RWI photo contest for novices; with prizes!

[spider87]

nice one spidey, I alway loved the yatchmaster but the reason for not getting it is because I love the sea dweller more!!!

I was going to get a submariner then I saw the yachty on josh's(I think) site and fell in love with it but it was so expensive so when I saw fakey offering it for $110 already serviced (and come on it was made by fakey) I was like OMGEEEE MUST HAVE lol

Thanks for the compliments mreynolds I haven't directly done it but you definitely deserve to have your pics complimented on also they are amazing. Nice watch too.

PIX, I definitely agree, this place is nothing without eyecandy. BUT when is this contest going to be announced?? lol

 

[PHicks]

Ok the results are in!

We have 4 prizes:
A rather nice looking Uboat from LevelManRoger.
A used but nice B&R 02 courtesy of you-know-who.
A beautiful Dupont Roller courtesy of our man Pix.
A Festina quartz 'gen' also from our photo expert Pix.

Before I announce the winners I would just like to thank everyone that participated; it has been great fun. The quality of pictures has not only been great but we have seen a dramatic improvement over the course of this contest.

So, without further ado:

Our first place winner is Mreynolds767. His pre-competition example was not great (that's as nice as I can put it), but his competition follow ups were superb. With no previous experience he mastered using Photoshop and wowed everyone with some fantastic shots. Congratulations Mreynolds767, looking forward to seeing a lot more of these.

Second place goes to Spider87. His enthusiasm for this contest has kept us amused for the past month. He starts off with a video camera and takes an out of focus shot of half a watch face. By the end of this post he's invested in a new camera, played around with editing, introduced us to all his cute Star Wars mini's, invited everyone from RWI to his wedding, shown us what a Walmart pocket watch looks like from inside and driven Fakey crazy with his desire to get his new watch delivered 2 days before he ordered it so that he can put in a new entry.

Third prize goes to Alviando. He starts off with 20 posts and at last call he's up to 475 and giving good advice to newcomers. Thanks for your input and great support to others Alviando.

Fourth place goes to DrWatch. Unfortunately the links to DrWatch's photo's is currently broken but as luck would have it we managed to get a peek before they went down. Might want to fix that Dr!

So there we have it. I mentioned earlier that winners can choose their prizes but I've changed my mind and decided to let Spider87 have the Uboat since he mentioned, in passing (multiple times), that he rather liked it. I hope nobody get's offended by that. If the rest of you guys let me know the order of the remaining 3 prizes you want I will contact Pix and arrange delivery. PM me with your delivery addresses and I will do my best to arrange things.

It's been a blast guys...

 

[spider87]

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THANKS PHICKS,PIX AND D4M!!! YOU guys ROCK!!!

Oh and fakey too just because I am still wearing my watch and love it!! HOWEVER IT CAN"T WAIT TO BE PLACED IN ROTATION WITH THAT UBOAT!!!!!

PMing you my address now!

THANK YOU SO MUCH GUYS THIS HAS BEEN SO MUCH FUN!!!!

I have had such a great time not only just the fun of the competition but also because it not only allowed me to experiment and better my pictures. But also exercise my creative side in trying to find something to keep you guys interested for an entire month lol. THank you soo much guys!!!!

Also, congrats everyone. mreynolds deserved the first prize his pics were amazing. Alviando and DrWatch your pics were awesome too.

Congratulations everyone!!!!! I'll post pics here and elsewhere on this forum when my prize comes

 

[Rogerthat]

Yes, thank you very much. I appreciate all of the positive feedback,tips and the competition.
It is really cool to see the improvements made from picture to picture.
I am starting a new thread in the eye candy with some pictures now becuase it seems my photobucket account ran out of bandwidth for the month. Opening a new account on photobucket now with a different email.

Great job all and again THANK YOU

 

[alvinado]

Congrats everyone is a winner!!!!!

I'll really loved the B&R but mreyolds will choose first!
So my choice is one of the two watches... lol

 

[TAGfan]

Sorry about that....I will have to look into what happened to my photos.... :?:

 

[alvinado]

Dr Watch, you change your name!!!!!

 

[TAGfan]

Dr Watch, you change your name!!!!!

Yes I did. Who knew there would be so many Dr's around here collecting watches !

 

[ThinkBachs]

Darn, and I just got my new camera... Hopefully there'll be another contest.

 

[Pix]

FYI, I'll ship the Quartz prize and the pen on Monday to the addresses you gave me.
And there's no problem to ship to Singapore

 

[alvinado]

Thank you Pix!!!

 

[rooster133]

This has been awesome. Congrats to the winners!!

 

[PHicks]

I'd just like to say thanks to LevelmanRoger. It was his lousy photo that started this competition. Unfortunately Roger got caught up in work issues and an injured back and so he was unable to participate. Hopefully he is on the road to recovery and will be joining us again soon.

When it arrives I'm sure Spider87 will take some great shots of his new Uboat and post them here. Hey, we could start a winners photo contest!

 

[Pix]

Hey, we could start a winners photo contest!

:mrgreen:

 

[alvinado]

I will post picture once it comes, this i promise!!!

 

[Pix]

Will ship on monday, count with about 2 weeks for Singapore.

For the US it will be 1 good week.

 

[spider87]

Sorry all currently photoshop is giving me hizzell and we're packing (we found a place to move to!! so we don't have to live with my parents anymore haha[i know sad]) so we're packing and moving quick! But here is the best pic with no editing I could get like I said I couldn't do any good cropping or anyhting like that because picasa is a fail on this comp and apparently photoshop decided it's picasa's biggest competitor in the fail competition but here is what I got!!!

 

[alvinado]

thats a nice watch spider... I look forward to more of your imagination...

 

[spider87]

Thanks alvi! And I also wanted to thank everyone else PHicks, Pix, D4m and of COURse LevelManRoger. This watch is awesome and it's going to make a great addition to my collection. Thank you very much guys I will continue to try to get this thing photoshopped at least so it's not so saturated lol.

Thanks guys!

 

[Pix]

As promised, the pen left for the Us yesterday (count with one week) and the quartz watch for Singapore too (count with about 2 weeks).