothills.

[a kennedy]

19. kicking......

please vote.

[tblue37]

31. K&R for visibility. nt

[littlemissmartypants]

39. Thank you!

Kick.

[HotTeaBag]

43. I have to 'pass'.

Impossible to choose.

[Duppers]

62. Same here.

Wish we could have 2 or 3 votes.

[CMYK]

46. Kick!

[mnhtnbb]

48. Kick!

[Dem2theMax]

49. Kicking!

[flamin lib]

51. Kickin' one more time. VOTE (consider it practice)

[alfredo]

52. Kickkkkkkkkkkk

It

[Dem2theMax]

54. Another kick for all of the beautiful photographs.

[trueblue2007]

55. Soooooooooooooooooooooooo wonderful.

[Soph0571]

56. kick for visibility

[Hortensis]

57. A gift that keeps giving. Thanks, Soph. This is wonderful again.

[smirkymonkey]

58. Unfortunately, there were five photos I couldn't see, including the most popular choice, so

I chose my favorite of the rest, although it was a toss-up. Of those I could view, very hard to choose. Beautiful pics!

[Soph0571]

64. Do you want me to send them to you via DU mail?

You would need to let me know which ones!

[smirkymonkey]

68. Sure!

They were:

Do Bee Dobee Dooo . . .
Surprise
The Red Admiral
Juncos on my Porch
and
Foster Kittens.

Thanks, Soph! Appreciate it!

[Soph0571]

69. Expect incoming! n/t

[oasis]

59. First rate photos.

[Talitha]

60. kick

[a kennedy]

61. Please vote......

[Soph0571]

66. I have just realised that this thread has been trashed

Who the hell does that for a photography contest?!?! Good grief

[flamin lib]

63. kick

[alfredo]

65. Kick

[Soph0571]

67. kickety kick

[CaliforniaPeggy]

70. About time for another kick!

[IcyPeas]

71. kickety kick

[Niagara]

72. Wonderful submissions this month!

Great job everyone!

[Skittles]

73. is it me or is this one of the hardest ones ever?

[Talitha]

74. kick

[lark]

75. K & R for our very talented photographers and for Soph0571 - these are awesome!

Every one of them is a winner! I voted for the little fawn because it is so sweet and I thought it deserved more votes. Otherwise I would have voted for "Surprise", which will probably win because it is an amazing composition.

[Wawannabe]

76. Was tough to choose

But the detail on the bee was outstanding and tipped it for me.

Again, all were fantastic!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

77. Kick!

[Cadfael]

78. Kick!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

79. Kick!

[Soph0571]

80. kick

[CaliforniaPeggy]

81. Kick!

[CMYK]

82. Kick!

Let's try and make this a huge kick... add your ideas, everything counts. I'll start with:

a chorus line kick
a field goal kick

[Talitha]

83. kick

[Rhiannon12866]

84. K&R! Any one of these could easily be my favorite!

Awesome efforts from DU's talented photographers!

[burrowowl]

85. Kick

[Soph0571]

86. Morning!!!! Only seven hours left to vote!

[Sophiegirl]

87. K&R.

Wonderful photos.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

88. Thanks, Soph. Perhaps you could add the contest theme to your text.....

as a reminder so we keep our decisions within that theme (springtime, I think).

Great selections all the way through and our photographers are to be commended!

KY...........

[mnhtnbb]

89. Still time to vote!

[CatLady78]

90. Kick

I like the little kicking donkey!

[Freedomofspeech]

91. So hard to choose...

They are all beautiful!

[Kaleva]

92. All of them are very good!

[MuseRider]

93. Kicking this wonderful thread! n/t