Choose your Top 10 (you have multiple votes!)
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You have the ability to choose your top 10 choices by selecting them from the poll.
The poll will remain open for 72 hours, and any previously registered member of DGrin may vote.

Warning you will not be able to come back and add more choices after you click the voting button.

There were 4 disqualifications this round
LizK - I love peacocks!, Linux - I love my daughter, Olavistaphotography - My girl Syd & chas - Moon beam. chasmcnphoto.com.
All due to not being taken within the challenge date (Not Fresh) - Please try again in round 71


P.S. If your observant you will see that more than 10 can be chosen. Just remember if you vote for all of them it's like you didn't vote *Also you are able to see any photo in its large form by clicking on it.

Hard to pick just 10 in this round!

Incredibly high standard this time around, voting will be harder than ever!

Great stuff! This theme brings out the best, doesn't it? There's real emotion, well captured and participants showing us pieces of who they are! This was a fun round to join and to observe.

Well said, gentleman....seems like every picture in this group reflects a bright bit of emotion from the photographer. Picking 10 will be both a delight and a challenge of its own.

Great stuff.

If you like to look at them full size, here's the link to the Gallery:
http://challenges.smugmug.com/Other/...84751873_JDz4M

How to pick?

If you click on the photos in this thread, you can also view them full size.

Great round, everyone! Wonderful work!

Announcing the Top 5 Images for DSS round #70 (What you Love)

Love the warmth, the light, the rose...

A big congratulations goes to cromwell for first place:
The Romantic


The following photographers are now qualified to participate in the current #11 Mega-Challenge.
Because you are able to play in the Mega, you are not eligible to participate in DSS #71.

cromwell
ghinson
davev
DsrtVW
sgonen

Congratulations to everyone who participated in submitting as well as commenting, Thank you!
Winning PM's will be sent out before the close of the next challenge.

Congratulations cromwell for the beautiful entry


Also congratulations to:

ghinson :
davev
DsrtVW
sgonen

Thank you to those who voted for my entry too :)

Well done! Give that dog a treat!

Congrats cromwell, well deserved
congrats to the other top 5 as well

"good doggie. good doggie. let's get a TREAT!" Congrats.

Cromwell, congratulations on winning this challenge with a very fine image!

To the other winners, well done!

And thank you to everyone who entered a photo in this challenge, putting something of yourself "out there" by showing us what you love. Great round!

To all who voted for my Beauty of Light image, I appreciate your affirmation.

Congrats to the top 5!!! Great images!

Great work everyone and congrats to the top 5!!

Very nice!
Very much deserved cromwell and the other top finishers.

Nice work everyone!

Cromwell you need to sell that one to Hallmark. It is just classic.
All the elements and the dogs expression. You feel the love.

AS always so many great shots to chose from.
Congrats to all the finalist.
Thank you for the votes on the rejected Pintail duck

OUTSTANDING! Congrates to Cromwell and all the runners up!!

Congrat's to Cromwell, and a thank you to the folks that voted for my shot.

[FONT=Levenim MT]Thanks everybody, and congrats to the others in the top 5. This shot took me 3 attempts on 3 different days. I was a lot happier with the looks of the fire in the first shots, but this was the best overall. Winston was a great model. He did, for some reason, tend to lean forward quite a bit after I put the rose in his mouth and I kept having to give a throwing motion directly over his head so he would sit up straighter. By the third day, he knew the game well enough that as soon as I picked up the camera in the kitchen, he went into the living room and sat in the exact correct spot in front of the fireplace. I've never used anything but flashes for indoor lighting before and it took me the three shoots to figure out the correct lighting using what I had. Other than using indirect window lighting, I got out my work light stand that has two 500 watt halogen bulbs attached. I stretched the stand out to about 6 feet tall and pointed the lamps up at an angle to bounce the light off the ceiling. Anyway, a few people have commented on the lighting and just thought I would share.[/FONT]