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Voting Booth - May 2007 - Birds and Water (1 Viewer)

Choose your favourite photo - 'Birds and Water'

  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/142735/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]Riv

    Votes: 11 7.3%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/142727/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]Get

    Votes: 3 2.0%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/142628/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]Sna

    Votes: 6 4.0%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/142605/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]Spl

    Votes: 4 2.7%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/142444/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]rel

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/142387/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]Lon

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/142365/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]Ann

    Votes: 40 26.7%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/142349/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]BOO

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/141795/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]Rip

    Votes: 4 2.7%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/141716/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]The

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/141655/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]wal

    Votes: 2 1.3%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/141648/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]Cut

    Votes: 3 2.0%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/141595/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]Cho

    Votes: 5 3.3%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/141588/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]You

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/141505/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]Spl

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/141319/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc/lim

    Votes: 14 9.3%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/141251/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]Aus

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/141250/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]Rev

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/141173/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]gre

    Votes: 6 4.0%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/141071/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]Bla

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/140729/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]Mir

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/140495/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]and

    Votes: 4 2.7%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/140324/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]Bad

    Votes: 5 3.3%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/139948/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]Red

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/139937/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]Com

    Votes: 2 1.3%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/139855/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]Sat

    Votes: 2 1.3%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/139825/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]Pur

    Votes: 15 10.0%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/139780/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]Ann

    Votes: 4 2.7%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/139760/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]Bat

    Votes: 9 6.0%
  • [url=http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/139733/sortby/d/sorttime/9999/way/desc]Sta

    Votes: 3 2.0%

  • Total voters
    150
  • Poll closed .

IanF

Moderator
The theme for May 2007 was 'Water and Birds'

From the 65 entries we had this month 30 have been selected for the voting booth.

Please selected your favourite 'Birds and Water' photo.

Entries can be viewed as -

1. Thumbnails


Entries will remain in place until completion of voting after which they will be moved to their appropriate forums.
 
Vote cast! As usual, many excellent pictures out there! Great job and good luck everyone! :t:
Ian: sorry to bother you...I was trying to make a decision looking through the slideshow when I realized that my picture wasn't there. Then I repeated the slideshow a couple of times and actually I can only see 26 of 30 entries. No problems at all with the thumbnails view and the general list. I admit I would have never noticed this without having my photo as an entry.
Is it just me having this problem? :h?:
Thanks in advance for your help.
 
Vote cast, another tough decision. Many great entries again. Good luck to all!
 
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Ian: sorry to bother you...I was trying to make a decision looking through the slideshow when I realized that my picture wasn't there. Then I repeated the slideshow a couple of times and actually I can only see 26 of 30 entries. No problems at all with the thumbnails view and the general list. I admit I would have never noticed this without having my photo as an entry.
Is it just me having this problem? :h?:
Thanks in advance for your help.

We've been having problems with the slideshow since the last upgrade - I thought the problem was solved. I've redone the link and will keep an eye on it - it appears to be to do with the way the photos are sorted by the software.

**** UPDATE - I've removed the Slideshow option as it's still dropping entries where a new comment has bene added. *****
 
I have voted. I thought it would be hard but for me one stood out head and shoulders above the rest.

John
 
I love the competitions. Great shots serving as lessons on all kinds of practical photographic issues...

BTW, what happens to those pix that do not make it into the final show-down? Would/could the "panel of judges" add reason(s) to the comments section on why a pix did not make it through to the final round? It would be grand if one could scan through those to see what each lacked... another bunch of lessons, so to speak...
 
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BTW, what happens to those pix that do not make it into the final show-down? Would/could the "panel of judges" add reason(s) to the comments section on why a pix did not make it through to the final round? It would be grand if one could scan through those to see what each lacked... another bunch of lessons, so to speak...

Each entry not selected for the voting booth is moved to it's respecitive geographical forum. I'm afraid it would take too much time to add critique to each photo - the selection process is quite time consuming as it is. We're still looking at alternative methods as to how the competition voting takes place - it may change in the next month or two once some software issues are sorted out.
 
Any chance of putting the 'theme of the month' on the entry gallery so we know what we are voting for......or am I just nitpicking?
 
We've been having problems with the slideshow since the last upgrade - I thought the problem was solved. I've redone the link and will keep an eye on it - it appears to be to do with the way the photos are sorted by the software.

**** UPDATE - I've removed the Slideshow option as it's still dropping entries where a new comment has bene added. *****

Thanks Ian, sorry to hear that you are still having troubles with the new software. I hope you will find a way to fix it soon. ;)
This is slightly out of theme, but when I was uploading my entry for the contest, I actually ended up putting it in my own gallery, even if I was pressing the upload button in the monthly photo competition page. This had never happened to me, I think that before the update I was automatically adressed to the right section when uploading pictures for the competition. Anyway, I was looking forward to delete the first picture I sent (I am pretty sure that there was a small checkbox to do this in the edit section of each photo) but couldn't figure out how to. Is there any way to delete images once they are uploaded?
Thanks again for your help!!|:$|
 
Any chance of putting the 'theme of the month' on the entry gallery so we know what we are voting for......or am I just nitpicking?

Prior to the recent upgrade we had a link in the Gallery to the monthly competition forum. Work is ongoing on this and something may be in place shortly. I think it's turned out to be a bigger issue than originally anticipated.
 
Thanks Ian, sorry to hear that you are still having troubles with the new software. I hope you will find a way to fix it soon. ;)
This is slightly out of theme, but when I was uploading my entry for the contest, I actually ended up putting it in my own gallery, even if I was pressing the upload button in the monthly photo competition page. This had never happened to me, I think that before the update I was automatically adressed to the right section when uploading pictures for the competition. Anyway, I was looking forward to delete the first picture I sent (I am pretty sure that there was a small checkbox to do this in the edit section of each photo) but couldn't figure out how to. Is there any way to delete images once they are uploaded?
Thanks again for your help!!|:$|

I've noticed the uploads don't work the same way as the previous software version. It can be quite annoying at times. I find that if uploading more than one photo when the second upload page appears - everything has reset and has to be checked again. Likewise, peviously if you were in the competition forum and selected 'upload' the photo was uploaded direct to that forum - that doesn't occur now. Hopefully it's something that can be addressed.

Once uploaded only Admin or one of the Mods can delete a photo - however you can still edit/replace the photo with another one. A PM with the title of the photo or the url will get it deleted.
 
Once again the quality of Photos is outstanding,making a choice is very hard and I made mine on the basis that I have tried to capture a similar image and failed miserably.
 
Ian, I didn't get a full slide show of all the entry's consequently I voted out of the ones that were showing, there must have been at least 10 missing. I will stick with the one I picked but it was not the one I would have voted for if I had seen it.
 
I've noticed the uploads don't work the same way as the previous software version. It can be quite annoying at times. I find that if uploading more than one photo when the second upload page appears - everything has reset and has to be checked again. Likewise, peviously if you were in the competition forum and selected 'upload' the photo was uploaded direct to that forum - that doesn't occur now. Hopefully it's something that can be addressed.

Yes I noticed that problem too with multiple uploads. I thought it was my computer or maybe using Firefox instead of IE. Hope it can be fixed!

Once uploaded only Admin or one of the Mods can delete a photo - however you can still edit/replace the photo with another one. A PM with the title of the photo or the url will get it deleted.

Thanks for that, if I do something dumb again I will ask for help! ;)
 
Announcing the winners of the May 2007 competition

From the 65 entries we had this month 30 were selected for the Voting Booth.

150 votes in total were cast by members.

First place -

Marysan with Anna's Hummingbird which attracted 40 votes.

Second place -

Mybs with Purple Gallinule with 15 votes.

Third place -

Akihaka with Misty with 14 votes


Congratulations to everyone and to all those who entered and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their vote.

Entries will remain in place for a few days before being moved to their respective forums.

The proposed theme for June is 'Animal Kingdom' - details will follow in a few days.
 
Congratulations to a great winner. Mary, your photo was most excellent. All of the shots were very good and it was a difficult choice to make.
 
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