Winners: Weekly Challenge #108: Parent/Child Candids

*dadipentak* · 09-04-2009, 04:50 PM

First of all, I want to thank Leaf Fan and daacon for their graciousness in response to my (characteristic) clumsiness in the kick-off.

The judging part is even harder because there have been such great submissions and because judging really isn't my strong suit. All I can do, I guess is bite the bullet and make my picks. Here goes:

I'll start with the disqualification of the submissions by Bramela and Ash as very effective photos but not really candids.

I also want to record Honorable Mentions for Leaf Fan, Mechan1k, K McCall, legacyb4, song_hm, mingdie. Nice work!

*dadipentak* · 09-04-2009, 04:52 PM

I'm going to take the liberty of announcing a tie for third place--between the father & child on bike photo by tpeace which I found irresistible and the contemporary family by Rense because candid moments aren't always sweet.

*dadipentak* · 09-04-2009, 04:54 PM

This one by Free Soul superbly captures a moment of shared joy and love

*dadipentak* · 09-04-2009, 04:57 PM

An outstanding photograph by any measure--wonderfully executed and full of meaning. Congratulations, CWyatt!

*geauxpez* · 09-04-2009, 06:36 PM

All fantastic shots. Congrats to the winners!

*photolady* · 09-04-2009, 07:24 PM

Congrats to the winners. I knew when I saw Free Soul's mine didn't stand a chance.

*dadipentak* · 09-04-2009, 08:17 PM

I should say, btw, that I went 'round and 'round about 1st and 2nd place because Free Soul's shot so exemplifies the spirit of the candid genre.

*daacon* · 09-04-2009, 09:16 PM

Another winning week great entries all, good job on the judging and congrats Free Soul and the other winners .

*Leaf Fan* · 09-04-2009, 09:47 PM

No thanks necessary, it's all good.

Great photos everybody and congratulations to the winners, well deserved.

mingdie · 09-04-2009, 10:36 PM

Congrats to the winners. Great job of judging with so many good shots. Thanks for the honourable mention.

Cheers
Eddie

Free Soul · 09-05-2009, 01:51 AM

Congrats to CWyatt, tpeace and Rence! Wonderful shots!
The Firts place shot is a really very impressive, so touching!

Congrats to all participants, the challenge was great!

All entries showed sweet and/or strong moments of parents-child relationship.

Thank you for comments about my shot.

*Rense* · 09-05-2009, 02:42 AM

Congrats to all! There are some great shots and the one by CWyatt is superb!! It was a winner the moment it was posted...

CWyatt · 09-05-2009, 10:38 PM

Thanks very much for the comments on Of Life or Death It's been a good day for that photo, it also came second in a competition here in NZ.

I'm really impressed by the other photographs in this thread. They would go very well in the M.I.L.K. series that came out a few years ago. ( http://www.freshmilkphotos.com/ )