Foo - June 2012 Foo Photo Contest - We have a winner!

The theme for June is Daybreak, chosen by April's winner, macfred.

Rules:
Theme: Daybreak
- You must be the photographer
- One photo per person per theme
- Try to make the photo recent

Good luck everyone!

How recent? I've got a damn nice picture from June 2010, but it's worth it!

How recent? I've got a damn nice picture from June 2010, but it's worth it!

C'mon -
let us see your pic ...

greets
mac

OK. Purple Mountain Majesty. Pikes Peak at dawn - the inspiration for that phrase in America the Beautiful.

http://www.joelandtrish.net/picstorage/Purple%20Mountain%20Majesty.jpg

Dawn on Lake Mineral Wells, Mineral Wells State Park - May 2012

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-RA5Db6mUvUo/T7aG-BNewPI/AAAAAAAAHOs/DEz0NcjmZwA/s912/IMG_4082.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7239/6955551586_a33fb7557b_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40275249@N04/6955551586/)
Here comes the morning ( it's been a long night ) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40275249@N04/6955551586/) by macfred64 (http://www.flickr.com/people/40275249@N04/), on Flickr

great one, cuda2k !!

Just took this two weeks ago:

http://tuxbailey.zenfolio.com/img/s3/v44/p662276705-5.jpg

This is tough one ... I try not to be awake at daybreak.

I've got some really old ones from when I was doing overnight randonnees.

Most of my dawn pics are taken on the way to work. I pass this field every morning and sometimes stop for a pic when the clouds and light are especially nice.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7082/7156225075_b4db0177cb_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yospiff/7156225075/)

Sunrise on the St Johns River.
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb377/tizeye1/DSC_9775.jpg

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-X__0Vy9n_pw/T87EN6NzVaI/AAAAAAAAG3o/BCauGPOT-7c/s800/SAM_1845.JPG
Sunrise over the Kaikoura peninsula. Taken on Queen's Birthday Weekend, Sun 3rd June 2012.

Awesome. Unfortunately, most of my morning photos are too old to work for this.

Awesome. Unfortunately, most of my morning photos are too old to work for this.
You know what? I take that back. All my early morning landscapes are super old, but think I'll go a different way with the daybreak theme and post a picture from an early morning of mine.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-PWL9sGdIcY4/T7k8o-QrIyI/AAAAAAAAQXA/bDi5XT2KXyo/s912/P1070040.JPG

Taken in the pasture across the road from my house 5:45 a.m. June 4, 2012

http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd444/arkansasgal/This%20and%20That%20in%20the%20Arkansas%20Ozarks/017.jpg

*bump*

Sunrise officially occurred a couple hours before this photo was taken, but in the mountains, the sun doesn't peek over and between the mountains until sometime later. The sun had risen just enough to light the top of the mountain and clear the fog a little bit.


http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2410/1519678505_ec3a6e93df_z.jpg?zz=1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/machka-bb/sets/72157602324692010/)

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o260/TomStormcrowe/100_0170.jpg

Lake Wawasee Sunrise, last weekend.

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Daybreak over Berne, Switzerland

*bump*

Tomorrow is the last day to post photos!

Time to vote! List your 3 favorites. Votes will be counted on Friday.

cuda2k
Tom Stormcrowe
Macfred

Skiahh
Machka
Stormcrowe

and an honorable mention for himespau for really good bed head.

cuda2k
yo spiff
macfred

- tizeye
- himespau
- cuda2k

greets
mac

Excellent shots everyone!

macfred
tuxbailey
arkansasgal

cuda
tux
tizeye

cuda2k
Machka
tuxbailey

Great shots everyone, really difficult to pick my favs this month. That said:

Yo Spiff
Machka
tizeye

Arkansasgirl
Gnome
Yo Spiff

artkansasgal
Yo Spiff
Tom Stormcrowe

Just a reminder that votes will be counted tonight!

And the winner is ... cuda2k! Congratulations, you get to choose the theme for August.

Second place: Yo Spiff
Multi-tie for third: Tom Stormcrowe, macfred, Machka, tizeye, tuxbailey and artkansasgal.

Great job everyone!

Wow, didn't expect to win this one, voting looked really tight with some great entries all around. Thanks all. I'll put some thought into an August theme and get it over to CbadRider soon. :beer:

Thanks!