*****A brief run-off*****Please vote for your favorite photo here

We take the top 3 vote getters from the individual voting threads and then the next highest vote getter to make the final one.
Sometimes, like this time, we have a tie and I need you to break it.

We have two vote getters from thread one that ended up with the same amount of votes.

Rocky Mountain Reflects



Petroglyph National Monument, New Mexico

It was awful - ****GD went away**** while I was posting the third thread

Here is what happened - and how I chose to deal with it
I did not - after a reboot - and some other ways to call for and spell out GD (LOL)
have any choice but to post the third thread in the photo group, then hoping eventually to link them up.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215108715

you will find the three links there or here


one
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10024979

two
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10025006

three

https://www.democraticunderground.com/103683731


this was quite awful - but as you know it was a bad co-incidence and thank goodness not my fault

If you see anything amiss please let me know, I'm still all shook up.

Friends of the photographers PLEASE READ***about contest links*** it was tricky because GD went out

Got into a heap of trouble posting the threads for February.HELP please

For reasons I cannot ascertain my post 3 became a read only post and i had to post it in the photogroup

I cannot post in GD at all therefore I need help from anyone who sees this:
Here are the links:
one
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10024979

two
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10025006

three

https://www.democraticunderground.com/103683731

*****Feb. Photography Contest*****Preliminary Voting thread 3 of 3 --please look and vote in all 3 -

Denali’s Peak


Spot the courageous one! Resting on Cathedral Rock Sedona



Sunset, Honeymoon Island State Park, Dunedin Florida



Dusk at Lassen Volcanic National Park, California



Humpy - Circle B Bar Reserve



Morning on Yellowstone Lake



Death Valley




Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington State



Island in the Sky



Morning Eagle-Glacier National Park

*****Feb. Photography Contest*****Preliminary Voting thread 2 of 3 --please look and vote in all 3

The February Photography Contest Theme is
NATIONAL and State Parks = we allowed a bit of leeway because travel is restricted but it was not really necessary. All of us had great photos in our archives, and here they are.

Please vote in all three threads, make comments (we love to read them), and enjoy!


Also, please help keep the threads kicked.

Link to thread 1 https://www.democraticunderground.com/10024979
Link to thread 3

https://www.democraticunderground.com/103683731


The preliminaries will run for 72 hours
They are in GD with the approval of the Administration.

Thank you - now vote for your favorites in all three threads.

Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Las Vegas



Badlands National Park, South Dakota



Valley of Fire State Park



Point Dume State Beach, California State Parks



Denali National Park, Alaska



In 1066 they sat beneath a [now English Heritage] Tree



Spring in the Tetons



John Day Fossil Beds National Monument- Sheep Rock



Old and Faithful Friend



South Kaibab trail, Grand Canyon National Park

*****Feb. Photography Contest*****Preliminary Voting thread 1 of 3 --please look and vote in all 3

Mosquito Lake State Park, Trumbull County, Ohio



Rocky Mountain Reflects



Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming



Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area, CO State Parks



Steam Rising From the Springs - Ichetucknee Springs SP in FL



Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park



Admiring the Cherry Blossoms in the Tidal Basin--West Potomac Park, Washington, DC



Big Bend National Park



Buffalo National River, Jasper Arkansas



Petroglyph National Monument, New Mexico

Actions have consequences - I sincerely hope it will apply here, one way or another

*****Before closing the contest, which is now full*****asking urbanhermit

The way I see it, urbanhermit who has submitted 2 of them, submitted the last one after we had 30 photos. We can't go over, because each poll can only hold 10 photos.
So, dear urbanhermit, chose the one you want to keep in, and remove the other.

I love your last entry.....both of them, and I'm sorry.

*****Opening up the February contest for a few more submissions*****

Our entries stalled just when the second impeachment trial began. Understandable! But now all we have to handle is the probably paltry and boring defense, so I will open this up to fill out the 30 spots - I believe we have 4 openings left, and second submissions are now allowed.
I am awed at the power of the photos we already have, and hope you will round it up to 30. I'm off to get my second shot of covid vaccine.
I feel privileged.
Thank you all! I will close submissions on the 18th of February.