First of all, thank you all so much for entering our third Monthly Photo Contest "Post your best Black and White shot". Now that we have all grown grey hair, we have finally come up with the winners and our honorable mentions.

This contest was very successful. So many good entries it almost caused a judging nightmare! However, we persevered and have come up with our favorites, all things considered. Thank you all for being so patient, and I believe our next contest should yield faster judging results as we learned quite a bit from this contest.

A panel of three judges decided on our first, second, and third place winners, but we could not leave it there. We all decided that we should have three honorable mentions as well, simply because there were too many great shots here. Winners will be notified by email and prizes arranged accordingly, so we hope you have been paying attention! If a winner does not respond to our email for the prize in three days time, we will award the the next in line of judging and move the next winner up.

So without further ado, let's announce the winning contestants!

Thank you to all that entered our "snap" Independence Day fun Photo Contest, we'd like to congratulate ConfusedApollo for the win. This is ConfusedApollo's first post on our site, and what a great start!
Eric and Carl

First off we want to thank you for making our second contest an even more successful endeavor than our previous contest, Wildlife. Either the word is spreading, or "Your Best Landscape Shot" was a more popular pick for a contest theme. We had quite a few really excellent shots submitted here, and it was really nice to see so many shots from all over the world. Thank you all for entering and participating.

This time there will be a First, Second, and Third place winner with one Runner Up. First and Second place winners get $75 and $25 Amazon gift certificates respectively. All of the placing shots were picked on the basis of good exposure, degree of difficulty, composition, and overall pleasing quality. Please note that it was very difficult to choose the final winners overall.

So without further ado, lets announce the winners!

First Place- Goes to JahFtb, a very moody New Zealand sunrise taken with the A100, congratulations on the First Place Win!

And the winners are...

Let us start off by saying thank you to all of you who entered our first monthly contest! There were quite a few entries and some really nice photographs submitted. The winners were difficult to pick so we had to include some honorable mentions as well to show more of our favorites. First and second place shots were picked on the basis of good exposure, degree of difficulty, composition, and an overall pleasing quality of the shot.

First Place- Goes to Brian Murphy (ovlov) for this very difficult shot of a Ruby-throated Hummingbird captured with the A100. Congratulations Brian, you won a brand new Tokina 19-35mm f3.5 -4.5 lens!