{"id":11759,"date":"2012-09-23T18:56:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T22:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=11759"},"modified":"2012-09-23T18:59:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T22:59:39","slug":"and-the-grand-prize-winner-is-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2012\/09\/23\/and-the-grand-prize-winner-is-3\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Grand Prize Winner Is"},"content":{"rendered":"

And the Grand Prize Winner Is<\/h3>\n

The Judge’s Vote for Grand Prize<\/h2>\n

1-Jacana chick on Lily-leaf: 24
\nT2-Pallid Harrier looking back: 23
\nT2-Great Egret on Spillway: 23
\nT2-Toco Toucan: 23
\n5-Wagtail and Brown Bear: 22
\nT6-Siskins Fighting: 21
\nT6-King Eider head portrait: 21
\nT8-Yellow-rumped Warbler Art: 20
\nT8-Grey Heron with Fish: 20
\nT10-Merlin on Fence Post: 19
\nT10-Great Blue Heron Leg: 19<\/p>\n

The Public Vote for Grand Prize<\/h2>\n

1-Jacana chick on Lily-leaf: 123
\n2-Grey Heron with Fish:: 78
\n3-Siskins Fighting: 70
\n4-Wagtail and Brown Bear: 60
\n5-Pallid Harrier looking back: 57
\n6-Toco Toucan: 49
\n7-Great Egret on Spillway: 29
\n8-Yellow-rumped Warbler Art: 19
\n9-King Eider head portrait: 18
\n10-Merlin on Fence Post: 16
\n11-Great Blue Heron Leg: 15<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Grand Prize Winner<\/h3>\n

Congrats to Lou Coetzer. His image, Jacana chick on Lily-leaf, was selected as best in show by both the panel of judges and the public. <\/p>\n

My Comments<\/h3>\n

The cream surely rose to the top here. While there is lots of correlation between the judge’s panel and the public vote we are somewhat comparing apples and oranges because images in very strong categories may have scored relatively lower than images in weaker categories. In no way, however, am I surprised that a single image emerged as clearly best from the 5,500 entries. Think about that one for a while….<\/p>\n

Thanks to the skills and hard work of Peter Kes you can see a gallery of all the honored and prize-winning images here<\/a>. Click on an image to view the larger size. I must say with all honesty and with all due respect that I would put this collection of avian images up against the best avian images from the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competitions and the best avian images from the Nature’s Best Competitions. <\/p>\n

The Grand Prize Prize Pool <\/h2>\n\n\n
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$500 Gift Certificate<\/td>\nB&H PHOTO VIDEO<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Choice of Lens Plate<\/td>\nWimberley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Two 32 GB 450 X UDMA Compact Flash Cards<\/td>\nDelkin Devices<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24 x 36″ Gallery Wrap Canvas Print<\/td>\nCanvas On Demand<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Airport International Bag V2<\/td>\nThink Tank<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Choice of Canon\/Nikon Lens Plate<\/td>\n4th Generation Design<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gitzo 3530 LS Carbon Fiber Tripod<\/td>\nGitzo<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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And the Grand Prize Winner Is The Judge’s Vote for Grand Prize <\/p>\n

1-Jacana chick on Lily-leaf: 24 T2-Pallid Harrier looking back: 23 T2-Great Egret on Spillway: 23 T2-Toco Toucan: 23 5-Wagtail and Brown Bear: 22 T6-Siskins Fighting: 21 T6-King Eider head portrait: 21 T8-Yellow-rumped Warbler Art: 20 T8-Grey Heron with Fish: 20 T10-Merlin on Fence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-147","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}