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Announcing the Megalithic Portal photo competiton winners for December 2010

Submitted by Andy B on Saturday, 23 April 2011  Page Views: 6614

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Castlerigg submitted by JanF : Castlerigg Stone Circle, Keswick, Cumbria. Tuesday 7th December 2010. (Vote or comment on this photo)
I'm very pleased to announce the winners of the December 2010 photo competition, voted for by you. It seems amazing that just a few short months ago we had such deep snow, and this is very much reflected in the winning entries:
1st Prize: Castlerigg by Jan F
2nd Prize: Lanyon Quoit by cazzyjane
3rd Prize: Cerrig Duon stone circle by cerrig

View the photos and more Highly Commended entries below.

1st Prize: Castlerigg by Jan F


2nd Prize: Lanyon Quoit by cazzyjane


3rd Prize: Cerrig Duon stone circle by cerrig


Photos can be scored for visual or archaeological merit or both. Congratulations all, as well as the kudos of having won out of all those photos, you have all won a choice of books from our Online Shop.

Here are some more Highly Commended photos with very good scores to show as well.

Loose Dolmen by Martin_L


Brent Tor by h_fenton


Castlerigg by JanF


Thanks to everyone who entered. Just as a recap, each month all the photos submitted to the Megalithic Portal have a chance to be voted on by you, the visitors.

There is still some time to vote on the February and March competitions and we will be announcing the results of the Jan 2011 competition soon.

Feel free to vote or comment on any photos that particularly catch your eye, either for visual or archaeological merit. A vote from any person will start off the scoring - also remember that you are allowed to vote for your own photos once if you would like to put them forward.

More details on the monthly photo competitions are here.
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Re: Announcing the Megalithic Portal photo competiton winners for December 2010 by rldixon on Sunday, 24 April 2011
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thanx to andy b and runemage for the explaination

any chance of either of you explaing the AV issuefor me ... before the referendum in may.. ;-)
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Re: Announcing the Megalithic Portal photo competiton winners for December 2010 by rldixon on Sunday, 24 April 2011
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I cant seem to be able to work out the scoring system :(

How does Castlrigg 1st place with 10 votes of ten
beat 2nd place lanyan quoit 11 votes of ten
also 3rd place and the first highly recomended also have the same no of votes and same rating

have i missed something ?
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    Re: Announcing the Megalithic Portal photo competiton winners for December 2010 by Runemage on Sunday, 24 April 2011
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    I think some people have voted after they saw the results - which is fine, of course. When I looked some hours after the winners were announced, both the first and second place had 10 votes and a score of 10.






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    Re: Announcing the Megalithic Portal photo competiton winners for December 2010 by Andy B on Sunday, 24 April 2011
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    Rune is right that the voting for each photo is still 'live' after the competition has ended. The general process is:
    1) The public votes and ratings select the top ten photos (as of last week in this case)
    2) I then email the owners of these photos for permission, and to choose which photo they wish to enter if they have more than one in the top 10
    3) Our judges choose the top 3 winners and highly commended from the photos that have been entered. The positions are still closely based on the voting, ie photo number 10 won't get 1st prize, unless the nine above declined to enter
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Re: Announcing the Megalithic Portal photo competiton winners for December 2010 by cazzyjane on Sunday, 24 April 2011
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I would also like to say well done to Cerrig and JanF - I feel a bit of a fraud compared to them as I didnt have to wade a long way through deep snow to get my picture, just don my wellies and nip over the wall! My car did skid a bit on the journey down there though!
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Re: Announcing the Megalithic Portal photo competiton winners for December 2010 by cerrig on Sunday, 24 April 2011
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Thanks also to everyone who voted for my photo, and congratulations both to Janf and Cazzeyjane, two lovely images. Well done.
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Re: Announcing the Megalithic Portal photo competiton winners for December 2010 by Ennor on Sunday, 24 April 2011
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Beautiful winter images, I love the first two of Castlerigg and Lanyon Quoit in particular.
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Re: Announcing the Megalithic Portal photo competiton winners for December 2010 by MikeAitch on Sunday, 24 April 2011
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Great to see all these cracking shots again, hard to believe all that freezing weather wasn't so long ago!
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    Re: Announcing the Megalithic Portal photo competiton winners for December 2010 by TheCaptain on Sunday, 24 April 2011
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    Couldn't agree more Mike. From my perspective it seems to have been warm and sunny for so long now, and so long ago since there was snow.

    Fantastic pictures all.
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Re: Announcing the Megalithic Portal photo competiton winners for December 2010 by SolarMegalith on Sunday, 24 April 2011
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Great set of winter photos ! Congratulations for the winners !
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Re: Announcing the Megalithic Portal photo competiton winners for December 2010 by JanF on Sunday, 24 April 2011
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~ Thank you to all the members of this amazing website for voting for my two photos. I am still in a state of surprised shock. The standard is so very high, and I am humbled to be given a prize.. Thank you Andy B, and all those who liked my images.
JanF (Jan Fialkowski)
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Re: Announcing the Megalithic Portal photo competiton winners for December 2010 by cazzyjane on Saturday, 23 April 2011
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Thankyou to everyone who kindly voted for my photo. It was a lovely surprise and much appreciated. :)
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Re: Announcing the Megalithic Portal photo competiton winners for December 2010 by Runemage on Saturday, 23 April 2011
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Mega (lithic) Congratulations to all the prizewinners. The standard just keeps getting better and better, you are all so talented, very well done!
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