"MM PHOTOGRAPHER of the YEAR 2012" ~VOTE~ 1/29-2/3
WELCOME to Model Mayhem's PHOTOGRAPHER of the Year 2012 competition!
We are presenting to you all of the MM PHOTOGRAPHER of the Week WINNERS for the year 2012! We ask you to VOTE in accordance with the rules that are standard among our forum contests so that all votes may be counted and hopefully none will be disqualified. If in doubt please refer to "Thee Rules" on the opening page of our weekly contests which you will find behind the "contests" button in the upper menu bar. *NO VOTE STACKING* Contestants~If you solicit votes YOU WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. You will notice that some of our contestants have multiple wins and we are displaying all of their winning banners.
*VOTE BY NUMBER (#) Each winning PHOTOGRAPHER has ONE designated number repeated on all of their banners. For this reason the NUMBERS you see here will not be listed in numerical order.
PLEASE VOTE NOW for your favorite PHOTOGRAPHER and we wish the best of luck to all of our worthy 2012 weekly winners! VOTING ENDS FEB. 3rd SUNDAY NIGHT Midnight PST (All votes entered after 11:59pm on 2/3 will not be counted.)
*PRIZES and Medallion AWARDS will be offered at three levels.
GOLD=1st Place/ SILVER=2nd Place/ BRONZE=3rd Place
*GOLD wins MM VIP Membership for ONE FULL YEAR
*SILVER wins MM VIP Membership for ONE FULL YEAR
*BRONZE wins MM VIP Membership for 1/2 YEAR
We'd like to thank Model Mayhem/Internet Brands for contributing these fine prizes!
We'd also like to thank our Contest Administrators BeeCee aka xandx, Milly aka Timillia, Ken Edgar and Steve aka SJH photography for contributing their talents throughout the year, year after year to keep our contests going strong! We appreciate all they do!
Composites and Banners: BeeCee, Timillia, Ken Edgar
Medallions: BeeCee
This was the hardest category for me and I came back to it several times. Based on the photos that won a 'Photographer of the Week' in 2012 my vote is for Stephen Thorne. I do have to mention Brightonion, Laura Dark, Alexey Tsvetkov and also Chris_Y as your work in this voting thread stood out to me as well.
I actually feel quite honored to even be listed as a contestant among all these amazing professionals. My vote goes to #6... Stephen Thorne... fantastic images all year long...
The two Stephens had me back and forth in my decision....
Going with #6 Stephen Thorne
(My humble opinion...this is a very confusing format for picking winners. There should be one listing for each nominee instead of by the week. Condense )