Need fellow birders help!

My Eagle photo was published today in Open Ar Magazine by USA Today! I am a finalist in their photo contest to win a Canon 5d package..Woohoo
So if you like my Eagle shot and want to help a fellow birder vote for me! I could sure use a 5d You can vote once a day per ip address. So vote on your cell phone, work compyer as much as you can everyday ;) Tell everyone!

Eagle Photo #4

http://www.usatoday.com/marketing/brand_mkt/openair/photo_contest/flash.htm

Thanks Everyone!!

I am competing with the skydiving photo and found what they were saying about my photo and were putting us birders down lol

They said...hats pretty sad guys... the birdwatchers are able to be more organized than we are?? come on guys, we can do better than this...

Jonesy

Congratulations, Jonesy. I couldn't open your link so I have added it again. Hope this one works.

Nice photo of the Bald Eagle. Good Luck !!!


http://www.usatoday.com/marketing/brand_mkt/openair/photo_contest/flash.htm



Edit Note: Jonesy, your link works okay. It must have been my computer since it eventually locked up ???

This message was edited Sep 6, 2008 5:52 PM

Thanks!!

Very nice shot Jonesy! I hope you will be pleased with the wonderful opportunity of getting that shot even if you are not the winner. but you've got my vote (I would love to help someone get a canon 5D set up (Wow!)

I can't get the link to open either. I'll keep trying and vote with all my techno tools.
Laurel

Thanks everyone!

usatoday.com/marketing/brand_mkt/openair/photo_contest/flash.htm

or try
openair.usatoday.com and go to cast your vote

Okay, I'm on it, but you better hire a marketing coordinator! lol
Laurel

Great photo Jonesy! I cast my vote on your behalf. The results showed you were in the lead with 32%!

Gotcha covered for today Jonesy.
Laurel

Got my vote.

I just voted, your still in the lead but just by a slight margin. Your at 32% and the Overlook is at 30%.

Come on everyone lets help out a fellow DG member.

Don't forget today's vote for Jonesy

Jonesy, that is an absolutely fantastic photo.
I just voted for it. Today you have dropped to second place, and the Sky divers have dropped to 3rd. place. The hiker in the Canadian Rockies is now in 1st place.

Well, I just voted again and I'm barely a birder.lol Then I made some calls for reinforcements.
Laurel

That camera prize is certainly worth a little drooling, but I think your being in the finalist group is the real prize. I did just cast my daily vote !!

I've been voting every day (as allowed) but today the link won't open. Hope you win, Jonesy. That's a fabulous shot.

Edited to say that I got in and voted.

This message was edited Sep 10, 2008 1:25 PM

Voted

Voted again....you are down to 27 percent.

U got my vote 4 2day!

Hey Jonesy,
Noticed you signed up for DG the same day you posted this thread. Are you going to stay on as a subscriber or did you just sign up to get votes?

WHOA----Very Valid Question, flowerjen.
I hope we @ DG weren't just "marketed for votes. Why haven't you posted anywhere else? or even posted some of your other pics ??????
Here I thought I was helping a fellow DG'er, but I don't see any participating anywhere. Please don't be a "politician".....only courting us for our votes.......
and I came here today, excited that "we " had pulled you up to a tie with the other 2 tops.............Now , I don't know if I feel so good about that......

Oh. and I was all ready to vote.....gee...

How is that a photo contest if you only go in and vote for a "friend"? That contest is so skewed unless every one that went and voted actually voted for the photo they really thought was best, I've always had a problem with these requests...how can you brag about winning? All you could brag about is you got the most votes, had the most "friends".

Don't mean to be offensive, I'm just really curious.

I voted for the pic because I liked it, and I know how hard it is to get a photo like that. It would be nice if it turned out that I was voting for a fellow Birder, but not a necessary requisite.

No offense but I did not vote for it because as soon it was posted I saw that Jonesy had just joined Daves obviously to get votes. I also went over to Garden Web and saw the request over there by the first time poster.

I voted for the Canadian Hiker.

After a day or so with no word from jonsey, I started voting for the surfer. That was a very hard picture to get and it was such a good one. The eagle one can be gotten near dams down south throughout most of the winter months by just about anybody that has patience and a good camera.

I do like the eagle photo but I must say that I am very dissappointed in Jonesy for not responding to this thread or making any posts to other threads. I realize that some folks will lurk for awhile before they post to may of the threads. It would have been nice to have some respond from Jonesy on his/her own thread.....especially when so many of our DG family have been ready to lend a hand in support. (mermaid tail swishing in annoyance)

LOL,g_m!

Well, This just makes me so very aware of just what politicians do during the campain.
Our world can be a dissapointment... well......nope......Man is the dissapointment......hmmmm.....I better step down from my soapbox...LOL

I have been voting for "Overlook" every day, because I think it is the best pic....and secondly because I don't like this kind of "begging" for votes.

Overlook has been my choice, once I began to look at the composition and difficulty etc. The Eagle pic is special, but that did not take much effort Photographically (composition, planning, etc) I am very glad that someone spoke up about this. i had never even thought about anyone... "buying votes", might be a good term for what he/she did......I will definitely look closer at anyone who asks for m vote......Man I hate to have to be suspicious of people....By nature I am a trusting person, and am just shocked by things like this.......I shouldn't be anymore though.

I really liked the BiPlane but all that know me know I like close, clutter free photos. I wonder what his son was thinking about when that photo was taken. Big Splash has great colors and of course Canadian Overlook is wonderfully dramatic. I liked Balloons too except for that piece of ballon on the right. Looks like all of them may have made it to the finals on their own merit

Hi Floridian ...... hope you are doing well !!!!

I suppose this contest is like 'American Idol' or 'America's got Talent' where you can vote up to umpteen times. A person should only be able to vote one time. Otherwise, it becomes a gimmick contest. The best (in my opinion) doesn't always win. Here's a prime example where the "best" photo, 'Splash', (again, my opinion), has garnered only 1% of the vote. That photographer has to be really turned off by the whole process. Oh Well !!! I do like the 'Overlook' photo, also. I'm surprised they didn't include pet or baby photos, also. They always tend to become the most 'popular'. Winners should be determined within a pre-determined "theme".

I read the recent comments this morning and have been think about this all day. I too kept thinking about voting for "American Idol". American Idol is sponsored by a phone company, the object of the entire program is to run up phone charges, not to promote talent.
However, judging of other photo contest have entirely different ridiculus problems. When one of my pictures was included in the 25 picture slide show on the home page of the Great Backyard Bird Count, way back in February, I got all excited. Figured I had to be a finalist. Finally after months of waiting, it was finally posted, "the winners will be announced before the next count". Why bother holding a contest, if it isn't going to be judge in a reasonable time period?

I went back and really studied the photos and I also decided "Splash" is a superb photo....I am also surprised it has so few votes. You are right, these kind of contests are really worthless.

Jumping up and down... Splash was my pick too!!! To get a "clean" shot of that required photography skills.

you got my vote

Arrgghh.......
Boo Hiss....
PLEASE don't let this person Buy your vote!
They appear to have ONLY come to DG and posted here to get our votes!!!
This is a contest for the BEST picture and should NOT be won "purchased" votes (getting lots to vote for you, anyway possible , just because someone is a friend, relative, etc....)

Just voted. Your are ahead by 1%. It seems its really just you and the ski divers.

edit: sorry Birdie. I didn't see your post before voting.

This message was edited Sep 14, 2008 8:11 PM

Oh my...I have nothing against this person and really don't mean to seem to be "campaigning" against him/her.....I just wanted to get the facts out.....so...... ;-)