2014 Archive - Re:Photo Competition Winners (2014 Calendar)

[Lynda Bradford]

The photos in the QE2 in her Element photo competition were just fantastic! 

We had 47 entries and I was amazed at the selection of photos for this theme.  We had forty-four members voting and their choice of winning photo is:

"Beauty Waiting for Me"  by Edward Hickson. 


This was such a close contest that we had four runners up:

Down - Hamburger


Liverpool calling (home again) - Shipnshore


Full Speed Ahead! - Bob C


In Flaam - Mike White


Congratulations to the winner and runners up and thank-you to everyone who gave us the opportunity to see once again QE2 in her element through your photos. 

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

Congratulations to all concerned! The photo competition keeps getting better and better.

I love seeing all these pictures, and we are assembling a wonderful collection of QE2 images, some of them going well back in time. I am so grateful to those (such as Bob C) who take the trouble to scan the older pictures and enter them, so that we all can see them here. From my own experience I know how time consuming that is... and how rewarding!

[Rod]

All amazing pics. VERY well done to all those that took part, even if you did not win!

[Lynda Bradford]

The winner of the August competition Hamburger with his photo Look back and feel the power and the speed, had very kindly offered the prize to the runner up Harev.   

Thank-you to Hamburger and a big thank-you to Cunard for supplying the prize. 

It is a lovely book, which I hope Harev will enjoy.   

[Lynda Bradford]

The photos from the Photo Competition give us an opportunity to share our QE2 experience.  Thank-you to everyone who participation in the October competition "QE2 at Night".  The thirty-eight photos photos certainly gave us a difficulty choice as they were all so good. 

Congratulation to LegendOfTheSeas, who had the winning photo with 9.3% of the vote:

Colourful send off


and also to the runner up Stowaway 2K with 8.3% of the vote:

710


You can see the results of all the voting here:
https://www.theqe2story.com/forum/index.php/topic,4665.0.html

[Cunarder Man]

Congratulations, great pictures - worthy winners!

[LegendOfTheSeas]

Wow, I didn't expect to win. Many thanks to those who voted. 

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

Congratulations to you, LegendOfTheSeas!

I like the way the photo shows QE2 in relief... it's a beautifully composed picture. Did you take it from another ship?

And stowaway 2k -- I can almost hear the hum of her engines and smell her fuel when looking at your picture.

What a splendid collection we had again for this theme, with a huge variety of entries. Many thanks to all who entered and to all who voted -- what makes this competition so enjoyable, is that it is the work of all of us .

[LegendOfTheSeas]

Thanks Isabelle. Yes, I was on the Red Funnel ferry Red Eagle, which was doing a special evening cruise for the event.

[Lynda Bradford]

The winning photo of the November Competition with 22.5% of the votes was "Like a Party ..." submitted by Hamburger. Congratulations on winning and thank-you for this reminder of how like a party it was on the decks of QE2.

like a party...


The runner up with 8.5% of the votes was "QE2 Departure Party 11 November 2008" submitted by Cunarder Man.

QE2 Departure Party 11 November 2008


Thank-you to everyone who submitted photos and voted.  I enjoyed the reminder of the party feeling onboard QE2 and I hope you did too.

[Lynda Bradford]

The winner for the December competition "QE2 Ports of Call" is QE2 in New York, is the photo submitted by Cunarder Man "QE2 in NYC" which had 15.8% of the votes.

Congratulations to Cunarder Man and thank-you for sharing this photo for all to see.

QE2 in NYC


The runner up with 7.5% of the votes was "QE2's last visit to the River Clyde ..." submitted by Grill Britannia.  Another fantastic photo.  Congratulations!

QE2's Last visit to the River Clyde on Sunday 5th October 2008



35 photos were submitted to the competition and 42 members voted.  Thank-you again to everyone who contributed to this fun competition that gives us an opportunity to see some wonderful photos of QE2.

[Lynda Bradford]

The winner of the January Photo of the Month competition was Stowaway 2K with his photo "QE2 Icy Hull". 



Forum members submitted 35 excellent photos, which made choosing a winner a difficult decision. 

The runner up was Harev's photo "Sailing away in a snowstorm in New York"



Thank-you to everyone who participated.

You can see the results here:
https://www.theqe2story.com/forum/index.php/topic,5036.msg52525.html#msg52525

I will be contacting Stowaway 2K within the next couple of days with details of his prize and to ask him to choose a new theme for the April competition. 

As we had realised that there were lots of themes suggested by members that had not been used we have decided to make a slight change to the method for selecting the new themes.  The winner will be asked to choose from this list of themes, then to give us a new theme to add to the list. 

https://www.theqe2story.com/forum/index.php/topic,5145.0.html

[Lynda Bradford]

Stowaway 2K was delighted to win the competition and has responded with his choice for the next topic and a topic to add to the list. 

Wow, thank you so much.  It's amazing to win a contest when there are so many excellent choices for voters.

As for choosing an upcoming theme from the list, I like "The Bit Beneath the Bridge".  That sounds fun, and I think all of our members would have photos to enter with that theme.  It should be interesting.

A new theme... hmmm....
It's getting difficult to come up with something fresh that would be inclusive for as many members as possible.   How about "Quayside or Dockside, QE2 Tied Up"

[Lynda Bradford]

The winner of the Photo of the Month QE2 at Sunrise and Sunset is Andy H with "Sailing away from the sunset 2008"  This photo must have conjured up many memories for Forum Members as it received 13.8% of the vote.  Congratulation to Andy and thank-you to everyone who participated in the competition. 



The runner up was "Departing Australia forever" a photo that was submitted by Chris.  Thank-you Chris for sharing this photo with us. 

[Lynda Bradford]

Congratulations to our joint winners of the March Photo of the Month competition.  We hope you enjoyed looking at the photos and had many happy memories of your time onboard the ship. 

Our winning photos are:

The splendid carpet of the Pursers Office - submitted by Isabelle


and
Queens Room Bliss submitted by Stowaway 2K



We had two runners up this month:

Decorative carpets relating to the Launching ceremony submitted  by lahrdeco


and

Seat by seat submitted by Isabelle


Thank-you to everyone who uploaded photos to the gallery and to everyone who voted. 

The poll is now closed and you can see the results here:

 https://www.theqe2story.com/forum/index.php/topic,5240.0.html