So here it is… (The contest)
Bam! And you say goddamn, this is a dope jam? OK, enough Public Enemy.
Back to the contest.
We honestly had no idea when we decided to give away our old camera for a print from someone how big this contest would actually get. Over 1600 people sent in photos, 5 photos per person. Meaning, we looked at over 8000 images to get it down the the final 5. Scratch that, 10. We decided to each pick 5, don’t get mad… it’s our contest for our camera and we didn’t want to argue.
People from all over the world sent in stuff and we want to thank every one of you for taking the time to do so, I wish we had 100 of these cameras to give away. There was a lot of great stuff but what it came down to is what would we love to have big hanging on our wall (that was the whole point remember) and here they are in no particular order after the jump. (images can be clicked to see a bigger version).
Erik Schmahl.
Brett Rhoades
Ted Pushinsky.
Jo Galvin.
Marije Kuiper.
Marina Rosso.
Nicholas Lorden.
Wes Cummings.
Wes Frazer.
Richmond Lam.
THE VOTING IS DONE!!!! IT WRAPPED UP AT 1PM TODAY. Brett Rhoades is the winner by 2 votes, holy crap! The 40 people who wrote in names after the polls closed might have made the outcome different but it’s too late. The one week of voting is up, thanks to everyone who participated by sending in photos, voting, spreading the word etc. Congratulations Brett, email us your address.
Correction: 1 vote, how did someone vote after the polls closed? Tricky.
P.S. Please stop writing in names.
Cheers,
Jeremy & Claire Weiss/Day19.
Who should win our old Canon 5D.
- Photo 2 - Brett Rhoades (24%, 1,814 Votes)
- Photo 9 - Wes Frazer (24%, 1,812 Votes)
- Photo 5 - Marije Kuiper (13%, 941 Votes)
- Photo 6 - Marina Rosso (10%, 714 Votes)
- Photo 10 - Richmond Lam (8%, 600 Votes)
- Photo 8 - Wes Cummings (7%, 548 Votes)
- Photo 3 -Ted Pushinsky (4%, 327 Votes)
- Photo 1 - Erik Schmahl (4%, 298 Votes)
- Photo 7 - Nicholas Lorden (4%, 294 Votes)
- Photo 4 - Jo Galvin (2%, 137 Votes)
Total Voters: 7,476
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285 Comments
I think Brett Rhoades is my favorite.
what time does contest end today?
It was supposed to end at noon. Any minute now I guess I should say. Crazy, first time I’ve looked in days and Brett and Wes are neck and neck.
you can end it now! brett is ahead!
Wes Fraser. Holla.
Go brett!!!
I (Jeremy) just cast my vote. I do love them all but I voted for Marina Rosso. It brings me back to a style of photography I’ve always loved, and the framing of the people is just too perfect.
Wes Frazer! Fo sho!
how do you vote?
Wes Frazer
noticing the votes haven’t changed in a while… is it over?
# 9 Wes Frazier for certain- I would love looking at a huge print of this every day!
Brett
Wes Frazer gets my vote!
Wes Frazer!
Brett Rhoades FTW!!!!
hello to everybody! before starting, i apologize for my bad english (i’m italian). i’ve been looking all the week at what was happening here. and i really wanted to say thanks to the people who understood my photo, and even wanted to thank those who didn’t like it but, at least, they tried to understand what there was behind. i’m not a professional photographer, but i work hard, hoping, one day, to be one.
if you want to see my work, here you can find my website, and my flickr:
http://www.marinarosso.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marigelaffa/
if u have any question or critique, i’ll be happy to talk about it.
We support the photo from MARIJE KUIPER
They are all so good! Down to Wes or Marina for me!
KEEP IT GOING!
What a fun, complicated, occasionally snarky, and periodically sad set of comments. Thanks, 19, for doing this, and don’t worry about the negatives — folks sometimes just feel compelled to criticize more strongly those who are actually doing something than those who sit at home on their hands. You did a good thing. I’m clearly in a minority liking Jo Galvin’s photo, but that’s okay — I also like Brett’s, and the two Wes photos, and the rest are maybe quirky choices that depend on how heavily medicated I am on any given day. I looked at crobs808’s examples and they’re all good photos, but they’re also a different sensibility than yours. Doesn’t bother me, although it means he’s not very likely to buy my photos.
Are the above results final? When’s your next contest? #8->
congrats brett!!
Brett Rhoades
I sent you guys a email with my address to [email protected]. I’ll be needing your address too! If you need me to send the information somewhere else just let me know.
Thank you everyone who supported me by voting for my picture!
Brett Rhoades
This was decided by one vote? Strange days, indeed.
Congrats, Brett! Everyone’s pictures were amazing!!! I want to know how to get my hands on Ted Pushinsky’s photo!!!!!!! [email protected]
Congratulations Brett. I love your photo. My little brother lost to you by just one vote and i thought he would win it. Amazing! But, you deserve it. Keep up the good work and many thanks to 19.
hmm.. it was 2 votes wasn’t it?
woooooow. 2 votes! that’s incredible…
Yeah! Congrats Brett… I would like to see the photos with the new camera!!!!
we always vote for the winner. great contest, day19.
Woo Hoo! Illinois State represent!
So happy for you Brett, though a little jealous that I had to buy my 5D with my loan money last year ;P
Can’t wait to see what’s up next for you… See you in the print lab!
these pics are great. and so is this site. each of the ten images offer something unique and evocative; perhaps a different reality, maybe a different truth. a different way of looking at something that has probably been overlooked on countless occasions. I swear I have glimpsed/experienced scenes similar to these through my own eyes, and dare i say it the magic was most likely unrealised. finding beauty someplace it seemingly never existed before? that has to be a good thing. what photography is about right? I dunno. I like the images tho.
Jo’s and Marina’s pics are my picks.
Well, it appears that the contest was successful. Anyone who thinks this was actually about photography is missing the boat. Day19 drove more hits to their site that ever before, and that was the whole purpose, so congrats.
It all ends with Day19’s last post to me, requesting me to critique on their photos and work, so I guess they think highly of me. And this also all ends with a post just above by Wes (actually multiple posts) where he posts his resume, and every link he has of his “fantastic” photos. I guess he needs a job or something…I don’t know why he is trying to convince me of something – seems a bit insecure and narcissistic if you ask me to try and win the approval of someone over the internet.
So in the end we are left with, not a bad taste in our mouth, but the realization that Day19 successfully drove more hits to their site, yet all of us wasted our time on this “photography” contest. (“photography” being the loose term). That poor Canon 5D…now it will never know what it means to be used to its full potential.
Because we get paid in hits? So where’s that critique? P.S. I fixed your typos.