Winners Of Mini Challenge #103 - Two is a party, three is a crowd

korandoke

First of all, it was very hard to make a desission amongst all these wonderwull pictures, I have seen some stunning photo-art!!!
But after long delibetation I have finally made my choice!

Some of the pictures, I thought were not according to the task I had given. 3 :scratch ore more is not the same as 2 and I often did not see the similarity between the 2 on the picture:dunno so I judged them first according to wheater ore not the challengetopic was in the picture, and then I sorted them by beauty, artlevel and quality.
Not easy at all!!

I have put the best pictures in cronological order:

starting with the last but not least



















































Third place: Jwear



Second place: Raf F.




And the winner is, at first place: Davev

ghinson

Congrats davev!

dlscott56

Congratulations Dave! That is a beautiful shot for sure.

Ray F

Congrats Davev.

And i'm honored to see my images appear on the winners list too

davev

Thanks korandoke and the rest of you.

Quick story behind the shot.
It was one of the colder mornings here in Minnesota, somewhere between -16 and -22.
My good friend Adam (Grimace) was dumb enough to go the swan area with me before sunrise ... again.
There's a power plant upstream from this area and when the temps are below 0, steam rises up from the river.
To the east, the sun rises directly over the river. The combo of steam and beams of light shinning through it
gives a person some great chances to capture these beautiful swans in a great atmospheric setting.

This has become a regular place for me to shoot in the cold weather of a Minnesota winter.

Thanks again, I'll have a new Mini up some time tonight.

WhatSheSaw

Double congrats, davev! Congrats for the win and kudos for braving the weather! I don't get out much in our balmy Seattle winters.

kris10jo

Congratulations davev and all! Great photos!

jwear

thank you for the 3rd slot. Raf f really nice shot well done concrats davev

tinamarie52

Congrats davev...absolutely awesome shot.

Thanks for including mine in your picks.

chris

brancaleone

Great job davev!

davev wrote: »

Thanks korandoke and the rest of you.

Quick story behind the shot.
It was one of the colder mornings here in Minnesota, somewhere between -16 and -22.
My good friend Adam (Grimace) was dumb enough to go the swan area with me before sunrise ... again.
There's a power plant upstream from this area and when the temps are below 0, steam rises up from the river.
To the east, the sun rises directly over the river. The combo of steam and beams of light shinning through it
gives a person some great chances to capture these beautiful swans in a great atmospheric setting.

This has become a regular place for me to shoot in the cold weather of a Minnesota winter.

Thanks again, I'll have a new Mini up some time tonight.

I hope un day you would take me with you and teach me about photography and wildlife in Minnesota.
Congratulations.

StueveShots

This was a fun competition! Congratulations, Davev! That was a beautiful shot.

Actually...all of these were great shots. So congrats to everyone!

Roaddog 52

Concrats to the winners, and all of the particpants. I had a couple I wanted to post, but I have been busy at work and time got away from me. I am going to have to pay better attention in the future.