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The winner has been determined. Thank you all for voting! To our guest judges, Shutterpanda's Mare Collantes and Karen dela Fuente, thanks for joining us! :) After a week of casting choices, a clear-cut winner jumped over the others and rose to YOLO glory. Our winning entry set a record of sorts by totaling 88 points (the highest in our contests so far) and winning by a margin of 48 points (the biggest so far). Without further ado, here are our Top 3 : 3rd Place : 20 points (13 votes) / Entry 2 / CHAEL SANTOS  ENTRY 2 2nd Place : 40 points (20 votes) / Entry 17 / MELBOURNE GALVEZ  ENTRY 17 1st Place : 88 points (31 votes) / Entry 12 / LHEO HALILI  ENTRY 12 Fact : Entry 12 was chosen by all voters except one... the contest winner himself (because you can't vote for your own photo), including 24 votes for first place. A dominant result that leaves no doubt which YOLO photo was the best. CONGRATULATIONS, LHEO HALILI!!! 1st Place gets an extra 10 points, 2nd Place gets 7, 3rd Place gets 5, 4th Place (undisclosed) gets 3, and 5th Place (also undisclosed) gets 2 points for the Photographer Of The Year competition. Participants automatically get 3 points for submitting entries. Till the next one! Keep on shooting! :) October 2014 Theme Contest "YOLO" Entries (Click thumbnails to view photos in full) Voting Period : 28 October - 3 November 2014 Votes can be viewed at Facebook comment box below. 26 entries. The most we've ever had for a photo contest. 7 days of voting. 47 votes cast. Only 1 winner. Congratulations to the participants for the pleasant entries, but the biggest congratulations are reserved for our top placers. This time, instead of revealing just the Top 3 like we usually do, we are posting the Top 5. Scroll down to find out our Top 5... 5th Place : 21 points (9 votes) / Entry 16 / TOPS ROQUE  ENTRY 16 4th Place : 22 points (10 votes) / Entry 6 / AWEL DIONISIO  ENTRY 6 3rd Place : 35 points (18 votes) / Entry 22 / NOEL CRISOSTOMO  ENTRY 22 2nd Place : 36 points (15 votes) / Entry 8 / JAY SALVADOR  ENTRY 8 1st Place : 54 points (23 votes) / Entry 17 / BRIAN SANTOS  ENTRY 17 CONGRATULATIONS, BRIAN SANTOS!!! Your entry bested 25 others and will now represent Hagonoy in the worldwide contest. May the odds be in your favor. 1st Place gets an extra 10 points, 2nd Place gets 7, 3rd Place gets 5, 4th Place gets 3, and 5th Place gets 2 points for the Photographer Of The Year competition. Participants automatically get 3 points for submitting entries. We'd like to thank our guest judges for this contest, 2013 Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk Contest grand winner Raul Policarpio and Hagonoy Municipal Administrator Jey Manlapaz. We value your input, sirs. On to our next contest! :) October 2014 PhotoMeet Contest "Scott Kelby Hagonoy Photowalk" Entries (Click thumbnails to view in full) Voting Period : 21-27 October 2014 Votes can be viewed at Facebook comment box below.  Registered participants of last weekend's Scott Kelby Photowalk in Hagonoy, Bulacan may now send entries for the worldwide photo contest. Please keep in mind that only registered walkers could join, since you won't be able to upload photos on the Scott Kelby site if you didn't register. Our regular photocontest guidelines still apply, but since we are doing this in conjunction with the Scott Kelby worldwide contest, there are a few extra details that we have to let you know. Please take a short time to read : To enter the contest, each walker MUST do BOTH of the following : 1.) Email a photo to [email protected] (this is for entering Focus Bulacan's contest) 2.) Log-in and upload the same photo to our Scott Kelby Hagonoy photowalk site : http://kelbyone.com/photowalk/walk/hagonoy-central-luzon-philippines/ (this is for entering the worldwide contest) Basically, what we will do is hold a photocontest of our own, with the winner being selected by the photowalk leader as Hagonoy's official entry to the worldwide contest. Additional rules, consistent with the Scott Kelby guidelines : - You have to submit and upload the SAME photo. You can't have different photos as your entry. - Photos submitted to the contest must be taken during the time of our walk. You can't come back to the location of the walk later (or show up earlier) and take more pictures. (This is why we asked you to make sure your camera's time and date settings are correct.) - Collages aren't allowed because technically you're submitting more than one image. - Photos that are submitted can be edited, but can't include anything that wasn't taken during the walk. For example, you can't drop in a sky that was taken on a different day. You can edit images to make them black and white, infrared, add contrast and saturation, remove distracting elements, create HDR images and panoramas, or use plug-ins. - The suggested photo dimensions are 1000px on the longest side at 72dpi, and the maximum file size is 1 MB. - Deadline of email submission is Monday, October 20, 2014 at 11:59PM. Deadline of upload to the Scott Kelby site is Monday, October 27, 2014 at 11:59PM. Both are Philippine times. Why is the Focus email deadline a week earlier than the upload deadline? Because contest voting takes a week, to determine a winner which the walk leader could select. Kindly follow these guidelines and you're all set. Again, thanks to everyone who joined the photowalk. We look forward to your entries. The best of luck! :) (For further question or clarification, drop a comment in the Facebook box below.) One of our most competitive contests, definitely. 1st to 4th place were really close. In the end, determining the winner came down to a single point. So who won? Scroll down to find out. 3rd Place : 26 points (12 votes) / Entry 8 / GILBERT FAJARDO  ENTRY 8 2nd Place : 29 points (16 votes) / Entry 13 / NOEL CRISOSTOMO  ENTRY 13 1st Place : 30 points (12 votes) / Entry 5 / JULIUS CALZO  ENTRY 5 CONGRATULATIONS, JULIUS CALZO! A hard-fought victory but definitely well-deserved. Thanks again to the people of San Rafael for your wonderful Angel Festival, and our guest judges Rodel Fronda and Juris Roxas for helping us pick the winners. :) 1st Place gets an extra 10 points, 2nd Place gets 7, 3rd Place gets 5, 4th Place (undisclosed) gets 3, and 5th Place (also undisclosed) gets 2 points for the Photographer Of The Year competition. Participants automatically get 3 points for submitting entries. Our next contest shall be the Scott Kelby photowalk competition. September 2014 PhotoMeet Contest "Angel Festival" entries (Click thumbnails to view in full) Voting Period : 4-9 October 2014 Votes can be viewed at Facebook comment box below. |
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