Congratulations Keck Contest Winners!

I'm pleased to announce the winners of the Keck Photo Contest:

David Jacobs

Melissa O'Shaughnessy

David Boyce

We'll have a Print Offer of all three of the winning prints, with the proceeds of the sales being the prize. (You'll see the winning images at that time.) The Grand Prize Winner, David Jacobs, also wins a week at a luxury condo in Hawaii courtesy of an anonymous reader (to whom many thanks).

In addition to the Contest Winners' Sale, we have two other Print Offers planned soon: One is a single, small silver print, called "The Card Game," the best or "signature" photo my 84-year-old father took during a lifetime as an enthusiastic amateur and semi-pro (a businessman, he wrote and illustrated articles for travel and food magazines on the side). The other is that we have an agreement in principle to offer some of the uncommonly beautiful, lyrical landscape work of Kate Kirkwood, with fine prints by Ctein.

We'll be doing the same thing again with the Contest Winners' Sale as we did with the Keck Contest. Any buyer of a print from that sale will be invited to submit work for a future sale*.

As I said before, I was very impressed both by the high average quality of the submissions and with readers' obvious printing skills. There were many outstanding submissions; choosing winners was uncommonly difficult. It was a satisfying experience for me to see so much nice work and so many beautiful prints (although I think my choices will be very controversial and will lead to much discussion. I hope no one's feelings will be hurt).

Thanks again to everyone who participated, and congratulations again to David J., Missy, and David B.

Mike

*The reason for the restriction is to limit the number of submissions. The 228 prints we received for the Keck Contest were about right for me to handle; an open submission might draw thousands of prints, which would overwhelm me.

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[R. A. Krajnyak]

Congratulations to the winners! Also, a big thanks to Mike for all the time and effort he put into the contest. 228 prints seems like a monumental task for one person to winnow down to three winners.

I must say I was both surprised and honored when I saw my name listed among the finalists. Thanks again, Mike and I look forward to seeing (and possibly purchasing) the winning prints...

[John]

Congratulations to the winners! I was happily surprised last week to see two of my images in the finalist list (wonder which two?). That actually was a major boost, Mike, because it was the first time I had submitted an image of mine to any contest and thus the first time that someone with a fine eye for photography judged my work. I was honored and now might actually do something with the better images on my hard drive instead of letting them linger there. So, thanks Mike!

[Bruce Bordner]

If I am arrogant enough to submit a print to you which happens to be printed at Costco... do you just laugh or what? I get (what I think are) good results when sending them a corrected and color-profiled file. Their B&W prints honestly look just like my silver prints from 1972 (after much work). I really don't print often enough to do it well at home - my inks dry out.

However, I imagine it would be hard to charge $$$ for a $3 Costco print - no matter how good it actually is... Is a better printing service available and appropriate?

[I only ask people to submit workprints, so a Costco print that meets your approval is fine for that. If the picture is chosen, we would evaluate the print and consider printing methods individually. --Mike]

[Rob Spring]

Mike,

The entire Keck contest process was great. The potential for recognition, a wonderful vacation and make money if your print is chosen one of the three finalists was quite a motivator. Like John and R. A. above, I was honored to have a couple of my prints among the finalists. Thanks Mike.

[Kenneth Tanaka]

I'm eager to see the winners.

[David Paterson]

I'd like to echo the sentiments expressed in the first two comments, starting with sincere congratulations to the winners. I (very rarely) enter contests, but always with the Zen precept "Expect Nothing!" very much in mind. So I was delighted (and a little relieved) to find my name on the shortlist - a very pleasing achievement in itself.

But I have a question and a suggestion. Mike - what do you intend to do with the 200+ prints, now presumably stacked around your house? Why not have a print sale? 50 bucks a print and the buyer takes pot luck - as the orders come in you just take the next print off the top of the stack. And you can recycle all that packaging!

[John Krumm]

Congratulations, and I'm excited about the next contest.

Mike, it increasingly sounds like you need an assistant, a Watson for Holmes, or something like that.

[Christopher Lane]

David Jacobs, Flagpole Swim. Please, please please. All right so I'm a DOM.

[Rod Thompson]

Kate Kirkwood and Ctein.....perrrfect.