Saturday, August 15, 2009

Shiny ~ The Poll

Top Ten Choices....vote for your one favorite....

Lilly Pond ~ by Mia
 
 17

Raindrops on Roses ~ by Susan
 
 8

Shiny Trombone ~ by Nico
 
 31

Shining From Above ~ by Amalie
 
 4

Shiny Plane ~ by Danni
 
 12

Ice Mountain ~ by Sharon
 
 3

Shiny Textured Glass ~ by Jan
 
 5

Cruise Night Chrome and Shiny Paint ~ Sue
 
 5

Shiny Red Ride ~ Marianne
 
 4

Shiny Dinner Catch ~ Shinta
 
 6




I've been captivated looking at your entries this week.  Just as I hoped it would be the offerings were distinctly you....a unique and fascinating look at the world through your eyes.  It was fun to have shiny new ways of seeing common objects and situations.  As always it was nearly impossible to choose just ten.  There really wasn't a photo I didn't think fit the theme perfectly.  Thank you all for taking the time from your busy lives to contribute to making this last week of Summer Foto Friday Competition a huge success.

After a good night's sleep I finally was able to narrow the field down to just ten final choices.

As always in no particular order.....


1. Lilly Pond ~ by Mia

2. Raindrops on Roses ~ by Susan

3. Shiny Trombone ~ by Nico

4. Shining From Above ~ by Amalie

5. Shiny Plane ~ by Danni

6. Ice Mountain ~ by Sharon

7.  Shiny Textured Glass ~ by Jan

8. Cruise Night Chrome and Shiny Paint ~ Sue Z

9. Shiny Red Ride ~ Marianne

10. Shiny Dinner Catch ~ Shinta










Keeping our cameras ready to capture a lifetime of shiny moments
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Ten honorable Mentions

1. Joanne

2. Coooool

3. Dixie

4. Randall

5. Annette

6. LadyKatya

7. Arielle

8. Suzy

9. Tess

10. Ted



53 comments:

  1. Finally up....thanks for your patience. I was on the road all day yesterday and not able to get to a computer until this morning.

    Cherie

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  2. Congratulations to all theTop Ten finalists and also the HM's, an amazing array of shiny shots!!!

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  3. oh this was nice! congrats to everyone on both lists! i'm looking forward to have a closer look at these images.

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  4. Congratulations to ALL!! ... time to vote... ~vroom~

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  5. Now see....out of the Top Ten four of them are my friends. I told you all you take amazing photos. Well done group. I shall be hoping for one of you to win this final competition.

    Congratulations to everyone. There were some amazing shots this week.

    Thanks Cherie for hosting.

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  6. What a great online network we have, Ronnie! Thank you for your nice wishes!

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  7. Congratulations to all! Thank you so much for the HM! There are so many wonderful shots out there, I don't know how you ever can choose!

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  8. All such great shots, I think they all need to be in first!

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  9. always get excited to see the top ten.... now I need to revisit them and figure out how to vote for all of them!

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  10. It looks like a close race this week!!!

    Cherie

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  11. Thank you Cherie for hosting this great contest and adding me this morning so I could vote and I just did. Not on myself of course :). All pics are very beautiful and I hereby invite all participants to connect to me. Greetings from Holland, Jan

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  12. Thanks Cherie for your visit, comment, and being our host this week. What a difficulty to choose!

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  13. Many were very cool but my very favorite is the trombone. That is an awesome shot!!

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  14. I am sorry guys I was not much of a player this week
    I seen as much as i could even though I did not comment on all

    congratulation to all the top ten
    and the HM
    and thanks for the Honor

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  15. A great selection once again!
    Thanks for a fun six weeks!

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  16. Congratulations to all the top ten. It was tough to choose from all those great photos.

    Thank you Fotofriday judges for choosing my photo as an honorable mention. I am honored. Congratulations to all the other honorable mentions.

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  17. Thank you very much for being the host. Congratulations and Good luck to all.

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  18. congratulations everyone...good job!
    thanks for the HM, appreciate it.
    to cherie & the admins...thanks for hosting!

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  19. Great choices for the Top Ten!! Congrats to all of you, as well as to the HMs! Thanks for choosing mine for an H.M. :-)

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  20. Can I asked what happened to Suzy picture?

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  21. What a wonderful display of photography. Everyone had wonderful shots. Congrats to the top ten. All are great shots. It truly inspired me to join this week. I will be looking forward to seeing more of your awesome shots in the future. This is what the art of Photography is really all about. Bringing someone along for the ride through your eyes. Then sharing the feeling with in the photo. Thank you for the HM. It inspirational for me. I do so much with the camera and it is always fun when I am inspired to take it somewhere else. Please add me as a friend and I will add you so I can keep up with your views. Thanks also to Cherie for being the host for #6.

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  22. Shiny kisses to all selected!! Well done!

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  23. I checked again and it says open to all....and I see the photo. I'm not sure why you can't see it.

    cherie

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  24. Regardless of the outcome Cherie all the above are winners in many ways. But a big congrads to all of them - some just enjoy the pictures and some do love the enjoyable fun with placing something in and seeing what the outcome is.
    The all do shine! Certainly from what I have seen...

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  25. All fantasic! Congrats to all /:-)

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  26. idk, just shows the story behind it here.

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  27. These are some of the best entries I have ever seen. So hard to make a choice!

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  28. Thanks so much for the honorable mention....so sweet of you, it is greatly appreciated........and thanks to all who stop by my page to see what I see through the lens.... hugs..

    congrads to all of the top ten entries and the honorable mentions... such great company to be in....

    now to vote...so many beautiful pictures....

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  29. Congratulations to all the winners and the honorable mentions. Just got back into town, briefly went to each page but no time for comments and voted.

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  30. Thanks so much for chosing my Pond Image for the Top Ten Cherie. What a lovely surprise!
    Such a fantastic theme and so many wonderful entries. Congrats to the other Top Ten and HM's, well done all!

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  31. wow.... congrats in advance to the winner

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  32. Congratulation everyone! All the best!

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  33. I cannot believe I was so busy today I almost forgot to vote!!! But I finally made it ! Hurray! LOL Congratulations everyone it was an awesome week of pictures!

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  34. fantastic photos everyone...I really enjoyed seeing so many cool photographs...Congrats one and all

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  35. congradulations to all couldn't get to all the pics had connection problems but will look this weekend-

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  36. I love coming in to see the poles and what everyone posted under the weeks theme. There are some stunning shots out there and you must have hard a really hard time with the selections! :-)

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  37. Woohoo! Thanks for choosing my shot for top ten, I'm honored..and in good company. Congrats to all!

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  38. congratulations to all top 10s ! Magnificent photographs !

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  39. Congrats to all the top 10, they are amazing shot.....!

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  40. Congratulations to all the top 10.... super shots!

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  41. Thank you kindly for the honorable mention! I Saw Some Fantastic Work from everyone!

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  42. congrats to top ten and honorable mention!!! am going to abstain from voting because two of my closest friends, Mia and Nico are both on the top ten. me no want to play favorite. i love both of them.

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  43. He he Mj, you are just waiting to see who will bribe you first lol

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  44. hihihi!!! what's yer bribe? nico's going to buy me a yacht!!! ^^

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  45. Way to go Nico ...... Mia, you are hot on his heels !
    Best of luck to you both !

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  46. He he, Gerbie will beat any yacht n'est ce pas?

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  47. ehrmmm... i will think about that.

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  48. Yep I can read the moving story and her discription of the photo - but not a hint of a photo!!!!
    Possiblily just the medium used to host it! Unusal there is not a box with a cross but it seems to be just a few of us deprived of this one!!!!!

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  49. Glad the trombone won. It was an excellent picture.

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  50. my apologies to those that couldn't see my photo - there isn't a medium used to host it. the photo itself is uploaded directly. the original blog is posted:

    http://sweetferd.multiply.com/journal/item/23/picture_perfect_together

    immediately after posting, i walked out the door and headed to the mountains again. i've just returned so i was unable to do anything more than post and run.

    my thanks for those that were able to see their shining love.

    their story continued last year when colleen returned to the retreat. the story of her return:

    http://sweetferd.multiply.com/journal/item/322/endings_and_beginnings

    this year, she didn't come. there wasn't a reason any more.

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