What a challenge indeed!
I assume we all got the system notification this morning--close contest, every vote counts, time for the folks who have yet to participate to decide the winners, and the last chance for the rest of us to agonize over our choices...
Should I change my mind, again? re-flip the coin? 2/3 or 3/5?
How many votes did I 'waste' on some picture that I really like, for some incredibly good reason or another, that probably no one else does? Taste is so subjective...too hard to anticipate what the popular vote may be and which photo may need a nudge vote. Cripes! and what if it is one of my own?
that I didn't vote for because I've seen it a gazillion times and it doesn't move me like something fresh to my eyes???
Oh, the madness!
It would be easiest to vote for three that should not win. I tried to do that iteratively, like kicking photos off the island, but I could not continue. I still need way more than three votes for truly awesome photos in each category!
Y'all have mentioned bugs/birds (and apparently lizards and frogs
) and macros already--not too surprising as categories with tough choices. Trees and shrubs--wow--another category loaded with tough choices for me!
Spectacular show everybody!
Pleasure to view and dang near practically impossible to 'judge'!
I hope that there will be some mechanism to discuss a photo and/or let the photographer know how we may have admired a particular photo that didn't win, because there are many winning photos here that will not make the final cut.
Just a few more hours of anticipation...
Does anyone know how many votes we will get for the final 16?
1? 3? just curious...
