Winners - BLUE

[Indranil Sircar]

This has been an amazing week of creativity and fun. There were total of thirty one images not including the ones Denise and Kerry showcased. This obviously made my task harder and I took the liberty of selecting few additional images as each of these images showcased vision, technique and more over this week's theme. Here are my choices -

First place - Steve Adkins for "Pollen Pool (http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?72110-Pollen-Pool)". A fun image and totally OOTB with excellent processing and technique. Congratulations Steve.

Joint Second place -

Jim Bridges for "Blue Damselfly (http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?72190-Blue-Damselfly)". Outstanding macro and use of naturally occurring color as part of the theme.

Connie Mier for "Blue Portuguese man-o-war (http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?72393-Blue-Portuguese-man-o-war)". Excellent out-of-the-camera composition that is visually pleasing with natural colors.
Third place - Mital Patel for "Blue Flame (http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?72395-Blue-Flame)". Aesthetically beautiful and as graceful as the bird itself, Mital's artistic vision certainly stands out here.

Fourth place - Michael Gerald-Yamasaki for "Half Dome in Blue (http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?72325-Half-Dome-in-Blue)". Beautiful silhouette of Half Dome that stands against the starry sky. Another excellent use of nature for this week's theme!

Fifth place - Ken Childs for "The rare Indigo Cardinal (http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?72104-The-rare-Indigo-Cardinal)". The new species certainly rocked the OOTB forum! Excellent technique.
Congratulations to the winners and all the participants for some outstanding images that did not get mentioned here today. Also, thanks to Denise and Kerry for their support and feedback on all the images.

[denise ippolito]

Thank you so much Indranil for taking the time to judge. You did a great job! Much appreciated!
Steve, Big Congratulations on a very lovely image. Well deserved!
Jim and Connie, Congratulations to you both. Well deserved. Both images were wonderful.
Mital , Great job with this one, Congratulations.
Michael, Congratulations, Nice work.
Ken, A unique color. Congratulations!

[Judy Howle]

Congratulations everyone, very nice work!

[Paul Lagasi]

Congrats to everyone, Idranil..thanks for judging, its must have been tough narrowing it down to 5....so many nice "blue" images this week

[Michael Gerald-Yamasaki]

Greetings & Congrats to everyone. Indranil, thanks for judging... lots of good ones this time.

Cheers,

-Michael-

[Cheryl Slechta]

Congratulations to all the winners and participants. Thanks for judging, Indranil - you did a great job! There were a lot of nice (and interesting) images this week.:)

[Steve Adkins]

Thanks for all your time in judging, Indranil. Congrats to all entries and to everyone's continued guidance and mutual support. Wonderful varied, visions of Blue. :)

[Kerry Perkins]

Excellent judging Indranil! Thank you so much. Big congrats to Steve and all the winners. I really liked this theme! Can RED be far behind? ;)

[Jim Bridges]

This was a fantastic theme and lots of very interesting blue images...I really enjoyed seeing all of them!

[Mark Fuge]

Congrats to all participants with another great week's show.

[Christopher Miller]

Big congratulations, everyone! Lots of excellent images this week. Thanks a lot for the great job judging, Indranil! :)