+++++Here are the Winners - top 10 Spots in order+++++ April Photo Contest “Color Riot”

[Mira]

I was glad to do the work of posting for this contest, Whoa_Nelly actually was the winner and I did this as a favor more or less at the last minute, which explains why I had an entry in the contest.


Congratulations to everyone for participating, this has been a riot of color and fun,
I'm leaving in the photos so you get to see them all one more time

1st Place goes to justiceischeap

for the wonderful portrait of

Hon


It would be great to know where it was taken and if Hon knows of her good luck


2nd Place goes to Mira for

Dance like everyone's watching…



I took that a half a year ago in a Restaurant on top of a mountain in San Jose Costa Rica


3rd Place goes to Solly Mack for

Colors in Motion



Many of us have expressed curiosity about how she achieved it. Maybe now she will let us know


4th place is shared by

I'm Feeling Blue by NV Whino



and
Farmer's Market Flowers by dyedinthewoolliberal






5th place belongs to Binkie the Clown for

Sunflowers



6th comes next for Tom Kitten with

Inside Salvation Mountain



7th is Turborama with

Purple Power



8th is Mz Pip with

Tiptoe Through the Tulips With Me



and then finally we have CC with

Himalayas meet Hawaii at Longwood




My hostess awards go to postatomic for his intriguing photograph called

Moments



and to JDB for the architecture and color in

Eye catching



Thank you, everyone, and take it away for the contest in May, Justiceischeap!

[CurtEastPoint]

1. DU's Got Talent!!

[femmocrat]

2. Congratulations and thank you to all!

I really enjoyed this month's colorful entries!

[Solly Mack]

3. Congratulations to justiceischeap! & Mira!! (Thanks - !!)

I made a wind tunnel (of sorts) with an opening for my camera. I then placed various small items inside, turned on the wind source and snapped away.

[djean111]

4. Yay! They are all beautiful, but I want to be Hon when I am that age.

[justiceischeap]

5. Wow! I can't believe how many people liked my portrait of "Hon"

This was taken last year in Baltimore at the annual "Honfest" and sadly, Hon was a random passerby that was wonderful enough to let me capture her presence on camera so I've no means of letting her know how popular she is.

A little about the Honfest:

Think all summer street festivals are about the same? Check out HonFest. Locatecd in the Baltimore neighborhood of Hampden, HonFest celebrates the working women who helped make this great city what it is.

“Hon”, short for Honey, is a classic Bawlmer term of endearment. For generations, it has expressed the warmth and affection bestowed upon neighbors and visitors alike by our mothers and grandmothers.

Since 1994, HonFest has grown from a tiny Baltimore's Best Hon pageant behind Café Hon, to a nationally recognized festival that covers four city blocks on Hampden's very own 36th Street. In recent years, the festival has been acknowledged by The New York Times, Rachel Ray's Tasty Travels, Nightly News with Brian Williams, The New York Post, Southern Living, The LA Times, HGTV, CNN, and The New Yorker.

Each year, revelers from every corner of our city, region, and nation--not to mention from overseas—have come to Hampden to celebrate Baltimore heritage and experience what makes the town like no other.

http://www.honfest.net/whatis.html

Let me just say that Honfest is a hoot!

Thanks for voting for the portrait of this wonderful character.

For anyone in the area, this years Honfest takes place on (I'm not affiliated with the Honfest in any shape or form):

June 13: 11am to 10pm
June 14: Noon to 6pm

On edit:
I'm not used to winning anything, so my manners briefly escaped me. Congrats to all the participants, your photos were wonderful.

[annabanana]

6. great stuff!!!. . . .n/t

[AtomicKitten]

7. All winners in my book.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Wonderful photos, and congrats to the winners! n/t

[mnhtnbb]

9. Congrats to the winners!

I'll bet Hon would love to know that a shot of her won a photography contest!

From those colors, I would have thought the shot had something to do with Mardi Gras.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

10. YAY!! Great work!

I love seeing more work, GREAT!!

[GoCubsGo]

11. I don't know how I missed the April contest...

I'm really sorry I did.

[Fumesucker]

12. Congratulations everyone

[barbtries]

13. kick

[alfredo]

14. Congrats to the winners

[Whoa_Nelly]

15. Hearty congratulations to all!

Wonderful and beautiful photos by all!

And, a special thank you to Mira for helping me out in getting all the polls and winners posted as I couldn't do that part of the contest as I have no member Star privileges, and for all the support in getting the April contest off the ground.
Mira!

And, a big thank you to Mz Pip, too, for the total support and help in collecting the photos for the contest; She made it an easy process for this first-timer.
Mz Pip!

[trusty elf]

16. Delightful photos!

They're all superb! Congratulations!

[a kennedy]

17. Wouldn't have had it any other way.....