View Full Version : The Kerso Winter Competition - Winner Announced!
I had the pleasure of having a good phone conversation with the infamous 'Kerso' the other week, where he kindly offered to donate a prize, in order to run a competition on Talk Photography, as a way of saying 'Thankyou' to our members for their support.
He offered to leave the format of the competition for us to decide, and after a little chat behind the scenes, we've decided the following :
It's a one round competition, lasting 3 weeks. The theme is literally anything. We've thrown it open to whatever you like. We would prefer it if you took a photo specifically for this comp, but feel free to enter something you have already taken, maybe sat around on your hard drive, untouched by daylight until now. One photo only per member of course. (If there are more than one then the staff will randomly choose the photo which stays :) )
We have also created a specific gallery for you all to upload to here (http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=800).
Just click the link and then at the top right, click on Upload Photos, and follow the process to upload your photo.
Don't forget to give it a title, and normally gallery restrictions apply (800pixels along the longest edge and 160k in filesize).
At the end of the 3 weeks. The gallery will be closed and we will put up a poll for voting for a few days, for you, the members to decide on the winner.
The prize kindly donated by Ian ('Kerso' on here, and the ebay vendor of the same name), is a Sandisk III 1Gb Memory Card
Nice one! Thanks Ian and Marcel - time to get the lens cap off........
Extremely generous of you Ian :love: :thumbs:
Thats very generous and a great idea, will get a shot in for this one!
Venomator
27-12-2006, 02:38
A generous gesture Ian ... power to your elbow m8 ... :clap:
:p
kissfoto
27-12-2006, 06:04
Nice one Kerso :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs: Well done Marcel :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs:
Warspite
27-12-2006, 14:40
Very nice gesture Kerso :clap::clap::clap:
Thanks Guys, Looks like enries in at moment have 20% chance of winning at the moment! Ian.
Top chap :D
Another little bump. Forgot to mention, as it's a 3 week competition, the closing date will be the 16th of January...roughly 8pm ish :)
busterboy
02-01-2007, 22:19
Great idea Ian and a big thanks to you for this generous offer..:clap:
My entry now in..:naughty:
Great Idea... he could hardly offer a 50mm F1.8 as the prize, as just about everyone here has bought one from him! ;)
busterboy
03-01-2007, 22:08
Great Idea... he could hardly offer a 50mm F1.8 as the prize, as just about everyone here has bought one from him! ;)
How about a 500mm f.4L..:thumbs:
Not many of those around..:lol:
namllihs
06-01-2007, 08:57
:thumbs: Ian :thumbs:
I've bought most of my gear from him. I'd have preferred a 600f4L IS (a mate of mine bought one from him and it's a monster lens!!!).
Three cheers for Ian though. Great seller. :woot:
JD
he messaged me earlier about getting me a 15mm fisheye for cheaper, unfortuantly id just bought one! seems like a top guy from what ive witnessed though.
ps: just entered mine.
gonna close this soon people, it might well be tomorrow morning though if marcel doesnt swoopp in soon!
Right comp now closed, to pick your favourite, PM me your top 3 and i will collate the votes. voting closes Sunday at midnight!
Great set of photos people, got my 3 votes in!
Doh. Totally forgot about this :( Good luck everyone :)
Some great shots in there guys. Hard choice!
Doh. Totally forgot about this :( Good luck everyone :)
Dont worry Pete, Ian has kindly offered to run another mini comp again soon :thumbs:
? When do we find out the results ? :)
DaveFeeder
22-01-2007, 10:24
? When do we find out the results ? :)
I was just about to post the same thing!
How exciting!
Good luck to everyone, some amazing shots in this competition.
oops! having just looked again, I didn't notice that there were 2 pages to the gallery when I voted.
Think I flicked through using the arrows, so as far as I can see I got all the pics...... phew!
will have the results up for you tonight chaps and chapesses, those of you that sent your votes to marcel, silly billys...he forwarded them all to me
oops! having just looked again, I didn't notice that there were 2 pages to the gallery when I voted.
Set up the page so you can view 30 per page. I paniced for a moment! But I saw them all. Phew!
i will announce the winner of this later, ive pm'd steep to see if he wants to amend his vote as he missed page 2, once i get that back i will announce the result...
well the results are in!
Congratulations(again) to Mr THX!
Mr THX just pipped NeonPollen to the prize, very close there!
Well done to everyone who entered, and a huge thanks to Kerso for his Generosity, watch out for another one coming soon.
Mr THX - 14points
Neonpollen - 12points
Torpedo - 11points
Milestone - 10points
EOS JD - 8points
quite close there. All the shots were excellent, and picking out3 was never going to be easy, so thanks to all that entered and all that voted!
Spiffing job everyone I think, especially Mr_THX :D
TheRedUn
22-01-2007, 18:52
Well done Mr THX :thumbs:
Congrats Mr THX! :thumbs:
The defence of his title starts well :) Congrats Sir.
kissfoto
22-01-2007, 19:28
Congratulation, well deserved. Kissfoto :thumbs:
photostar_1
22-01-2007, 19:30
Well done! :clap:
neonpollen
22-01-2007, 19:55
Congrats to Mr_THX, deserved winner.
Congrats to THX! I`m sorry, I totally missed voting for this, my apologies.
Nice one mate, well done. All a bit deja vu this :)
Well done Sir. A deserving winner :thumbs:
Milestone
22-01-2007, 20:43
Well done Mr THX. :clap: I'll have to try harder next time :D
richmond
22-01-2007, 20:51
Damn! I missed the whole thing :bang:
Well done to all the entrants. :clap: :clap:
Congratulations Mr THX ... I think winning malarky is becoming a bit of a habit for you :D
:clap: Great News....... thank you all for the kind words.
Top efforts and well done to Neonpollen, Torpedo, Milestone and EOS JD.
:thumbs:
Well done to you. Outstanding image.
Well done Mr T :)
I didn't vote as I was waiting for the 'we will put up a poll for voting' thread to appear. Teach me not to keep reading the threads for changes of plan ;)
Forbiddenbiker
22-01-2007, 22:03
Missed all this, some cracking entries, wow.
congrats Mr T, ... again. :D :thumbs:
DaveFeeder
22-01-2007, 23:18
Congrats.
Think we should ban him from entering anything else, it gives the rest of us a chance :lol: :razz:
nelly3164
24-01-2007, 17:57
:thumbs: well done!:thumbs:
Brassneck
24-01-2007, 20:27
Well done
Well done Chris, I am sending card with your lens today. I am going to give Marcel a shout later this month and run another competition. Thanks to all entrants.
Regards Ian.
Well done
just placed my order for a nifty fifty 1.8
really hope this brings back my enthusiasm for photography
currently have a canon 300d with the kit lens an lots of blury pics :(
Milestone
31-01-2007, 15:09
just placed my order for a nifty fifty 1.8
really hope this brings back my enthusiasm for photography
currently have a canon 300d with the kit lens an lots of blury pics :(
Not sure what this has to do with the competition :thinking:
Anyway i'm sure you'll enjoy the lens.:p
well done all that entered especially MR THX
COngrats Mr THX and everyone else who entered :)
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