Nicely done, voters, contestants, and staff... in ATP Photo Contest: Cast Your Votes for the Best of Show

By dave
November 12, 2014

The first place winning photos in each category are now revealed, but voting isn't over! You now must choose your favorites from among them. The ones with the most votes will receive the Best of Show award. You have only 24 hours to vote.

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evermorelawnless

Nov 11, 2014 6:54 PM CST

Thread OP

Name: Asa
Wasatch Front - Utah

This has been a ton of fun so far. I'm looking forward to seeing the final results!

There were some amazing entries and I really enjoyed seeing all of the fine work done by everyone.

Thanks for putting this together - and thanks for the fine photos.

Voting for the best three was.............TOUGH!!

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flaflwrgrl

Nov 11, 2014 7:09 PM CST

Name: Ann ~Heat zn 9, Sunset
North Fl. (Zone 8b)

What Asa said.

I wanted to vote for them all. Then I wanted to vote for 6. Then 5. Then I got real stuck at 4. This was ROUGH. This was the only part of the contest I did not enjoy ~~~ the voting. Having to not vote for so many fabulous photos just plain hurt.

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| @flaflwrgrl | Post #731323 (2)

valleylynn

Nov 11, 2014 7:35 PM CST

Name: Lynn
Oregon City, OR (Zone 8b)

And this last vote was the toughest of all. This was so much fun.

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Sharon

Nov 11, 2014 8:22 PM CST

Name: Sharon
Calvert City, KY (Zone 7a)

It was an incredibly beautiful contest from the beginning to the very last vote.

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CDsSister

Nov 11, 2014 10:17 PM CST

Name: Marilyn
Greenwood Village, CO (Zone 5b)
Garden today. Clean next week.

Now the pleasure of watching the Winners!!!!! YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

| @CDsSister | Post #731417 (5)

Frillylily

Nov 12, 2014 8:42 AM CST

Missouri (Zone 6a)

will all of the photos entered still be viewable after the contest?

| @Frillylily | Post #731536 (6)

dave

Nov 12, 2014 9:00 AM CST

Garden.org Admin

Name: Dave Whitinger
Southlake, Texas (Zone 8a)

All the photos that received at least one vote will be viewable.

| @dave | Post #731543 (7)

valleylynn

Nov 12, 2014 9:01 AM CST

Name: Lynn
Oregon City, OR (Zone 8b)

Now we can view them as often as we want. Thank you Dave.

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| @valleylynn | Post #731544 (8)

Calif_Sue

Nov 12, 2014 9:55 AM CST

Plants Admin

Name: Suzanne/Sue
Sebastopol, CA (Zone 9a)
Sunset Zone 15

Dave, some people may not see this, I know at first glance I just thought the announcement of the voting was still for the general vote. Could you also give a system message to everyone like you did earlier?

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| @Calif_Sue | Post #731580 (9)

dave

Nov 12, 2014 10:03 AM CST

Garden.org Admin

Name: Dave Whitinger
Southlake, Texas (Zone 8a)

I sent out the system message about the vote because we weren't getting as many votes as I thought we should. After I sent out the message, we got maybe a 30% increase in voting participation which was great.

With the best of show voting, we're not having that problem. Already nearly 50% of those who voted in the original categories have cast votes in the best of show. So, I feel a system message isn't warranted.

| @dave | Post #731583 (10)

Calif_Sue

Nov 12, 2014 10:08 AM CST

Plants Admin

Name: Suzanne/Sue
Sebastopol, CA (Zone 9a)
Sunset Zone 15

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| @Calif_Sue | Post #731590 (11)

Skiekitty

Nov 12, 2014 3:11 PM CST

Name: Toni
Denver Metro (Zone 5a)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

My problem is that I didn't even know there was a contest going on, so was too late to put in any entries.. not that I'd have anything worthy compared to some of these pictures!!

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dave

Nov 12, 2014 3:12 PM CST

Garden.org Admin

Name: Dave Whitinger
Southlake, Texas (Zone 8a)

How could you not know? It's been plastered all over the homepage for days on end, it was in the newsletter, I spammed facebook about it, and I even added it to the navigational menu on the left side.

| @dave | Post #731797 (13)

Sharon

Nov 12, 2014 3:16 PM CST

Name: Sharon
Calvert City, KY (Zone 7a)

On the front page . . .starting October 25 with three or 4 more following.

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Skiekitty

Nov 12, 2014 3:20 PM CST

Name: Toni
Denver Metro (Zone 5a)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

Ok, so I'm blind. Now what?

And I don't get any posts from FB from ATP for some reason and I honestly never saw it on the homepage.. but I don't scroll down, either. 5 second soundbyte mentality here... if it's not on the top with flashing neon lights & BZZT! noises, I won't see it. (not that I have sound at work)

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| @Skiekitty | Post #731802 (15)

dave

Nov 12, 2014 3:33 PM CST

Garden.org Admin

Name: Dave Whitinger
Southlake, Texas (Zone 8a)

It's funny that there's another thread going on today in a different forum of ATP where we're talking about how hard it is to get people to notice the big red info boxes.