Manitou Springs Chamber of Commerce hosted a photo contest on their Visit Manitou Facebook page that ran from May 1st to the 16th. The photos with the most likes, comments, and shares would win first place, and so on through 3rd place. All of my family and friends were on notice NOT to vote for me and for the most part they obliged. Not to be bragging but three of my photos had the most likes for first, second, and third place so the Chamber combined them. I’m glad the Chamber did that because that way other contestants would receive 2nd and 3rd place recognition and the same prize as 1st place.

We were encouraged to enter as many photos as we could and I think I entered about 10. The funny thing was that this photo

took off into first place right off and stayed there for a week.  I entered a few more.  Then I entered the one below of the Crystal Wizard just for the heck of it and because I know many of the young locals like this shop:

To my mind anyone could snap this picture but it zoomed past the first picture in just a matter of hours.  I really did not want this one to get the most votes but it did.

My favorite two pictures below barely got any votes but we all can’t have the same taste can we?

This yoga group picture is another one of my favorites but it was way down in the voting too.

I originally entered this contest for the very special prize which I will receive tomorrow or the next day and that deserves a post all to itself.  More to come……