Berlin Challenge - Winners

[andybarton]

Here they are.

Once again, a big, no huge, thank you to everyone who made it to Berlin, and everyone who voted (and everyone who has helped me check the votes!). We had 22 entries and 80 voters this year, and it's a testament to Bill's original idea that the Challenge gets bigger and better every year.

Now, to the top three.*

1st - "Memory" - Andy Barton
2nd - "U2 Pankow" - Carl Bretteville
3rd - "Walking" - Bill Palmer

(Reminder Berlin One Challenge 2007)

All the technical details are here: http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-...s-details.html

Congratulations to everyone who took part. We all know how difficult going out and shooting only 36 shots in 2 hours, often in a strange city, can be.

So, the €250, the Leica jacket and the baseball cap, all go to, erm, Andy Barton.

Now, as some of you may have noticed, that's me. Since Ann, my wife, is a nurse who specialises in the treatment of stroke patients, I will donate the prize fund to The Stroke Association. Hard to think of a better place to put the money. So, a big thank you, on their behalf.

Now, to the more exciting bit.

LFI will be running an article on the Challenge in December / January. Great publicity for the Forum and everyone involved.

For anyone who is interested, the votes in spreadsheet form are here: www.andybarton.com/berlin.pdf

* As you can imagine, it's humbling to type this stuff when you are the organiser and the winner. Thank you.

Merci Berlin-416.jpg
(Been saving this one )

[cbretteville]

Congratulations Andy!!

And again, thanks for organizing a great event.

- Carl

[bill]

Fantastic! A worthy winner and a worthy recipient for the prize money.

Many congratulations Andy.

Regards,

Bill

[stunsworth]

Fix!!!

Andy, congratulations both on winning and on donating the prize money to such a deserving charity.

Congratulations also to everyone who entered and/or voted. I hope to see you all next year in Poland.

[ejd]

Andy -- many thanks for all the work you have put in to this. (Very fine spreadsheet, btw!) And congratulations on winning!

And congratulations to Carl and Bill as well.

It was -- need one say it again? -- a most enjoyable weekend in Berlin. Great to see everyone there, and to take part in this. I look forward to seeing the piece in LFI, and to next year's challenge in Krakow.

All the best, John

[Tim Delbeck]

what more can i add?
both congratulations and (once more) a big thankyou to you, andy.


interesting to see the names linked to the pictures now. i realize i didn't guess any of the authors right...
what about you?

-tim-

[andybarton]

Originally Posted by Tim Delbeck

interesting to see the names linked to the pictures now. i realize i didn't guess any of the authors right...
what about you?

-tim-

I did.

[earleygallery]

Congratulations Andy for winning & what a kind gesture to give the donation, and well done to Carl and Bill for making the final 3.

Looking forward to seeing everyone in Krakow. Seems a long way off at the moment!

[azzo]

A GRAND & NOBLE GESTURE.......WELL DONE ANDY.

Now to photography.

Andy,

Congratulations coming from the heart.....A GREAT IMAGE and CAPTURE, IMHO.
I would also like to add...it was difficult to decide on which images to vote for.....
....meaning " Nicely done to all taking part "

Azzo

[Neville Porter]

Andy well done, and very generous of you to make the donation. Thank you for all the orgainisation.
Not wanting to create any more work but is it possible to know which lens were used for the pictures submitted?
Also I look forward to seeing the pictures that participants rated as their lets say their top three after their submission. If a thread was started for this how small can the pictures be to load them and balance out smallest size thats practical for the site/thread and yet still see them. It would be great to see everyones submission at a similar size. Where could this thread be placed.
Incidentally do I remember correctly were you using a R9+DMR for trhe Challenge?
I have a shoot coming up were I need a long lense and I look forward to using this fine camera combination again.
It involves "shooting" Deer heads for a Deer Stud catalogue were the photo of the animals head clearly shows an ear tag that can be read! The deer are often 75 to 150 meters away.

[bill]

Lens details are all here, Neville:

http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-...s-details.html

Regards,

Bill

[robert_parker]

Andy

Congratulations on the winning entry and an excellent submission - congratulations to Carl and Bill, too - look forward to seeing you all again in Krakow !!

[jmr]

Well done to all who took part and especially to Mr Barton, a deserved winner.

[zernikepolynom]

Dear Andy,

congratulations . It is a very nice idea to donate the price.

I would like to thank everyone for submitting their images, they were fun to look at.

Thanks again to Andy for organizing this unique event.

Cheers

Stefan

[spylaw4]

Congratulations to the well deserved winners Andy, Carl and Bill and thanks to all who organised and participated. It's fascinating to see who took each shot - I got them completely wrong!

Now for next year!

It would be good to see "The ones that got away" thread get going.

[michael_boylan]

Fix!

So Andy organised and won this one, Bill organised and won the Barnack Challenge. Mmmn, what does that tell us?...








....that we have some great photographers here

Congrats to Andy, Carl and Bill. Andy, I can see this took hooooooouuuuuuuurs to do so a big thank you from me.

Michael

[kuddel]

Congratulations to the three winners!! Very well done, they deserves the win.

Thank you to all the participants for this exciting competition. I enjoyed it much to take part and I hope I could come to Krakow to meet you again for the One Challenge 2008.

Regrads,
Andreas

[masjah]

Congratulations to the first three in particular, and to all the entrants for their splendid images. Many thanks Andy, for organising such an enjoyable event. A really good cause to which to donate the prize money. The idea of donating the prize to one's nominated charity seems to be becoming a noble tradition of the Challenge - long may it continue.

[jc_braconi]

Congratulation to all !
Andy you are a big man !
Cheers
JC

[DTD]

Well done everyone, especially Andy. Some good entries this year – I know I had trouble picking my top 3.