Re-Create Contest winner announced!!!

OOTB is pleased to announce the winner of our first real contest. :cool:

Hazel Grant has won the contest with her entry Watching the sunset ! :cheers:
Congratulations Hazel, you have won a no-expenses paid "Day On The Bay" with Captain James Shadle, on the luxurious Hooptie Re-Deux!! Please contact him directly via PM to discuss scheduling and details. I would hold out for peak spoonbill season. :D

Thanks for all the great entries, we will be doing these contests every couple of months so keep an eye out for them.

I would also like to recognize the second and third place winners.

Second place - Recreate Part Deaux by Cheryl Slechta - very nice work Cheryl!

Third place - Chardine Gannet by Paul Lagasi - Paul, I'm sure John will want to speak to you when he returns...

Hazel, Big congratulations!! Have fun on the Hooptie Deux!!!
Cheryl and Paul, Very well done.

Congratulations Hazel. Excellent composition.

Congratulations to Cheryl and Paul for their recognition.

Congrats Hazel. Very well deserved. Look forward to seeing your images from aboard the Hooptie Deux!

Hazel, a big congratulations! Well-deserved. :)

Big congratulations, Hazel! :) Well done, Cheryl and Paul too!

Thanks everyone. I am so thrilled!!

Congratulations Hazel! And to Cheryl and Paul for their creative entries!

Big congrats to Hazel, Cheryl and Paul! Awesome entries.

Way to go Hazel, very well thought out image, lovely.
Cheryl like it, nice work

Kerry, John probably laughed as much as I did while putting this image together. We Canucks are tough, I am ready for whatever he brings...lololol...:2eyes2:.

Congrats Hazel. Great stuff by all. Peak spoonbill season is usually in early March when the birds are in their brightest plumages.