Hitchhiker Photo Contest Winners

JohnL · #1 12/18/2001, 07:58 PM

Drum roll please... The winners are:

1st place #128
http://www.reefcentral.com/hhpc/images/hh128.jpg

2nd place #45
http://www.reefcentral.com/hhpc/images/hh045.jpg

3rd place #31
http://www.reefcentral.com/hhpc/images/hh031.jpg

Congratulations to the winners. Please email me to arrange the delivery of your prizes.

Thanks to everyone who participated.

I hope everyone enjoyed the contest.

The contest forum is now open for everyone to view the submissions and post replies.

monkeyboy · #2 12/18/2001, 09:31 PM

God, those tunicates are awesome! (drool)

Awesome pictures all around!!!

MrSandman · #3 12/18/2001, 09:54 PM

Congrats!

JohnL, care to share the names of the winners with us?

Laura D · #4 12/18/2001, 09:55 PM

I am really glad to see these photos as winners, I had a hard time deciding between these ones in particular.

JohnL · #5 12/18/2001, 11:16 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MrSandman
JohnL, care to share the names of the winners with us?

Sure, as soon as they email me I'll know who they are

NaH2Ofreak · #6 12/18/2001, 11:22 PM

Wow!!!!! Those pics are VERY beautiful! Thankyou for sponsoring the contest and providing the forum!!!!!!

Dennis

Cakepro · #7 12/19/2001, 02:37 AM

Hey John ~

I took all those photos, so go ahead and send me all the prizes.

*Snicker*

Actually, I was wondering if you could give a count of how many votes each submission received.

~ Sherri ~

kaotica · #8 12/19/2001, 06:36 AM

Picture #31 is mine :-)
I wanted to thank everyone who voted for me!
I have this and many other pictures posted on my photopoint albums, but for some reason photopoint is not coming up right now :-(

All pictures were taken w/ a Nikon CoolPix 950
this particular one is just a macro w/ the normal lens, however some of the other pics use the wide angle.

If you like any of my pictures and would like to use them for personal or educational use, please let me know. If you would like to use them for commercial use, please let me know, as I do sell them as well.

JohnL · #9 12/19/2001, 05:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Cakepro
I was wondering if you could give a count of how many votes each submission received.

The counts are in the poll thread where the voting was done.

http://www.reefcentral.com/vbulletin...threadid=49624

LisaP · #10 12/20/2001, 05:31 AM

Hi all,

Wow!!! I am so over the moon that so many of you voted for my pic of the Basket Star. Thankyou all very much!

I am dead chuffed

I really enjoyed checking all the other hitchhikers out, it's just so cool what other people can find popping out from live rock etc. Goodies as well as baddies.

And just for a quick update..... It's been 5+ weeks now since I added the Sea Plume and discovered my little hitchhiking star. I am pleased to say that he's still with me and seems to be doing great. I feed him every night with a pipette, a sometimes frustrating procedure as the gorgonian sways about quite a bit in the current. Still I persevere till leg and food make contact

Finally thanks to JohnL for organising the contest. It's been great fun and I can't wait to see all the pictures submitted for the next contest

Happy Christmas.

Regards

joshlbs · #11 12/20/2001, 06:46 AM

I DEMAND a recount!

My clown was the ultimate hitchhiker!!

Actually,

if I didn't have my own to vote for, I would've vote for the darn star, too... hmph!
The fact that a Maroon Goldstripe Clown hitchhiked on a LR order of mine is worthy of commendation itself...

Anyway, congrats to all of you- and nice pics all around!

carolina98 · #12 12/20/2001, 07:56 AM

Congratulations to the winners, these are outstanding photos! Actually I think we're all winners... I mean look at all these awesome reefs!

Nathan, the photo of your anemone spawning is extraordinary. Thanks for sharing!

carolina98 · #13 12/20/2001, 08:03 AM

P.S. John, not sure if I did this correctly, but the forum where the pictures are posted, still won't allow me to reply to the individual thread. Could be I'm just not awake yet.

Theo · #14 12/20/2001, 08:15 AM

I didn't enter due to the location restrictions on the prize. Maybe we could come up with an idea that even folks up in Canada could participate in.
Good work everyone I really loved the tunicate photo altough all were a joy to look at.

Metaphase · #15 12/20/2001, 09:47 AM

Another vote for the Canadian participation! I'm sure there's lots of Canucks who have a lot to share...

lori344 · #16 12/20/2001, 11:44 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by JohnL
The contest forum is now open for everyone to view the submissions and post replies.

I'm confused

didn't work for me... I'd love to see the submissions and who posted them

EVERYONE who participated did a great job.
~lori

JohnL · #17 12/20/2001, 03:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by carolina98
P.S. John, not sure if I did this correctly, but the forum where the pictures are posted, still won't allow me to reply to the individual thread. Could be I'm just not awake yet.

I think I missed a setting. Can you try to reply now.

JohnL · #18 12/20/2001, 03:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Theo
I didn't enter due to the location restrictions on the prize. Maybe we could come up with an idea that even folks up in Canada could participate in.

Yes, even though 91% of our members are from the US, there are 4% from Canada, 1% from the United Kingdom and 1% from Australia. Future contests will ensure that all of our members qualify for the prizes.

Sorry about that. It was poor planning on my part.

JohnL · #19 12/20/2001, 03:57 PM

Can you try it again, Lori.

Quote:

Originally posted by lori344
I'm confused didn't work for me... I'd love to see the submissions and who posted them

carolina98 · #20 12/20/2001, 05:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by JohnL

Sorry about that. It was poor planning on my part.

Not hardly. I think you you did an awesome job! I don't believe I've seen a contest run any smoother. The International entries can only make a good thing even better, IMO.

Thanks John, for enabling us to see all these beautiful photos!
Sincerely,
Connie

lori344 · #21 12/20/2001, 05:20 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by JohnL
Can you try it again, Lori.

John, Can you help the handicap here? I can't get in... where do i go from here. Sorry to be such a pita... but I'm stumped and anxious

~lori

carolina98 · #22 12/20/2001, 05:28 PM

Lori, I'm not John but I had the same handicap

I just finally went back to the start page, where it lists all the forums, and then clicked on the Hitchhiker forum. It worked for me this time. I'll see if I can get the link...

connie

carolina98 · #23 12/20/2001, 05:32 PM

try this Lori:
http://www.reefcentral.com/vbulletin...hp?forumid=102

woops. I see that is the link you posted. Sorry. From that page I just clicked on each individual post. Guess I should leave this to the pro's.

lori344 · #24 12/20/2001, 05:43 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by carolina98
try this Lori:
http://www.reefcentral.com/vbulletin...hp?forumid=102

woops. I see that is the link you posted. Sorry. From that page I just clicked on each individual post. Guess I should leave this to the pro's.

Yes, that is the same link i posted above... was wondering where to go from there... my choices are a) the closed voting thread. b) the submission thread which only has a reply link (no visible submissions) and c) Nathans post of his anemone spawning (which btw... is very very cool

)

Thanks for trying connie, you're a jewel
~lori

edit:
I found the proplem connie

... in my preferences i have it set up to show threads from the last ten days only... so I changed it to "from the beginning" (bottom right of screen) and wella... it's there. Thanks again for your help.

JohnL · #25 12/20/2001, 06:01 PM

Lori, try logging out and back in.

http://www.reefcentral.com/vbulletin...?action=logout