When Robert Swetz asked me to help him out with his contest, Memories at Active Rain, I did not know what I was getting into! Judging all these wonderful entries was very difficult for everyone. I did love reading them all and learning more about the Active Rain members who posted. Thank you so much to everyone who entered this contest.
The prizes are:
3000 for first
2000 for second
1000 for third
200 for every entry (in addition to the points you got for posting the blog)
And my favorite:
In addition to the points that will be awarded to the winners starting with (fourth) place to (twenty fifth) place, these winners will be given a signed photograph print from Robert Swetz (11x14) in size and mailed directly to you.
That is a total of 21 photo prints for winners! I'd trade my points for that any day. I have a signed photo from Robert, it's truly a work of art.
So, the winners are:
First place: Marchel Peterson
Marchel's post tied her Active Rain points memories to real life events. I remember her 300,000 points and our Son out of Iraq post and remember being so relieved for her family that her son was home and safe.
Second place: Lori Cain
Lori's post was about a mistake that she made and shared here on Active Rain. C Tann Starr featured her mistake in Club Chaos and hilarity ensued. That's when Lori finally felt at home on Active Rain, the day her fellow rainers laughed WITH her.
Third Place: Clint Miller
Clint's post is very personal. He shared with us his life's journey and was very open about choices he's made along the way. Thank you Clint for reminding us to be thankful and to honor our paths.
In no particular order, the winners of a signed photograph from Robert Swetz (click their name to view their contest entry, they are all very good):
Jason Crouch
Donna Harris
Robin Rogers
Martha Brown
Russel Ray
Judi Barrett
Matt Stigliano
Steve Shatsky
Kevin and Monica Ray
Michael Thornton
Sheldon Neal
Tammy Lankford
Loreena Yeo
Maureen Megowan
Fernando Herboso
Lenn Harley
Matt Grohe
Norma Toering
Al and Peggy Cunningham
Chris Ann Cleland
Debra Walsh
Congratulations to all our winners and all our participants. You ALL did a great job, you made it very difficult to choose only a few winning entries!
You can shop for your photographs by visiting www.SearchMyPics.com or visiting Robert's blog on Active Rain. Have fun shopping! I have one at my house and I LOVE it. Be prepared to spend some time there, there is a lot of variety and so many to choose from. Then simply email Robert and he'll take care of the rest.
- offering website design, maintenance, hosting and virtual assistance
I read the first 2. I'm off to read Clint's. It's so nice to learn so much about others through a contest. We should have more of these.
Congratulations to the winners! This was a fun contest reading about others memories and finding so many similarities and some differences as well!
Thanks for posting this Chris!
Loreena, I agree, it was a fun contest.
Silvia - I had no idea how hard it would be to choose! Everyone's Memories at Active Rain were great.
You're welcome Susan!
Chris, Congratulations to all the winners and those who entered. It looks like I missed some good reading and will have to catch up!
Yahoo - I'm off to shop for my print! Congrats to all who entered! Also off to read the few that I missed!
Thank you Chris and Robert!!
Oh my gosh I can't believe I won 1st place!!! It is REALLY my son that won first place though and what a relief it is to have him home and a college student. He is getting all A's and to say I'm proud would be putting it mildly. I had no idea he was so good at math.
Thanks for putting all the entries in one place; I will check them out.
Evening Chris, You really had some excellent material to sort out ! Well done !
This was an interesting contest. Not having been here very long my memories are short. No I mean at my age I can't remember anything.
Chris ~ I hope you do not mine my re-blogging but I wanted to help share the winning posts and those that entered this contest. They are all worth taking the time to read.
How is your other contest coming along?
Chris - I have (flagged) this post because I would like members and the winners of the contest to know what they have won and why.
This post should also be featured because the contest is all about Activerain and the "Memories" within the network, also the points that were awarded via (Bob Stewart).
I will come back to this post with more comments later tonight or tomorrow morning!
Robert Swetz
Congratulations to all the winners! I missed the deadline for getting one in but I am going to read all entries.
Chris - It looks like nobody is interested in claiming their prizes, maybe we will let someone else have them that might be more interested (kidding)!
VB ;o)
Robert...Hold the phone. :-)
Im VERY interested in claiming my prize....the question is...where are the photos that I get to choose from?
Yeah...nevermind...found the link. Im an idiot...lol
I want my-00049.jpg from Myanmar, please!!
Congratulations to the winners! It was a fun contest! These are all worth the time to read and I'm starting right down the list!
Wow, I am a runner-up and I get to choose a photo from Robert's amazing collection? That has made my day.
Congratulations to Marchel, Lori, and Clint! Your posts were terrific.
Cheers,
Robin
I've got to catch up on this too - but kudos to all those who participated
Wow, Hi everyone! We had so many great entries and they are all worth reading. I will edit this post to include links to each and every one.
Terrie - Of course I don't mind! : )
Hi Chris: Thanks to you and Robert for this great contest. I can't wait to read the posts!!!
So Chris here I am clicking on your blog to write some comments and WOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOO! What a nice surprise!!! I am off to thank Bob now.........!!!
I love when I comment as someone else. UGH
You're welcome Jane, happy reading.
Congratulations Debra, you'll love your photo! I'm curious to know which ones everyone chooses.
Robert - don't give up on me. Hubby and I are photo shopping online together tonight (he's working @ the office and I'm @ home). We have very different tastes, but we'll decide tonight!
Robert, I will not be able to look until tomorrow evening but I'm excited about the photograph as I love your photography.
Hi Lori & Marchel - Happy photo shopping! I hope you come back and share which one you choose. I love all of Robert's photos.
Wow- some great stories for sure and congratulations to all the winners. I'm late clicking on this post as I have been working 18 hour days (no kidding) with all the crazy and unsual things going on. But the good thing is that I am happy to be doing so. Look forward to choosing my print IF I am not too late in doing so.
After all those bribes I sent to Vegas Bob and I still didn't win. I wonder if that's because of you. LOL
Hi Chris! Great contest and CONGRATULATIONS to the winners--they're ALL winners here in the Rain, that's for sure!
Congratulations to the winner. It is so nice to learn more about your colleagues and see a little piece of their soul.
Congratulations to all! I'll have to bookmark this and read all the great posts!!
Chris - Congrats on the feature and thank you so much for your help, it was so much fun and now I have to get busy and send out photo prints to the winners. It sounds like the top three winners want photograph also, wow you give them an inch and they take a mile.
Being the nice guy that I am I will will see what I can do for those top three winners and again I would like to that everyone for playing!
Robert Swetz
Chris, what wonderful writing you got with your contest! I still have a lot of reading to do. I'm glad to be back in the saddle...it's been a while. I missed you and all my AR friends.
Chris Any one of the three could have made first place
It was a great idea to have this contest - some great examples of what the AR community has meant to us.
This was a great contest, but I couldn't participate in this one. Congratulations to the winners and the 21 others who get a signed photograph by Robert Swetz.
I didn't realize I was so behind in comments! Sorry!
Martha - I'm sure you're not too late!
Russel - I guess you should have been bribing me too! Just kidding, it was VERY hard to choose winners, everyone was so great.
Debe, I agree!
Sybil - It was very nice, thank you!
Carla - I think you'll enjoy them.
Robert, thank you for thinking of me to help with this fun contest. The winners are all very lucky to receive one of your photos, I love mine. (I didn't even know I was featured, thanks to your wonderful contest!)
Deb - We've missed you too, and now you're blonde (looks good)! : ) Glad to see you back.
Karen - I agree!
Brian - Robert has lots of great ideas, I just don't know how he finds the time to implement them.
Rebecca - Maybe next time you will be able to participate.
Thanks for the post Chris. I'll have to go check out the articles... I meant to enter myself and it just slipped my mind.
I know how that goes Michael.
Ah, yes, misty water-colored memories. Of the way we were ... at AR.
Chris - it's been so busy I appreciate you posting this....I have some reading to do from the winners and the other entries!
Way to go Chris - so cool you got to do this.
Congratulations to all! It was fun.
Patricia/Seacoast NH
There were a lot of good entries in this contest, and I agree the pictures are even better than the points.
Congratulations to all the winners! It will be fun reading about all of the memories that we all developed in our time here!
I want to also thank everyone for there comments to Chris, she is a wonderful person and here is a photo of me keeping an eye on everyone around the Activerain Network!
Robert Swetz (Vegas Bob)
Hi everyone! I hope you have fun reading our entries, they really were good. This was my first time on this side of a contest, it was a lot of work and very difficult choosing winners! But it was fun.
Thank you very much Robert! You are a wonderful person too. Don't fall off that branch!
Thank you Chris and now more Activerain members will have my work hanging on their walls and not on tree branches!