Orchidgeeks "Hall of Fame"

[Bird Song Farm]

Congratulations to all the winners and to all who entered. Each and every entry deserves an award for trying! It's through practice and comparison that we learn.
Al

[NancyG]

Good job everyone!

Alot of great photos this month.

NancyG

[Tobi]

Congrats to all winners. Beautiful pics of some awesome orchids.

[BunnytheOrchid]

Awww the honorable mention banner is so cute! Congrats everyone!

[patticake]

Congratulations to all!! I think this is the best batch yet!

[articuno75]

I want to say thank you for picking mine as a winner. I just noticed it.

[pitik101]

WOW...thank you for the recognition...and not just one... Congratulations to the other winners as well.

for the secret judge...thanks for appreciating the efforts made in the subject.

[fred]

orchidgeeks "Hall Of Fame" for April

Well the results are in from the Secret Judge's.
I have been told that the April contest was one of the hardest months to Judge because of the Quality of the Images.

To all the members who entered in the April Comp a Big Well Done as all the pics are outstanding.


Here are the April winners.

The Best Photo for the Novice -- cupcake for -- Phal Flarespots




The Best Photo for the Intermediate -- JLu for -- Cattleya mossiae



Also a Honourable Mention in the Intermediate -- Orchidflowerchild -- for Lc Schilleriana




The Best Photo for the Open -- jim blanford -- for -- Paph lowii




The Best Photo for the Species -- Andrew -- for -- Corybas diemenicus




The Best Photo for the Floral Art -- Jirel -- for-- NOID dend's on the table




Congrats to all who entered the comp and Congrats the all the winners of the April Photo Comp.

Its wonderful to see so many awesome pics posted.

Also a big thank you to the Secret Judges for the hard work, not an easy task with so many pictures like we have posted.

Here is the link to see bigger Images
April Photography Contest

[Tobi]

Congratulations to all the winners. In my book, every entry was a winner. They were
all suburb and I would have found it very difficult to pick one from all the great pictures.

[articuno75]

Excellent! Well Done! Awesome!!!

Congrats to all the winners and a good job well done to all the entries. Look forward to the pics for this month !!!

[kid a]

Yay, good job guys!

[tizzycat]

Congratulations to all. It must have been a hard task for the secret judge to pick winners for this month as all were great.

[PhalPal]

Congratulations Everyone of you!! The pictures are beautiful as well as the flowers.

[Jirel]

Wow! Thank you guys. I really didn't expect to win any of the categories. I want you to know that I did not arrange the dends, they just wound up being that way.

[fred]

Jirel
the judges thought that was the winner of the floral art so credit goes to you
even the floral art was a hard one to judge for April so I was told.

I just might have to think about a second place awards as well.

hmmmm I with put that into the think tank.

congrats on the award

[patticake]

Beautiful! Great choices! I especially love cupcakes Phal.

[pikevi]

Congratulations to all winners.

Beautiful entries.

One of these days I am going to try my hand in the competition too

[Tobi]

Originally Posted by pikevi

Congratulations to all winners.

Beautiful entries.

One of these days I am going to try my hand in the competition too

Well son of a gun. I thought you had fallen off the face of the earth. Where
have you been hiding and great to see you're alive and kicking!!

[sandra]

Congratulations everyone! All beautiful photos, including the non winning ones!

[Sharyn]

Congrats to all! This month's competition was great. Wonderful pics.

p.s. Welcome back pikevi, where ya been?

[pikevi]

Tobi: It is not that easy to get rid of me!!!. You should have had a clue when you found out that I like Dracula (s and) vampira(es). I am a sojourner

sharyn: I was alive but uncharacteristically very insensitive. I am sorry.

[cupcake]

OH MY! I haven't been around for a while, and I was absolutely GOBSMACKED! Thank you SO much, I've never won anything before! And congratulations to all the other winners! I shall try and emulate you!

[Bird Song Farm]

Cupcake, your award was well deserved!
Very nice shot.
AL

[exasperatus2002]

Congratulations everyone.

[jim blanford]

Thanks for all the nice complements, and congratulations to all winners.

[tizzycat]

Fabulous pictures, congratulations to all.

[solay]

Great job and congratulations to all the winners! I think I'll need some photo classes. Everyone took such wonderful pictures.

[OnicheK]

Hello, there!

Great jobs with the photos! You're all very talented in this field as well!
Can newbies send photos as well? And if it's possible, where should I send it?

Regards,

O.

[patticake]

Originally Posted by cupcake

OH MY! I haven't been around for a while, and I was absolutely GOB SMACKED! Thank you SO much, I've never won anything before! And congratulations to all the other winners! I shall try and emulate you!

Cupcake,- You totally deserved it!! What a great photo!!! I love the photo!!! Gob smacked!!! That says it all!!

[Sharyn]

Originally Posted by pikevi

Tobi: It is not that easy to get rid of me!!!. You should have had a clue when you found out that I like Dracula (s and) vampira(es). I am a sojourner

sharyn: I was alive but uncharacteristically very insensitive. I am sorry.

pikevi: I knew you were alive. therefore my belief in the Dracula theory................

Great pictures from all and congratulations! Cupcake, you made my day looking at your lovely phal against the rain spattered window..........reminded me of home. Reminded me of home almost every day - for the last two months!

[fred]

Hello my fellow Geeks

Here are the Hall Of Fame Entries for the May Photography Contest


The Best Photo for the Novice is Orchidementia

Burr Stefan Isler 'Dos Pinhos'




The Best Photo for the Intermediate is ALJ

Lc. Mini Purple 'Candy Tuft'




The Best Photo for the Open is PeterT

Dendrobium Scheherazade




The Best Photo for the Species is PeterT

Bulbophyllum blumei




The Best Photo for the Floral Art is exasperatus2002




I would also like to add that the May comp was one of the hardest months to Judge as the detail and quality of the photos are out standing.
Congratulations to the Winners of each class and congratulations to each member for there wonderful photos.

I would also like to thank the Secret Judge's for his/her out standing efforts with Judging the May Competition.


thank you and Congratulations

If you would like to see the bigger pics please see the link.

May Photography Contest

[patticake]

Beautiful!! Excellent choices!!

[Tobi]

Congratulations to all. Excellent pics!!

[pikevi]

Congratulations to all winners. Well deserved trophies.

[articuno75]

Awesome pics from this month. Congrats to the winners

[kmarch]

I've been a member of the forum for something like a year and 3 or 4 months and I was already a member when the photo competitions started. The improvement over that period of time has been quite substantial.

One thing I would like to point out, and that I think is quite important is that I have noticed that many of the photo comp winners these days are people who have learned and improved with us over these many months, not many of the winners are folks who have come in as excellent photographers, a few are but not many.

My hope is that this would encourage new people to enter the competition and start growng and improving along with the rest of us. You'll notice that we are mostly amature photographers, many of us armed only with our vacation-variety point and shoot digital cameras, and that we represent skill levels from "what's a shutter button" all the way up.

My point is that no matter what your skill level, no matter what your confidence level, there's a place for you in the monthly photo comp. There aren't any super egos raging around or super-critical comments. It's all quite a positive, nurturing, and enjoyable time.

And besides...if you've been a member for more than a week or so you've undoubtedly seen how hungry we all are to see pictures of everyone's orchid successes! Most of us get a lot of joy out of seeing what everyone else is growing. It's a treat! And what better way to share your success than by entering the photo comp?

It's spring in the Northern Hemisphere and Autumn in the Southern so there are probably TONS (or TONNES for my Australian friends) of orchids that are or should be coming in bloom just now. So lets get those cameras going!

Cheers!

[Bird Song Farm]

Congratulations to all! Can't wait for June's entries. This forum is "eye-candy" for everyone.
AL

[Orchidementia]

Thank you, Secret Judges and contributors to the "Photography 101" threads! What a surprise and, yes, an honor. Thank you!

[exasperatus2002]

Congratulations everyone! I didnt think I'd win since theres so many great photos taken by everyone.

[OnicheK]

Hey there!

Any news about June's results? Fred?

[kmarch]

The results are coming soon. They have been unavoidably delayed this month. Thanks for your patience everyone and stay tuned!

[fred]

Hi Members
Due to me having Dial up forgive me for being a little slow.

here are the winners of the June Photo Comp..

The Best Photo For the Novice..... Pollination by Orchidementia




The Best Photo For the Intermediate.... DenKuniko by Onichek




The Best Photo For the Open.... Green Cym by iandaniel





The Best Photo For the Species.... Angraecum didieri by Peter T




The Best Photo For the Floral Art.... nenella




The Best Photo For the Special Effects.... P. amabilis spotlighted and framed with photoshop by Bird Song Farm




I would like to Congratulate the winners of each Category and to all the Entrants of the June Comp.

A special thank you goes to our Secret Judge and helpers who made this months Comp easy for me..

[exasperatus2002]

Congratulations everyone!

[Bird Song Farm]

A big thank you to the secret judge and helpers! I'm astonished, with so many great entries, that I won.
Fred, so it's dial up that makes you slow huh? I'm gong to use that!
AL from Bird Song Farm

[NancyG]

Fred,

I'm sure it is just some glich but I don't see the images of the orchids next to the awards.

Thanks,
NancyG

[OnicheK]

Big THANK YOU from me too! Most of all, to all of our wonderful plants who make our lives so much better!

Congratulations to everybody with the gift of convincing an orchid to bloom!

[Jirel]

Congradulations to everyone who won - and those are BEAUTIFUL award signs.

[patticake]

Congratulations, all!!! Beautiful photos- beautiful plants.

[Orchidementia]

WOW! Thank you again!! Congratulations to the other winners!

[articuno75]

Congrats to all the winners and a job well done to the entries for June.

Nancy~ I don't see them either so I don't think it's a glitch. I'm sure it'll get fixed when Fred gets a chance.

[solay]

Congrats to all. Yippy!!! Love the pictures once they are up. Everyone did a great job.

[myorchid]

Congrats to all! Beautiful pictures and and skill with photography!

[fred]

Here are the winners of the July Photo Competition

The Best Photo For the Novice .. was a Tie

The Best Photo Novice is bkim for Neofinetia falcate


The Best Photo Novice is brandank for {Ascocenda Aroonroj x Vanda coerulescens} x {Vanda Tessellata x Vanda Mimi Palmer}




The Best Photo For the Intermediate.. was also a Tie


The Best Photo Intermediate is Hummer344 for Lc. Cherry Sun


The Best Photo Intermediate is Jay for Onc. Twinkle




The Best Photo For the Open

The Best Photo is jim blanford for Bllra. Smile Eri




The Best Photo For the Species

The Best Photo is Bird Song Farm for Neofinetia falcata Furan




The Best Photo For the Floral Art

The Best Photo is SteveB





The Best Photo For the "Special Effects"

The Best Photo is kid_a for P Magic Kiss (close-up)



A Big Congrats to all the winners and all I can say is I agree with the Secret Judges comments.....
Quote Secret Judge] Wow....the novice and intermediate categories this month were really difficult. I know we say that almost every month these days but for these 2 classes, this was the hardest judging to date. So many high quality entries. You'll notice I picked 2 in those categories.


congrats to all who have entered the pics are of out standing quality.
Also a BIG thank you to the Secret Judge for his/her outstanding work

[articuno75]

Congrats to all the winners! It had to have been very tough to pick from those choices! So so many beautiful flowers!

[brookn]

Whoo hoo CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

[myorchid]

congrats to all, great job!!!

[patticake]

BRAVO!! BRAVO!!

[PhalPal]

ALL the winners are just lovely; I couldn't have picked between them either. congrats everyone!

[tizzycat]

congrats. everyone

[Bird Song Farm]

Congratulations to all.Outstanding pictures!
AL

[OnicheK]

Touch choices indeed! Congratulations to all participants and, of cours, especially to the winners!

It seems July was full of amazing blooms!

[jay]

I feel so lucky to have been picked by the judges with so many incredible choices. I am glad that I am not a judge.

Congrats to all the entries for a thread of wonderful photos.

[Steve B]

Thank you very much and congratulations to everybody.

Cheers,
Steve

[fred]

Here are the winners for August

The Best Photo for the "Novice".. is jbigio for .. Pleurothallis crucifera




The Best Photo for the "Intermediate".. is mayres for .. noid phal (2nd pic)




The Best Photo for the "Open" .. is jim_blanford for .. Paph curtsii




The Best Photo for the "Species" .. is OnicheK for .. Dendrobium oligophyllum




The Best Photo for "Special Effects" is a Tie

mayres - noid phal (2nd pic) - super close-up



mrspiza - noid phal - super close-up




I would like to thank all the entrants a mighty fine job with all the pictures.

I would also like to Congratulate all the winners of the competition

I would also like to thank the Secret Judges for the time and effort in Judging the comp I am sure it must have been hard with the quality of the photos.

Congratulations to the winners and thank you all for taking the time to produce such top quality pictures.

[Bird Song Farm]

Congratulations everyone. Well done!!

Al

[Vivienne]

Congratulations to all the winners!!!! Beautiful pictures.

[markclkk]

Well done and congratulation to all winner.

[patticake]

Stunning is an understatement!

[OnicheK]

WOW! One of my dends did it! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

That little guy (it's 10 cm tall) smells like candy and it has new buds too! So I guess you were right to award it

Competition gets tougher and tougher around here! Congratulations, everyone!

[jbigio]

Thanks for the congrats everone there werent any lossers with these phots great pictures everyone.
Joe

[fred]

Hi my Fellow Geeks welcome to the September Hall Of Fame Winners for the September Photography Contest

The Winners For September are

The Best Photo for the "Novice" --- Fred for Sarc. Melody 'Mel' x Riverdene Red Speckles




The Best Photo for the "Intermediate" --- Andrew for Caladenia carnea




The Best Photo for the "Open" --- Jim Blanford for Lc. Ann Akagi X Puppy Love



The Best Photo for the "Species" --- orchidementia for Dendrobium ceraula




The Best Photo for the "Floral Art" --- Jim Blanford For Paph Basket




The Best Photo for the "Special Effects" --- mgfree for Blc Goldstar x Lc Rojo 'The King'




The quality of all the photos entered in the September Competition are all of High Quality I would like to thank each member that has entered in the comp.
Please keep up the good work with your photos

Congratulations to all the winners of each Category
Also a big thank you to The Secret Judge a very tough month to Judge

thank you all

[tizzycat]

congratulations to all. Great photos all round.

[Bird Song Farm]

Another month of Great Photos folks, congratualtions to all and keep them comming!

Al

[Sharyn]

Congratulations to all the winners. Wonderful photos.

[dr_frnkblck]

Congrats to everybody who won.

When I saw Fred's Sarc. Melody 'Mel' x Riverdene Red Speckles I knew it was all over for me. What an amazing flower.