This has been a short short month for me. I had to go on a couple of short yet intensive work trips and an assortment of social events and a holiday party that has left me drained and dreading my hair iron. I am sorry for the delay in posting the results of the November 2011 DMBLGiT photo contest. The judges did a great job and for the most part we were pretty consistent in our scoring. So much so that a couple of categories actually tied up and I had to do a quick round 2 to make the final decision.
Enough of my yada-yada. Here are the winners!
Overall Winners
First place: Soma of eCurry with her Strawberry Basil Ice-Cream. She is way ahead of everyone else in terms of her scores and also scored high for originality.
Second place: Chang Pick Yin of PickYin’s Place with her Chicken with Rice and Mushrooms.
Third place: there’s a tie!
Pamela of Unodedos with her Cherry Tomato, Mozzarella, and Zucchini Pie
and Vidya of Kurry Leaves with her Prawns and Drumstick Curry
We also picked one winner from each of the individual categories used for judging – Edibility, Originality, and Aesthetics. The winners in this category are chosen outside of the overall winners above.
Winner of Edibility Category
Jasenka of Sweet Corner with her Pumpkin Cheesecake
Winner of Originality Category
Claude-Olivier of 1001 Recettes with her image titled “Autumn is coming…”
Winner of Aesthetics Category
Karen of Citrus and Candy with her Vietnamese Chicken Salad
If you want to take a peek at all the entries, here’s the Picasa Gallery. Huge thanks to the judges once again, and also to Andrew for giving me the opportunity to host DMBLGiT this month. It was fun and totally worth all the spreadsheet and excel-crunching I had to do! If you are interesting in being a host of a future edition of DMBLGiT, find details here on how to go about it.
DMBLGiT December 2011 Edition will be hosted by Arundhuti of My Saffron Kitchen.
Thank you everyone, especially Aparna, for adding your thoughts in a much better way than I ever could've said the same things. I didn't mean this to be a confrontation or argument of any sort. Any kind of art will be seen with different eyes and that's what happened here as well, it's only natural.
My idea was only to communicate that criticism is welcome just like compliments, but it will be nice if some thought is given to how it is put across, that's all.
Thank you!! Thanks Nags for hosting and a big thank you to all the judges. Congratulations to all.
All the pics are great…Congrats to all the winners!Personally I fell for the pumpkin cheese cake since the day I saw it in ur album 🙂
Congratulations, to all the winners..
Judges did a great job!
Thank you Nags for hosting this month`s DMBLGIT contest and thank you judges:) I`m so honored that my photo won in edibility category! Congrats to other winners, photos are amazing!
I don't moderate comments because I believe in freedom of expression. I just feel there's a difference between being nasty and saying the truth. Nobody is asking you to only say nice things but there's no harm in putting it well. Maybe we differ in that perspective too. I was taught to be empathise always, even when saying the truth.
PS : this is not a matter of me taking criticism or not. Just that I found your comment unnecessarily rude and voiced it out. Again, my opinion.
ha ha I agree with the above comment.It does look like vomit.What were the judges thinking.The other winning pictures are good except for the ice cream and cherry tomato pie
Sam
you must be kidding me that strawberry icecream looks like vomit.Chicken with mushroom should have won
Wonderful! Glad you managed to see it all through till the end. And what a marvellous selection of winners, I love each and every photo!
Dear anonymous 1 and sam, maybe you should open your eyes to the possibility that people have different perspectives. And also, try to remember what you were taught while growing up. Let me remind you in case you have forgotten after all – be nice even if you don't agree. Tough luck if things don't always look like sunshine and rainbows to you.