Winning Photos

Thank you, for voting for my photo. I have been afraid to show my work, and just finally been brave enough to share it and enter into contest. I call this photo "Matthew 17:20" . I was going through a hard time and after I snapped this photo, that's the verse I was lead to read. All the glory belongs to The Lord, above. I would have never found my passion for photography, if I did not find Jesus. He opened my eyes up to see this beautiful world. This photo was taken with my Rebel T3i, 50mm f1.4 lens, taken in RAW format, processed in Lightroom 3. The location is; Rocky Mountain National Park, in Colorado. I have only been practicing photography for a little over a year. Hopefully, I will get my blog up and going soon! Sheena Waldron

Thanks so much Illona! This was a wonderful honor. I'm based in Boston, MA. This shot was taken with my ancient Nikon D70s with 50 mm. I love watching my two Heathens (Basenjis) play. It is almost entirely silent. Although Raisin will often make what I call her "Creature from the Black Lagoon" noise. Thanks again!

I would first like to thank all those who voted!! Seriously, THANK YOU!! My name is William Osborn, I took this with my Nikon D70 attached to a Nikon AF 80-200 (2.8)D lens. While i do a good amount of Photoshop editing on many of my photos, NOT ONE SINGLE PIXEL in this photo has been changed..this is exactly as I Shot It. I am happy to say that this sail boat DID survive Hurricane Sandy, regrettably the boat from which this photo was taken and the marina in Atlantic Highlands NJ from where we both sailed did not. Again, my Thanks to those who voted !!

First I have to say that I'm humble and proud that you liked my picture. It's really inspiring. Thank you so much for this honor :-) I also have to say that you have a magnificent web-site, a great source of inspiration. My name is Audun Wigen, and I live in Norway. I shot this photo just outside my bedroom window. I spotted this fly when I was out for the morning newspaper. It was sitting on this small white flower, covered with moist, not able to fly. Two hours after I shot this picture I went outside to look for the fly again. It was sitting on the same flower, still not able to fly. I used Canon 5d MK-II with MP-E 65mm. I used a ring-flash on the lens, and a 580ex flash mounted on a home-made bracket to give light from above. A home made difusser (made from an ice-box) was mounted on the 580 flash. My native language is norwegian, so my home page is not in english - sorry. But I'm working on a english version, so check back in a couple of days :-)

Thanks to those who voted for my photo! My two cats love to have mock battles with each other, through the glass of the door. This was one of those happy occasions when my Canon 5D was beside me and ready to shoot when I saw this cat spying on her cat sister, who was inside. Cat Ninja! (Converted to sepia in post processing).