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And the Winner Is…

October 16, 2010 By Aaron Strout 3 Comments

Two weeks ago, I kicked off a photo contest on Flickr. We had about a dozen people participate and those people picked some 131 favorites out of the 5,217 that I’ve uploaded over the past several years. My original goal was to have my friend, Maury Postal (who just had his own gallery showing in NYC), pick the ten winners out of the 131. Unfortunately, after Maury picked his ten it left a three way tie. To resolve the matter I brought in another judge (and master photog) Ken Yeung.

What were the results? Well, I now have over 100 photos that are the cream of the crop. Even better, I have twenty pics that have been hand selected by two semi-pro photographers that I trust and respect. This is what we call curation (more on that topic in a future post). As much as I’d like to think that everyone visiting my Flickr account wants nothing more than to see ALL 5,000+ pictures, what they realistically want to see are the best of my photos. And now I can deliver that to them.

Let’s not forget about the most important part and that is the contest winner(s). There were actually two of them: the first was my favorite alien and avid Quick’n’Dirty podcast listener, Howie Goldfarb (aka @SkyPulseMedia). Howie had the most favorites selected (nine out of twenty) but when I went in and looked at how many pictures Howie had favorited during the first phase of the contest, I realized that he may have slightly exceeded the suggested number of ten choices. In the spirit of fairness, I decided that I would split the prize between Howie and Deards whose true identity is yet to be revealed (she picked six of the twenty finalists). That means Howie and Deards each get a $25 gift card of their choosing (iTunes or Starbucks).

Congratulations to the two winners. Thank you to our celebrity judges and a HUGE thank you to you all for participating and making this contest a success. In addition to Howie and Deards, the entrants included: Sheila Scarborough, Jim Storer, Jay Bryant, Darin Kirschner, Steve Golab, Liz Phillips, Tyson Goodridge, Helen Rittersporn and my mom, Martha Strout.

If you’d like to see the winners, the thumbnails are below. Or head on over here to see the final results.

A Crowdsourced Photo Contest (Prize = $50 Gift Card)

October 3, 2010 By Aaron Strout 5 Comments

I have a fun contest idea and I need your help.

Your job is to go in and tag 10 of my Flickr pictures that you think are my *BEST* work. Yes, this is totally subjective. But that’s the way art works, right?

The Rules

  • The contest will close next Friday at 3 PM ET (10/8). At that point, I will collect every picture that has been tagged as a “favorite.” Of those, I will take the top 50 or 100 ranked by number of favorites each picture has received.
  • I will then have my Maury Postal — a rock star photographer (he has his own gallery showing next week in NYC) — pick the top 10. Whomever has the most favorites in the top 10 wins.
  • In the event of a tie, we will either split the cash or I might pull in another guest judge to break the tie. Final decision will arrive on 10/13.

You in? Be sure that when you mark something as favorite, there is a way I can contact you (either via Twitter or Facebook). Questions? Ping me at @aaronstrout.

The Sixth Photo Meme and More Fun with Memes!

January 3, 2009 By Aaron Strout Leave a Comment

Ever heard the term, “you reap what you sew?” Well, I guess I deserve to be tagged in not just one, but TWO games of meme tag by friends, Gradon Tripp and Jennifer Leggio. This particular post is fulfilling on my obligation to Mr. Tripp. The other post will be fulfilled over on Facebook and is building on a meme that I tagged Jennifer with earlier i.e. 7 things you may or may not want to know about me. My task in this case is to come up with 25 things.

Gradon’s game of meme tage is a little bit simpler because all I have to do is pick the sixth picture on the sixth page of Flickr. It would have been nice if I could have picked a picture of my choosing – if so, I may have gone with something like below (I took it earlier this week up in Maine). It was 3 degrees that day and the wind was blowing 40-50 mph).

Instead, we got this one which is not one of my most exciting. It’s just a family picture from a recent holiday party up at my parent’s cabin. I guess that’s part of the fun of this meme tag is that who knows what you’ll get when you choose.
With that said, I’m off to the tagging part of this post. For my six, I’m going to tap:
  • Rob Everton aka @foolthrottle
  • Colin Browning
  • Mack Collier
  • Marc Cusherman aka @thekush
  • Doug Wick
  • Scott Hepburn

Enjoy! Make sure you return the favor.

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