Final Vote - March Photo Competition

[shuggee]

Welcome to the voting to select the best photo of March 2007. We're down to six finalists - thanks to all those who voted in the first round.

So, as always, there can be only one winner

This competition was for photos taken during March. The winning shot will form part of the 2008 netweather.tv Calendar.

Voting will end at 12 noon Wednesday 2nd May.

Voting on the April 2007 Photo Comp will then begin a few days later

Voting is as simple as simply clicking in the poll for your favourite picture. These are the photos that made it through to the final round (in reverse alphabetical order):

WIBS

OSBOURNE ONE-NIL

KELLY F

ESSAN

DESPERATELY SEEKING

BLACKIE

[multi cellular thunderstorm]

Got to be desperatly seeking for me, amazing capture!

And is that a mistake or are Wibs and OON going out together now?

[John Cox]

Desperately Seeking for me too.

A once in a lifetime chance photo that worked so well.

Love the others too.

[Osbourne One-Nil]

And is that a mistake or are Wibs and OON going out together now?

Don't be stupid...we're just both members of the same rambling/train spotting/bird watching/bell ringing club. Actually, the thought of a bell-ringing club brings tears to my eyes.

[Blackie]

DS for me too. In two words - simply stunning.

Still, nice to make the final vote. And well done everyone else on excellent photos.

[rixxxgolf]

DS ftw!!!!

(DS For the win)

(OWL PICTURE)

lol.

[frogesque]

Desperately Seeking.

Photo is a world beater. Absolutely stunning!

[Soaring Hawk]

An impressive standard as usual. However, DS for me too. An amazing photo.

[Stuart]

i have Voted for wibs

[Hurricane Debby]

Very, very difficult to choose but has to be DS for me. What an amazing picture.

[Tractor]

I love b&w photo's, so it is Osbourne for me :lol:

[Somerset Squall]

Wibs picture almost had my vote but it was just picked to the post by Desperately Seeking's brillaint photo of the owl.

Well done everyone else though, beautiful pictures.

[Osbourne One-Nil]

Wibs picture almost had my vote

And what is wrong with my photo of exactly the same view?

You're going on pre-mod.

[M'Lady]

I didn't vote for either OON or Wibs... too difficult to choose between the two pictures.

(Please don't put me on pre-mod.)

Kelly's picture is fab and so is Blackie's... and DS's shot is simply amazing... but none of them say 'March' to me.

Which leaves... Essan.

[desperately seeking]

I didn't vote for either OON or Wibs... too difficult to choose between the two pictures.

(Please don't put me on pre-mod.)

Kelly's picture is fab and so is Blackie's... and DS's shot is simply amazing... but none of them say 'March' to me.

Which leaves... Essan.

But the owl was saying "March" - honest! It's why her beak is open!

DS

[M'Lady]

But the owl was saying "March" - honest! It's why her beak is open!

DS

Good grief... is there no end to your talents? Ventriloquism and photograpy... I'm impressed!

I suspect you don't really need my vote anyway DS... looks like it's going to be a runaway win for you!

[flagpole]

DS, did you take that photo at a bird of prey centre?

He said so when he posted them, amazing isn't it?

http://www.netweather.tv/forum/index.php?s...st&p=958359

[stormchaser1]

Has to be DS for me

Well done to everyone

nigel

[desperately seeking]

DS, did you take that photo at a bird of prey centre?

Strictly speaking it wasn't at a centre. I was on holiday with these guys based near Aviemore. They're very friendly with a falconer (lives in the same valley with them - beeyootiful place) and he provides the birds for the birds of prey photography weekend I was on.

I recommend it to everyone but you do need some half decent kit though - one guy turned up with a Nikon and a 75-300mm "kit" lens and really struggled to keep up. Most of the guys had top notch pro kit. I was a sort of halfway house - no Canon "L" lenses but more than the basic stuff though. It certainly helped me!

BTW - I'm loving this voting; isn't democracy pretty?!

DS

[Osbourne One-Nil]

Cheating's better. I'm going to win!

[desperately seeking]

Very nice! Are these photography courses very good?

I enjoyed it - it's run by a professional wildlife snapper (Pete Cairns) and his wife. They're extremely friendly and very helpful. They coach you if you need it. The guy I mentioned with "low end" equipment got a lot of help and in the end even he got some good shots.

Pete will even lend you his "L" lenses (if you're a Canon-ite). I got to use a 300 f2.8 while I was shooting a tawny owl; it made me want to spend lots of money that I don't have.

If you're a keen snapper and want to shoot wildlife I say go for it. I didn't think I was going to get anything worth boasting about but a couple turned out nice!

DS

[Andy H]

Fantastic Picture DS B) gets my vote

[shuggee]

WIBS 4 [8.00%]

OSBOURNE ONE-NIL 10 [20.00%]

KELLY F 5 [10.00%]

ESSAN 3 [6.00%]

DESPERATELY SEEKING 27 [54.00%]

BLACKIE 1 2.00%

Well done to DS for a stunning win! B)

And thanks to everyone that entered

[desperately seeking]

Thanks for re-opening this Shuggee - glad I could be of help finding a bug!

Anyway - I wanted to thank those who voted for me; it's the first time anything I've snapped has won anything so I was really chuffed to finish on top.

I hope I can enter some more comps in the future - it's going to be hard during the summer though as my cricket team's fixture list takes precedence, but I'll try to be more weather orientated in the future.

Blackie - thanks for your comments - you've managed to convince me to enter a couple of pics in the countryfile photography contest (even if the Snowy Owl isn't actually a British bird it was shot in Scotland so I suppose it qualifies)!

Thanks again ya'll and especially to Shuggee for listening to my whinges!

DS