***AND THE WINNER OF THE MAY PHOTO CONTEST IS........

[Schema Thing]

The contest theme was "CRAZY HEART(S)". And the winner is............. Mira!


FIRST PLACE goes to: Mira, for Still Crazy After All These Years


SECOND PLACE goes to: Saphire, for Lonely Hearts


and THIRD PLACE goes to: Robb, for Electricity



and Honorable Mention (just because I love this pic) goes to CC, for Daddy's Girl



Congratulations Mira! (great pic, it's exactly the sort of image I was hoping for when I came up with the contest theme)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Congrats to all the winners!

It was a very imaginative theme, my dear Schema Thing!

:toast:

[jotsy]

2. Congrats Mira, this shot has been my fave from the start.

Other shots pretty nifty too, nicely done all. What's on tap as a theme for next time?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Mira will decide, down the road aways...with our help perhaps...

My dear jotsy!:hi:

[jotsy]

7. Happy Monday to you, Miss Peg.

I ask cuz I'm chaperoning a choir field trip tomorrow to the beach, thought I'd take my camera and snap some spiffy stuff. If I do and they meet criteria, I shall then have to find someone to show me how to post 'em here.

:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. That sounds like fun!

By all means take your pictures!

I can help you, or anyone from the Photo Group can help you learn how to post them!

We post all the time; not just for contests...

:hug:

[jotsy]

9. I may hold you to that, thanks

But I gots to dance with the sand man here tonight first, I'm off and a romping early.

Seaside is a bit commercial and crowded, but the idea of fresh salty air and constant echo of waves crashing even if for just a day is sure to cure my cabin fever!

:fistbump:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Good night, and have fun tomorrow!

:hug:

[intheflow]

4. Congratulations, Mira!

I've loved that shot from the second you posted it. :)

[alfredo]

5. Great Job Mira!

Love the subjects, loved the composition, loved the B & W. The choice of desaturating took it out of time (timeless).

[Tindalos]

6. Congratulations Mira and winners

Good job everyone. CC's photo was one of my favourites too.


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[Tuvok Obama]

11. Congratulations to everyone. But Saphire, yours is

the most beautiful and sad image I can remember seeing. So bright and painful at once.

[sandnsea]

12. Congrats everyone! Great theme too n/t

[ConsAreLiars]

13. This has to be the most heart-filling, heart-hurting, heart-rendering, heart-healing set of images

ever in this forum. Not just the top four, but all the entries.

Those, mostly or all shot in the US and showing humans as truly human. The same love and kindness and compassion could be seen anywhere. Instead of more images and instances like this, the-powers-that-be bring the opposite.

A hearty THANK YOU to Schema Thing for inspiring so many contributors to submit such wonderful reminders of what it means and requires to be human.

Here is the whole set of submissions: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=280&topic_id=73502&mesg_id=73502 . Every one has something to say. But those voted to the top say it very clearly.

(edit to fix tiny typo)

[Celebration]

14. Great winners!!

The winner is so much fun and so spontaneous, and the other three do a great job of showing emotion.

Good job, everyone.

[Mz Pip]

15. congratulations Mira

Awesome photo! Have fun with the June contest!

:hi:

Mz Pip

[gleaner]

16. Thank you Mira ....

For such a joyous and life loving picture. It was exactly what we need right now.;)

[Cassandra]

17. Congratulations, Mira!!!

and all the winners. Wonderful images all!!!

[Mira]

18. Thank you all! So very much, I am honored.

It was a great theme, and thank you SchemaThing for a good suggestion and contest.

Congratulations to the other winners, finalists and participants.
My personal favorite way out front was Robb's "Electricity".
A poignant and moving photograph.

Enjoy the one I am attaching, took it a couple of days ago at the Cherry picking place in Virginia.

[Schema Thing]

19. "Love In a Place of Cholera"?

:7

[Sheepshank]

20. ok, that plunger is just nasty!

But on a better note, I adored you picture Mira and an so glad you get to host the nect contest :)

[Mira]

28. i just saw your comment, and looked again

at the plunger I had picked off the floor and positioned.
We do at times physically compose our photos, don't we, photographers?

The caked stuff on the plunger was mud, good old American soil.
Honestly.
Why?
No idea!
:rofl:

:)

[Lone_Star_Dem]

21. Congrats one and all!

They were all wonderful!

[truedelphi]

22. Congrats to all who made the final cut.

What a pleasant start of the week.

Thanks mira, CC, Robb and Saphire. Life seems brighter right now.

[Blue_In_AK]

23. Congratulations to the winners!

Lovely photos all.

[bigwillq]

24. Congrats to the winners!

:toast: :bounce:

I love the photo contests.

[EFerrari]

25. This was one of my favorite collections! Thank you!

:hi:

[Schema Thing]

26. keeeek

[CC]

27. Congrats Mira,

told ya so. :rofl::toast: (More in the group thread)

Also congrats Saphire & Robb both of your photos are beautiful and emotional. :toast::toast::toast: Congrats to all that entered, it was a theme that made one think and many think outside the box. We are all winners when we share of ourselves. :toast::toast::toast::toast:


Great job hosting Schema Thing, even when it looked like the rewrite of rules would overtake the whole group. Wonderful theme yet with enough leeway to have such a creative take on it. :yourock: Thank you for the honorable mention. I love it for a lot of reason including who is in it.