Boastfulness is one of the least attractive human traits. I hope it is not one that I can customarily be accused of. Nonetheless, today I am in full egotistic, big-headed boasting mode. Oh look at me! Look at me! What a clever pudding I am! And why you ask is my heart so gaily bloated this merry October day?
Well, my physically attractive visitor, it is simply because once again I have won the geograph photo of the week competition! My winning picture was picked from 4,870 eligible images. And the reward? A car? A bag of money? A Caribbean holiday? A washing machine? No my friends...much better than any of those, I get to pick the next winner!
My winning photo has already appeared within the annals of this ancient blog. It was a picture I snapped a couple of weeks ago in the hamlet of Malcoff over on "the dark side" of the Pennine hills that thankfully separate my people from the Lancashire riff-raff. The light was lovely that morning - honey sharp in a way that midsummer light can never be. I had to crouch by the target drystone wall, in a position that would conceal a pictorially inappropriate chimney and aerial on the other side. The undulating autumnal curves of Whitemoor Clough were painted with dramatic October light.
When I got home and checked the day's photos on our computer, I thought - yes! That's a good 'un and my geograph compatriots thankfully agreed. Time for champagne methinks!...Gowans! Gowans! Bring a jerobaum up from the cellar my good man! This is the winning picture:-
It's a good image. It is one I would never have considered taking. Thanks, I like it. I love looking at the world through other folks lenses.
ReplyDeleteThe others must have been crap though. Post second through to fifth. Reserved congratulations.
"The others must have been crap though"...Am I damned by feint praise Adrian? Check out geograph to see that in the final shortlist there were many excellent pictures.
DeleteFantastic! I am raising a glass of vin rouge to you as I write. :)
ReplyDeleteDon't you mean you are necking cheap plonk from the bottle? Glug-glug!
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ReplyDeleteDidn't realise you were a "baby boomer" Helen!
DeleteOoh well done you YP. That is the pic I had eyed off a few posts ago wondering what was over the ridge ~ obviously fame and bragging rights :)
ReplyDeleteHey, I reckon that is a pretty good prize myself ~ to pick the next winner ~ more bragging rights!!
Wondering what was over the ridge.... That sounds like poetry to me Carol but pragmatically what is beyond that ridge is The Promised Land - Yorkshire!
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ReplyDeleteAhhh I've been telling Tony about this photo. Love it!
ReplyDeleteThank you Helen. You have excellent taste!
DeleteBeautiful picture. It enthralls me. The bottom where the stone fence is and the top where the cloudy sky is looks to me like a beautiful photograph. But the middle, the rolling hills and the different melding colors of the fields....well, that part looks like a painting to me. Thus, I am enthralled by your winning photograph. Good on you!
ReplyDeleteMama Thyme...You know your interest and support mean a lot to me. Like Helen, you have excellent taste!
DeleteWell, coming from Lancashire Riff-Raff, I perhaps shouldn't be congratulating you.....but I will because I have good manners and think the photo is really charming...well done YP.
ReplyDeleteHang on a minute Gracie Fields! I cannot blame you but when did you desert Lancashire?
DeleteNice photo Pudd, worthy of first prize.
ReplyDeleteLike your cuddly wife you have good taste Tony...oh and g'day mate!
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