May 2006 Photo Competition VOTES

Well I suppose someone has to be first to make the very difficult descision.

1. Paladin's "Bloom With a View" - A really superb piece of photography as well as fitting the brief perfectly.

2. Fran's "Ducks". Wild indeed, and an example of being in the right place at just the right time and spotting the opportunity.

3. Marge's "Fungi". A perfectly natural and "wild" framing of one of nature's most interesting organisms. I could smell them!

Loads of other brilliant photos submitted this month. It was a really good subject and I found it quite hard to choose "winners".

 

1. Nik's Blue Tits. Really special photo that shows us something that we cannot see for ourselves.
2. Marge's Orchids. Good group, well lit, sharp focus
3. Nathan's Scot's Pine. Crisp and clear and a subject that most of us would not think to take

I might have included Paladins's three-cornered leeks if the horizon had been straight - sorry mate! Otherwise, it is an excellent shot of a wild plant in its environment.

Quality of entries is staggeringly good. Does GC have an archive? We could begin to compile a superb photo-library of pictures such as these.

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1. Roders - Hole in fence. The framing was great and I love cow parsley.
2. Hornbeam - Gentian. One of my favourite flowers - achingly beautiful.
3. Marge - Wild Orchids. It's always difficult to choose between Marge's pictures - they're always excellent but this one did it for me...

Great pictures again this month.

 

1. Dave W ........ Mull of Kintyre
2. Nik ........ Blue Tits
3. Marley ........ Redwoods
Excellent photos again gets better and better

 

1. Strongylodon - Charlborough Park
2. Liz - Bluebells at Longleat
3. Marley Farley - Wild Garlic

Also liked Pete's Graft on a Weeping Willow

 

1. Hole in the fence by roders

2. Redwoods by Marley Farley

3. View without a room by strongylodon

 

1.roders. Woodland in the Lakes.

2.Nik. Nestlings.

3.Marley. Wild Garlic.

 

1 - Greenwizards Dragonfly- fantastic colours and good photo
2 - Paladin Bloom with a view- very well constructed photo
3 - Niks Blue Tits truly wild and wonderful

 

Very hard to choose the winners indeed!

1 Marley Farley's 3rd entry 'redwood' - It's truely wild and wondeful :D

2 Marge's 3 entry 'red fungi' - I just fell in love with it as soon as I saw it. It's like something out of a fairyland!

3 Hornbeam ' Spring Gentian' - the colour is just so wonderful!

 

1st Marges...Red fungi(avatar)lovely colour,cracking picture...

2nd Nicks Eucalyptus Flower..Looks good enough to eat..

3rd Paladins Bloom with a view.. Magic..

That was so difficult.Well done EVERYBODY....

 

1st Fran 'Broads'
Love the clear reflection almost like a mirror.

2nd Dave W 'Leave only footprints'

3rd Nik's 'Nestlings'


To repeat what everybody has already said, it was a very difficult decision as so many were really good.

 

1st Marley farley Blue bells
2nd - nik blue tits
3rd webmaster euculyptus

 

Difficult again this month - but for me:

1. Marley Farley's redwoods -

2. Nathan's scots pine

3. Paladins Bloom with a view

I loved Marge's fungi, Roder's Lake District and Dave W Seascape too, then there was Pete's natural graft and ........ they were all very good again this month.

 

1st - Paladin, Bloom with a view - Fantastic photo
2nd - Nik, Great Tits - Truly wild and so wonderful
3rd - Fran, Ducks on the Broads - Magical pic

Really stiff competition this month, gets harder every time.