Congratulations Michael Atkins! DSS #9 (Dusk or Dawn) Winning Photo!

Greensquared · October 6, 2008

Oh my goodness! I cannot believe how many awesome shots there were in this round. So hard to choose just ten! I really thought I had you guys stumped and was looking at low entry numbers up until the last couple of days. But, you all just totally rocked! :clap

Not surprisingly, PaulThomasMcKee and I agreed on just 3 of our selections, leaving a total of 17 for you guys to choose your winner from.

This is an open vote, all DGrin members are eligible to have their say. The poll closes 3 days from now, go go go!!!

In order of entry, the best Dusk or Dawn photos:

#04 – douglas - Multiple Points Of View

#05 – SherwinJames – Heading Into The Night

#19 - JAG - Oats in the morning

#22 - KevXman - The 6:47

#28 - divamum - That ole' man river

#29 - Grly - All Swung Out

#35 - Ratty2austin - Enchanted Breakfast

#39 - peterst6906 - Home Time!

#45 – bch2300 – dusk storm

#51 – Tdcompton – Evening Prism

#54 – CSwinton – Night Evaporates

#55 - jwear - Getting Up

#59 - sbarge - Another day's end at Horsetooth Reservoir

#62 – sherstone – Celestial Alignment

#67 - mactoll - Morning Dorys

#81 - Lars - Golden Harvest

#84 – Michael Atkins – Evening Mist

DoctorIt · October 6, 2008

Another great round - congratulations to all the finalists and thanks to our judges

Mike LeBlanc · October 6, 2008

Wow....some great shots, congrats to everyone!!!

douglas · October 6, 2008

Congrats to all the finalist! What a great round, lots of interesting entries and fun to shoot. I took several shots of quite a few different scenes and changed my entry pretty much every time I got back from trying something different. It was a great round that got me out trying alot of different ideas!

divamum · October 7, 2008

Can't.... quite.... pull.... trigger....

Every time I think I've decided how to cast my vote I go back and look again and think, 'But I want THIS one to win too. And this one! And THIS one!"

I'm still so utterly gobsmacked and excited about having been included (and so tired from a day of travelling) that I'm going to wait until tomorrow to click my choice (assuming I can decide!) but geez - when all the entries are such stunning images ..... how are you supposed to choose just one?!

richtersl · October 7, 2008

I had a feeling that we were going to have a longer list than usual for voting. There were just way too many exceptional photos in this round.

And, it's nice to see so many new faces.

richtersl · October 7, 2008

douglas wrote:

Congrats to all the finalist! What a great round, lots of interesting entries and fun to shoot. I took several shots of quite a few different scenes and changed my entry pretty much every time I got back from trying something different. It was a great round that got me out trying alot of different ideas!

I kept seeing your entry change. Looks like you chose wisely.

The Curious Camel · October 7, 2008

Congrats to all of you and of course to whomever the big winner is.

Tentacion · October 7, 2008

Wow pretty cool....

I had 9 of the winning photos selected in my Top Favs.

Peace,
Donna P.

thebigsky · October 7, 2008

Congrats to the finalists, extraordinarily high standard of entries and a very tough choice.

Charlie

Tango · October 7, 2008

well this is one i wish we had multiple votes...i simply was torn between three shots!....but i managed to vote for one.

great job everyone...!!!

Antonio Correia · October 7, 2008

:cry I missed it :cry

In fact I am having some problems and couldn't get the time to shoot a decent picture.

I tried but what I got was not good enough.
Hope to be able to post next time.:D

There are here some great pictures but for me, only three deserve the vote.
But

as we can vote only on one photo... I did vote on the best one.

Congratulations to all of the finalist and to the winner.

idiom · October 7, 2008

Congrats to all the finalists! Some stiff competition out there.

ilbcnu · October 7, 2008

Really tough to pick only one!! Good luck to all finalists- Great job!!

Tentacion · October 9, 2008

Great Work everyone, I finally voted after giving all the entries alot of thought, as I had picked most of them in my favs. I went with Originality, Technicals, but what got me the most was the Best Interpretation of theme and that I could not be swayed to thinking it was any other time of day.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL....This round is a nail biter !!

Greensquared · October 9, 2008

And the winner is...
A HUGE CONGRATS to Michael Atkins for winning Round #9 of the Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenges!

The following shooters are now eligible to play in the upcoming DSS Mega-Challenge:

Michael Atkins
Ratty2austin
peterst6906
mactoll
bch2300
jwear

And here's the stats:

Place# – Photog - Title - #votes - %

1 – Michael Atkins – Evening Mist - 35 - 24.82
2 - Ratty2austin - Enchanted Breakfast - 17 - 12.06
3 - peterst6906 - Home Time! - 13 - 9.22
4 - mactoll - Morning Dorys - 11 - 7.80
5 - bch2300 – dusk storm - 8 - 5.67
5 - jwear - Getting Up - 8 - 5.67
6 - douglas - Multiple Points Of View - 7 - 4.96
6 – SherwinJames – Heading Into The Night - 7 - 4.96
6 – CSwinton – Night Evaporates - 7 - 4.96
7 - JAG - Oats in the morning - 6 - 4.26
8 – sherstone – Celestial Alignment - 4 - 2.84
9 - KevXman - The 6:47 - 3 - 2.13
9 - divamum - That ole' man river - 3 - 2.13
9 - Grly - All Swung Out - 3 - 2.13
9 – Tdcompton – Evening Prism - 3 - 2.13
9 - sbarge - Another day's end at Horsetooth Reservoir - 3 - 2.13
9 - Lars - Golden Harvest - 3 - 2.13

JAG · October 9, 2008

Congrates Michael!!
Superb shot! Congrates to all the runners up...this was a tough round!

Michael Atkins · October 9, 2008

WoW! I can't believe this actually happened! I am so honored to be in the company of such great photographers. Thank you to DGrin and SmugMug for keeping the challenges going. Thank you to all the people who keep these forums running. Giving us all a place to come, share and learn. Thank you to all the people who voted for my picture and participated in this challenge. Congratulations to Ratty2austin, peterst6906, mactoll, bch2300, jwear and all the other participants <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/bowdown.gif" border="0" alt="" > <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/bowdown.gif" border="0" alt="" > <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/bowdown.gif" border="0" alt="" > <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/bowdown.gif" border="0" alt="" > . Everyone's pictures were amazing!
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Tango · October 9, 2008

congrats everyone!

richtersl · October 9, 2008

Michael Atkins wrote:

WoW! I can't believe this actually happened! I am so honored to be in the company of such great photographers. Thank you to DGrin and SmugMug for keeping the challenges going. Thank you to all the people who keep these forums running. Giving us all a place to come, share and learn. Thank you to all the people who voted for my picture and participated in this challenge. Congratulations to Ratty2austin, peterst6906, mactoll, bch2300, jwear and all the other participants <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/bowdown.gif" border="0" alt="" > <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/bowdown.gif" border="0" alt="" > <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/bowdown.gif" border="0" alt="" > <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/bowdown.gif" border="0" alt="" > . Everyone's pictures were amazing!
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A special thanks to my wife Robyn and my daughter Ava for putting up with me and my photography! I love you both!<o:p></o:p>

Ya done good, Michael! <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/clap.gif" border="0" alt="" > It was an awesome shot!!!

Congrats to all the finalists!!!!

DoctorIt · October 9, 2008

I like that the winning shot wasn't a typical orange sunset

On a down note... only 141 voters.

idiom · October 9, 2008

Congrats Michael, and everybody who made top ten!

peterst6906 · October 9, 2008

Congratulations Michael. Totally different take on the theme to many images with it being much colder and it works beautifully.

Regards,

Peter

divamum · October 9, 2008

Congratulations to all!

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I'm still flying high that I was included in the finalists - amazing entries and I am beyond honoured to have been in such company!

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Thanks to dgrin and everybody involved for not only making this great opportunity within a great forum site available, but for being such a welcoming and encouraging community - I would never in a million years have considered submitting any entries if achambers and a couple of others hadn't gently prodded me into giving it a try.... and I'm so glad they did!

BRAVI TUTTI! (which translates from the Italian as "congratulations everybody" and is what is traditionally said in opera houses around the globe after a particularly good performance)