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David_S85 · March 9, 2006

Theme was Rough. Here are your ten finalists:

Ruff Day by 4labs

My Hands by Andyman

Rough Draft by dancinkate

Rough and Anti-Rough by Flyinggina

Rough Housing by MTag

Starboard~Stone by Ovis

Ruff Stuff by pathfinder

Ruff'n It by queequeg

Rough...Multiple Ways by shatch

Rough Condition by wholenewlight

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DoctorIt · March 9, 2006

great set - good work to the entrants and judges.

'bout time too...

:hide

nyblondie · March 9, 2006

vote
just joined and looking to vote

dkoyanagi · March 9, 2006

Great entries for this challenge. Good luck everybody!

Netgarden · March 10, 2006

nyblondie wrote:

just joined and looking to vote

Welcome Blondie!

Wonderful photos everyone. Really hard to choose....AGAIN!

Stef · March 10, 2006

Decisions Decisions.... this is a tough one... they are all great!

ultravox · March 10, 2006

My vote...
And my vote goes to ... All.

Great shots.

robinsphotos · March 10, 2006

Voting
Wow...Awesome pictures...This is my first time voting, do the rules let us vote for all?!!

Congrats to all the finalists...and good luck.

Tessa HD · March 10, 2006

Congrats to the top 10!
I really had a hard time choosing with this one - such excellent entries!!!

Tessa

Scott_Quier · March 10, 2006

This was a tough vote. How to choose???

Therer were so many very, very excellent photos

from which to choose "my favorite."

Somehow I managed to do so. The only sadness on my part is there were so many entries that did not make it into the final ten (and my favorite didn't make it).

ginger_55 · March 10, 2006

Scott_Quier wrote:

This was a tough vote. How to choose??? Therer were so many very, very excellent photos from which to choose "my favorite."

Somehow I managed to do so. The only sadness on my part is there were so many entries that did not make it into the final ten (and my favorite didn't make it).

Scott, I can't ask, etc, but I would be just dying to know which one you were hoping would be there. I guess this way, I can figure all of them. For one reason and another, mostly because 10 is a definite number, no flexibility there, many of my favorites did not make it, too.

However, I can't resist pointing out that if your fave had been there, you could have voted "easily" and missed out on the agony of looking at the "other" great shots, and having to pick one.

ginger:):

ChrisJ · March 10, 2006

ginger_55 wrote:

many of my favorites did not make it, too.
ginger:):

Hey Ginger, didn't you get to help pick these since you won Ch.58? Maybe you just had too many favorites!

Definitely good entries... there were a couple that stood out to me as feeling really "rough".

David_S85 · March 10, 2006

ChrisJ wrote:

Hey Ginger, didn't you get to help pick these since you won Ch.58? Maybe you just had too many favorites!
Definitely good entries... there were a couple that stood out to me as feeling really "rough".

First of all, my congrats to you ten in this final round; and to all who made time to find, shoot, and prepare an entry. Everyone wins our respect for going through that effort.

Now, to answer your question Chris, and everyone else who's wondering about the magic goings on behind the challenge scenes. It's a 2-person team effort to choose those ten finalists. One moderator to administer, along with the previous challenge winner.

It looks easy to pick those ten, doesn't it? But there's quite a bit more to the process. Those two people must navigate the avalanche of fantastic entries, experience every emotion while sorting through the photos, lose nearly three nights of sleep, deal with endless interruptions while carefully staring at, and making copious notes along the way of every entry printed up each at 24 x 16 inch, push-pinned onto a gigantic and properly lit wall (you should see that wall - what a sight!), and then endure the eternal knowledge that there will unfortunately be only ten finalists. It's enough to grey my already grey hairs even more.

There are always more than ten that really deserve to be there. Lots more. But ten is the rulz.

I won't even go into the horrid detail on what it takes to finalize a decision for an upcoming challenge theme. I'm still on doctor-prescribed medication from the nervousness caused by selecting the "Colors Two" theme a few weeks ago. :twitch

Dirgeelucidatr · March 11, 2006

It seems like this site doesn't welcome newcomers. However, Good luck to all finalists.

Shay Stephens · March 11, 2006

Things are not always what they seem

Newcomers are very welcome here. Did you not get enough welcomes when you started posting? If so, then I get to be one of the first to say welcome

That will be $5.65, please pull around to the first window...

Dirgeelucidatr wrote:

It seems like this site doesn't welcome newcomers. However, Good luck to all finalists.

Ovis · March 11, 2006

Dirgeelucidatr wrote:

It seems like this site doesn't welcome newcomers. However, Good luck to all finalists.

What makes you say this?

Thusie · March 11, 2006

What a tough challenge to judge! My hats off to the folks who had to make the choices!

I'm lucky, sort of, that two of my favs made it in, but then I had to choose between the two

dancinkate · March 11, 2006

Dirgeelucidatr wrote:

It seems like this site doesn't welcome newcomers. However, Good luck to all finalists.

I'm sorry you feel that way. I personally think the opposite! I won the first challenge I entered and the mods AND members have been overwhelmingly welcoming to me. I think it's a great community.

Rant aside, there are some gorgeous shots in the finals.....I had a hard time choosing!

DavidTO · March 11, 2006

Dirgeelucidatr wrote:

It seems like this site doesn't welcome newcomers. However, Good luck to all finalists.

I like your entry. I'm not a judge, but I would hazard a guess that it didn't say "rough" to them. Beautiful shot, though.

Oh, and.....Welcome!

Andy · March 11, 2006

Dirgeelucidatr wrote:

It seems like this site doesn't welcome newcomers. However, Good luck to all finalists.

I guess all the nice feedback in this thread

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=29248

wasn't enough for you? Dirgee, you're 1000% wrong. Go take a read in the delurking post, and there are a gajillion welcome posts here on dgrin. I don't think you'll find a friendlier lot on the planet. But, you can try

http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial_s&hl=en&q=site%3Awww.dgrin.com+welcome+to+dgrin&btnG=Google+Search

snapapple · March 11, 2006

Andy wrote:

I guess all the nice feedback in this thread

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=29248

wasn't enough for you? Dirgee, you're 1000% wrong. Go take a read in the delurking post, and there are a gajillion welcome posts here on dgrin. I don't think you'll find a friendlier lot on the planet. But, you can try

http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial_s&hl=en&q=site%3Awww.dgrin.com+welcome+to+dgrin&btnG=Google+Search

Wow! I just clicked on that Google link. 33,900 references of "welcome to dgrin".

And dgrin hasn't even been around that long, but I know it's been growing fast. I feel like I've been around since the beginning. I had a Smugmug site before joining dgrin. I think I found Smugmug by clicking on Andy's site from a post on a camera review site. Then Smugmug gave me a link to dgrin. And the rest is history.....

Now my husband calls me an addict.

I peek in on dgrin at work.

I carry my camera everywhere. I spend hours reading photoshop books and processing images on my computer. I even made him buy the full Adobe Creative Suite. I don't know what I would do without the help of dgrinners on creating and maintaining my site. Yes indeed, dgrinners are the friendliest people around. Welcome to dgrin:D, please look around the site and make your presence known. Post, post, post. Be a friend and you will find more friends than you ever thought possible.

And back to the challenge:): Wow! So many entries this time. Must have been a killer to narrow it down to 10. Lots of great entries and plenty of new people joining in. I'm still trying to figure out which is my favorite in order to vote. But, I WILL vote to be sure. And then I have to get busy and photograph some FOOD.

It's cold and rainy out today. I think I'll bake some cookies. Mmmmmmm :eat

Scott_Quier · March 11, 2006

ginger_55 wrote:

However, I can't resist pointing out that if your fave had been there, you could have voted "easily" and missed out on the agony of looking at the "other" great shots, and having to pick one.

ginger:):

And sweet agony it was. I even enlisted the help of my wife as a sounding board for my thoughts.

David_S85 · March 13, 2006

We have a winner!
Congrats, Andyman!

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