Congrats to the winners! Some awesome shots, all in all!

Warmest congrats to the winners, it was a fun challenge indeed!

It was enormous fun. Great idea Flickr !

Bravo à tous les gagnants👏 !

Beaucoup de photos inspirantes 👍.

J'ai rempli ce challenge des 21 jours, n'ai pas été sélectionnée, mais... l'important n'est-il pas de participer 😉 ?

C'était vraiment fun 😊 !
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Congratulations to all the winners👏 !

Lots of inspiring photos 👍.

I completed this 21-day challenge, was not selected, but... isn't the important thing to participate 😉 ?

It was really fun 😊 !

I enjoyed this contest immensely. A very big thank you for picking me as one of the streak winners. I look forward to the next contest greatly.
Such a great way to celebrate and share each others posts.
I love the community here. Other social sharing sites have nothing on Flickr.

Being a newbie on Flickr and with all the great photos I saw in the pool, I didn't expect to be selected as a winner, I guess it's beginner's luck 😊
So thank you very much and congrats to the other winners!

Can't wait for the FLICKR 22 Day Birthday Photo Challenge!

congrats to all...

Congratulations to all the winners - great shots! And a fun challenge for sure.

Congratulations to everyone, it was really beautiful!

Thank you and congratulations to everyone!

Congratulations to all winners! Well deserved! And Happy 21st Birthday to Flickr!

Merci d'avoir organisé ce défi et félicitation à tous les participants, particulièrement aux gagnants! Tout au long du défi, les photos étaient inspirantes!
Thanks for the organisation of this challenge and congratulations to all participants, particularly the winners! All the pictures were inspiring!

Thank you so much for selecting my photo - what a fantastic surprise! This was a fun challenge.

HUGE congratulations to ALL WINNERS!! It's because of all of you/us that this challenge was so fun, so thank you EVERYONE for entering!! AND thank you FLICKR for engaging us all in such a joyful fashion!
Flickr:

This contest was great fun and congratulations to all the winners! - Some truly beautiful shots on display, really awesome and fun competition.

Congratulations to everyone and thanks to Flickr and its collaborators for this beautiful initiative, I hope there will be others.

well done to all participants!!

Flickr:

Great idea and event , Flickr: crew !
Congratulations to everyone who submitted a photograph !

Congratulation to the winners ... Now ... I think we had too much photos and excellent submissions for just a few winning picts ... and for the 21 day challenge streak, I don't even fully understand the choices ...

Well I had fun making my Flickr21Challenge album ... but I feel a little like no one noticed my work on that ... 16 views ?! ...

... Well the important part is to participate indeed isn't it ! ^_^

stéphane Jansegers:

i am sure almost all the views from this group will be to the individual photos rather than to the album you made.
Certainly that was the case for me - I think I got lots of views to the 21 old pictures that I posted to the group.

I looked at lots of pictures here too but i didnt view very many albums from participants.

But yes for sure it was the process of deciding what picture for each theme/prompt and looking at others pictures & their different interpretations that was the fun for me and for most people here.

Thanks Flickr, it was a good one! Lets do it again next year!

Ka Gee Ka hi

Hey what a fine thing it is for those who were chosen among soooooooo many fabulous images, well, well done to the winners and also all the participants:)

The winners took incredible photos, congratulation to everyone!!!!!

I loved going through my photos to decide which one to pick. Congratulations to the winners

Congratulations to winners stunning photos, shame they all seem to be pro members from what I can see. Perhaps next time do a pro and none pro members one to give those who can't afford pro membership a chance.

whitewitch1971:

Well, the prizes (Pro memberships) might already been granted to the winners, so sure they are now all Pro's! Please avoid jumping into conclusions folks!

whitewitch1971:
Hi, Yes Cantilena91 is right, the winners all appear as Pro now because the ones who won, but were not Pro already have been upgraded. But the challenge winners group was made up of both Pro and Free Flickr members. Thanks for participating in the challenge!

stéphane Jansegers:

Some really nice submissions and lots of variation - well done!

About the results of the competition or another view
This competition was a good idea. Thousands of Flickr members were waiting for it and seriously preparing. And now, after a painful 2-week wait, the long-awaited results have been published. Giving credit to the work of the jury and the winners, it must be said that the impressions were not unambiguous. The criteria for the jury's work are not entirely clear. The impression is that sometimes in assessing the works, not the skill of the photographer and high creative criteria prevailed, but an extremely simplified approach and political correctness. It turns out that in order to be noticed, it is enough to mirror the object corresponding to the theme of the competition and original creative techniques or a deep meaning of the work are not at all necessary. /In passing, I want to note that there are questions about the selection of "best photos of the day": it is unclear why often far from the best works end up here?/
The jury's comment is surprising: "We also randomly selected several winners who completed the 21 day challenge streak".
Are you serious? People tried, searched, created, did not sleep nights, and in the end "randomly". Very sad and offensive.... I want to hope that the criteria for evaluating the work in the next competitions will be closer to real creativity and will not be "random"...



Or, return to your sent mail.

Naum Chayer:

Then again, who said this was to be a serious contest? It was meant to be a fun, interesting challenge, not a dead-serious event. Not all of us are highly skillful nor have posh, super expensive camera gear available. This place is a platform for all sorts of photography enthusiasts, including amateurs and beginners, so please stop highbrowing. We are here to share our photos and have fun after all.

Flickr:

This was fun! I enjoyed submitting. The winning photos are great! Good choice!

Naum Chayer:

you have, so far, put the same cut/pasted comment into 3 separate threads in the discussion section of this group.

the other 2 threads are:
www.flickr.com/groups/flickr21birthdaychallenge/discuss/7...
and
www.flickr.com/groups/flickr21birthdaychallenge/discuss/7...

Personally I dont think that is good form to do that.

Naum Chayer:
A bit dramatic.

Naum Chayer:


Could you squeeze out all the fun of a simple challenge here any more?!?!??? It was something for fun for all Flickr members to participate in. It's not the "WORLDS BEST PHOTOGRAPHER EVER, IN THE UNIVERSE and STRATOSPHERE OF LIFE" contest by Flickr, or Kodak, or Getty. It was simply created for members to have a little fun, as well as to encourage member participation and engagement with the Flickr community, which encompasses all skill sets and experience levels.

Cool your jets and relax, and thank Flickr for doing it in the first place. It was for Flickrs 21st birthday celebration after all.

Sometimes taking things too seriously and stamping YOUR rules and ideas of what is or what is NOT an acceptable photo entry, will inevitably let you down one way or another. And it looks like your expectations let you down bud.

Love the Theme Challlrnges whether it is one or multi captures that have to fit in the box. Thank you Flickr . Only one critique MORE PLEASE !

My big congratulations to all the winners! Superb photography!
I myself was also in awe because I actually finished all 21 challenges! Looking forward to more group activities like this one, well maybe less than 21 themes! =P

Thanks for the great challenge and opportunity to be a part of it! :-) It was fun and challenging a little, but also interesting and inspiring! It became a good start for me in Flickr, hope to stay a part of this community for a long time ;-)