Photo Challenge Poll: 'Favourite Photos'

[xSilverPhinx]

Congrats, Hermes! Well done! 

[hermes2015]

The poll has closed and #5, a photo by hermes2015, has won this edition of the HAF Photo Challenge. Well done, hermes2015!

As the winner, you get to choose the theme for the next photo challenge. 

Thank you to all who submitted images, and to all who voted.

Thank you Recusant and also to everyone else for the kind words.

It is probably quite obvious that photo #5 was taken in Santorini, one of my favourite places in the world.

I hope photo #12 shows how elated my partner Sajib was when we finally got to visit Niagara Falls. I think everything lines up nicely to lead the eye to the focal point: his happy face face and his little dance of joy.

The location of photo #18 is probably not as obvious as the other two. It was taken late one afternoon in Port Elizabeth, a city on the east coast of South Africa, when I was there on a business trip a few years ago.

I will try to think of a good theme for the next photo challenge.

[Recusant]

It is probably quite obvious that photo #5 was taken in Santorini, one of my favourite places in the world.

It looked quintessentially Mediterranean to me, but I did wonder if maybe South Africa has a place like that too.

I will try to think of a good theme for the next photo challenge.

Thank you; I thought the last one you came up with was excellent--please don't take too long! 




The Storr (the large pinnacle is called "The Old Man of Storr"), on the Isle of Skye.



Dew in a spider's web, taken on the Côte de Granit Rose in Brittany.



Great blue heron, taken on the Anhinga Trail in Everglades National Park.

[Dragonia]

Ah yes, congratulations Hermes!  I agree that you definitely have an eye for line and composition. Beautiful pictures!
And Tank, your 3 little pigs were super cute!

[hermes2015]

It looked quintessentially Mediterranean to me, but I did wonder if maybe South Africa has a place like that too.

Yes, there are areas that look and feel quite Mediterranean around Cape Town. Even the climate - hence its importance as an excellent wine producing region. There are suburbs of Cape Town that are very reminiscent of Monte Carlo. Google Bantry Bay, Sea Point, Llandudno, and Camps Bay to get some idea.

[Tank]

It looked quintessentially Mediterranean to me, but I did wonder if maybe South Africa has a place like that too.

Yes, there are areas that look and feel quite Mediterranean around Cape Town. Even the climate - hence its importance as an excellent wine producing region. There are suburbs of Cape Town that are very reminiscent of Monte Carlo. Google Bantry Bay, Sea Point, Llandudno, and Camps Bay to get some idea.

If I knew I had forgotten that you were in South Africa. Had a lovely meal at a wonderful restaurant in Camps Bay. And you're quite right it feels very Mediterranean.

[Recusant]

I think my favorites out of this lot (leaving aside my own of course!) were Dragonia's Indian pipe, Tank's pigs, and Lark's man with a horse. 

[Tank]

The pigs had just eaten the contents of the bowl and so stuffed they fell asleep.

[Tank]

I was very surprised that Recusant's heron didn't do better. The clarity and colours are wonderful.

[xSilverPhinx]

I was very surprised that Recusant's heron didn't do better. The clarity and colours are wonderful.

Yes, looks like a literal textbook image.

Unfortunately, we could only vote for 5 photos.    I would have loved to have voted for them all!

[Dragonia]

Yes, the heron was a perfectly beautiful photograph!