After several days of deliberations, smoke is visible from the roof and the results are here!

Most importantly, many thank-yous to everyone who entered: the quality has been very high and it was a very close-run decision in the end.

The judging was done by the five administrators of AditNow, with photographs being chosen from a shortlist and listed in order of preference, with the totals then collated to produce the final result.

Photographs ranked in first place by the individual judges were given a slightly higher weighting and at the final count, there was very little between the top three photographs. Three runners-up considered of high merit are also included.

One thing that does jump out is where the photographs were taken: the top two were both taken at Carrock Wolframite mine; and the remaining four were all taken in lead mines, with two of these being in Rampgill!

And so: the results...


FIRST PLACE

Jimbo - Carrock Wolframite Mine

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The prize for first place is a StenLight S7 Headlamp, sponsored by Excellent Stuff http://www.excellentstuff.co.uk/ .


SECOND PLACE

Blackshiver - Carrock Wolframite Mine

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The prize for second place is a Fenix TK10 Flashlight, sponsored by ABC Powermarine http://www.abcstore.co.uk/default.asp .


THIRD PLACE

Sparty_Lea - Rampgill Lead Mine

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The Mike Moore prize for third place is a £40 worth of mining books, sponsored by Moore Books http://www.moorebooks.co.uk/ .


RUNNERS UP

LAP - Smallcleugh Lead Mine

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Mr.Mike - Burtree Pasture Lead Mine

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Heb - Rampgill Lead Mine

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The runners up will each receive a copy of their photograph framed and printed at full A4 size on glossy photo paper.

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Wow great pictures everyone, well done! All really good stuff :thumbup:

Seconded. Nice to see Cleveland dominating! 🙂

Excellent choices, well done and congratulations to all the winners.

Peter.

I have to confess to being extremely pleased and honoured to see a picture of mine up there among such great competition.

Thanks very much to everyone who was involved in running the competition, to the judges and especially the sponsors for providing such excellent prizes!

Personally I also owe thanks to several of the members of Aditnow who regularly post fantastic photographs to the database for inspiring me to take a bit more trouble with my own picture taking.

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some good un's there! well done all :thumbsup:

Well done "Jimbo" a great Cleveland one-two!
Just one thing, are you really sure your winning picture is of Carrock and not Spa Wood 😉
Sparty_lea - never mind all that "thanks to" rubbish. You are an inspiration to the guy's in the North East. Indeed it was you that converted me from Caving to Mine-Exploring when we were locked out of the caves during foot and mouth.
Keep up the good work in Weardale.

Well done "Jimbo" a great Cleveland one-two!
Just one thing, are you really sure your winning picture is of Carrock and not Spa Wood 😉
Sparty_lea - never mind all that "thanks to" rubbish. You are an inspiration to the guy's in the North East. Indeed it was you that converted me from Caving to Mine-Exploring when we were locked out of the caves during foot and mouth.
Keep up the good work in Weardale.

I agree! It was Sparty Lea that inspired me to try backlighting my photos instead of just lighting from the front. Now I am addicted to playing with lights and cameras :thumbsup:

Indeed it was you that converted me from Caving to Mine-Exploring when we were locked out of the caves during foot and mouth.
Keep up the good work in Weardale.

😉 Glad if I helped you see the light! No offense to cavers but mines are far more interesting.

As to the rest though- my underground photographs were pretty awful before I joined Aditnow and saw what could be done with a bit of effort.

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Fabulous pics.... All should be proud and as a general rule pics on this site are the best, I don't get underground much these days and certainly not to the places you all get so a big thanks for sharing your different angles on the subject!!!
:thumbsup: :flowers:

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Excellent pictures and well done to all.
All the photos' are superb and it must have been difficult to choose a winner. Mind you, the winning pic is just so atmospheric....it's like being there!
Five stars.!!!!!

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Well done everybody, competitors, judges and prize sponsors.
Amazing pictures, thank you. :thumbsup:

Wow I’m completely speechless & honoured to see my picture winning this competition; I never expected it at all 😮 Sorry I didn’t reply sooner but my computer at home packed up last week (don’t worry I managed to recover all my photos !!!) & I have been having to log on using a wireless mobile connection (piece of cr*p) in the site office at work so have only just noticed this.

Just to echo what Sparty has said, a big thank you to everyone who entered the competition, the five judges and especially the sponsors for providing such excellent prizes, looks like I have no excuse not to ditch the trusty Oldham now 😉

I must also say a big thank you to Ferret & J who assisted with the lighting on that photo :thumbup:

Just a couple of years ago I was taking most of my photos with a point & shoot but it was the quality of the photographs regularly posted by several contributors to Aditnow & Mine-Explorer (in particular Tony Holland & Miles) that really inspired me to spend more time & effort on my own photos, so thanks again guys I owe you one :flowers:

Jim

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Well done lads & lass, a very good set of photos all round, & congratulations Jimbo on winning. :thumbsup:

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Well done all. Really great to see people taking an interest in these old mines and taking fantastic photos.
Keep up the good work.

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With the Snow Photo comp it reminded me that I have still not received my framed photo for the runner up prise.

Any news on it?

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You're not wrong. Sorry. I've been away for the last 3 week, meant to sort them out before I came away but in the too many things got in the way. Am back on Monday and will definitely get them printed and sent off next week. Sorry for the delay :flowers:

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Away for three weeks I am obviously in the wrong job!! But don't feel guillty

Cheers

Mike

Away for three weeks I am obviously in the wrong job!! But don't feel guillty

Cheers

Mike

Ah, but the jury is out on whether I've got one to come back to :lol: :lol:

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The eagle eyed will notice that the photo comp has reappeared on the home page. This isn't a mistake, it's because I never got around to doing a results page until now so I've linked it from the home page. You can see the winning photos here: http://www.aditnow.co.uk/static/photocomp2008results.aspx 

Framed prints will be sent out (finally) at the weekend. Sorry for the delay.

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