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The ingredient this week was "contrast" and once again the voting ended in a tie. Congratulations to @Jameel Hyder and @Ken Rennie who each garnered four votes to take the win. Here are the winning entries: Jameel Ken

I think this is our first 3-way tie. The ingredient was "afterglow" and @AlanLichty, @Kyle Jones and @Sunny Sra ran away with the voting, gathering 5 votes each. Here are the winning images (in alphabetical order!): Alan Kyle Sunny

This week's ingredient was "calm" and both @Jeffrey and @Kurt Harrigan generated a lot of votes with their calming images. The both received 6 votes to tie for the win, narrowly edging Andrey who had five. Congrats to all, here are the winning images. Jeffrey Kurt

Our ingredient this week was activities - where the subject of the photo showed some sort of action. @Jameel Hyder edged out some fine entries from Ken and Levy to win the contest with 5 votes. Here is the winning entry:

Congratulations to @MonikaC for winning this week's recipe, "People in the Landscape". It was a close vote, with Monika edging out Ken's entry 7 to 6. Here is her winning entry.

Congratulations to @Ken Rennie for taking the title "Master of Backlight" with his beautiful image in this week's contest. The voting was very close: Ken received 6 votes to edge out Jeffrey who had 5. Kurt was a close third with 4. All were impressive images. Here are the top photos. I'm...

@Carlo Didier ran away with this contest, gathering 6 votes to easily outpace the other entries. The theme was monochrome and his graphic image really took advantage. Well done and congratulations.

Congratulations to @lionking and @Jim Dockery for this week's recipe. The theme was "Roads" and there were a lot of great entries, but Andrey and Jim dominated the voting with 6 votes each. It is interesting to me how different they are, one is an exercise in simplicity and the other quite...

@BarryHamilton has become our second member to win consecutive "The Recipe" contests. Last time he won our shallow depth of field contest and this time we won our contest for Verticals. We had a large number of really varied images and not surprisingly the votes were scattered across the...

The topic this week was shallow depth of field and we had some very different images submitted. Not surprisingly, the vote was very close, but @BarryHamilton edged out the competition with his image and took the prize. Barry had 4 votes followed closely by Alan, Ben and Doug who each garnered 3...

The recipe ingredient for this week was "frozen" - images depicting frozen things or taken in freezing weather. Kyle's winning image was both, taken at Abraham Lake in Alberta, Canada on a cold January morning. Barry's excellent intimate image was a close second. Here is the winning photo:

The recipe this week was for High Key images. We had a lot of really nice entries and Jeffrey gathered 7 votes to win in convincing fashion. Tex followed with 5 votes for second place. Congrats to @Jeffrey as our High Key master! Here is the winning photo:

In a crowded field of excellent photographs, @BarryHamilton dominated the voting to become our master of reflections. His winning entry received 6 votes, besting Ben and Doug who each received three. Congratulations! Barry's winning entry:

This week's contest was exploring motion in still photography. We had entries of several different types of subjects, but the winners both made use of automobiles. Congratulations to @AlanLichty and @Jeffrey for winning this week's edition of the Recipe. In a close contest, they each garnered 4...

We have a tie! We had a lot of entries with a great variety of textures and a close vote. But in the end, @Douglas Sherman and @Ken Rennie came out on top with 5 votes each, edging out several people that scored 3. You are the FocalWorld masters of texture! The variety of images submitted made...

And we have a three-time repeat winner! @Jeffrey once again dominated the voting for our Junk, Funk, and Rust theme with 7 votes beating the field where nobody else had more than two. I'm not letting Jeffrey pick the next topic :-) Here is the winning entry. Congrats!

We now have our first repeat winner for the Recipe as @Jeffrey dominated the "long focal length" ingredient with 5 votes, beating Amy who finished with 3. We generally give the winner of each contest the opportunity to pick the next ingredient which you might think would give them an advantage...

Congratulations to @Jameel Hyder for winning The Recipe #15: Color. His colorful image garnered 7 votes, edging Jeffrey's worthy entry that received 5. Jameel is Focal World's master of color. Here's the winning image:

Congratulations @BarryHamilton for winning ingredient #14 of the recipe: vanishing point. Barry tallied 6 votes, edging out Ryan who collected 5. I am awarding Barry the title "Victor of Vanishing". His winning photo is presented below.

It was close for a while, but Nilo's entry eventually pulled away to win with 8 votes. Ken's photo finished second with 6. By winning this week's contest, @Nilo Photography has proven himself the FocalWorld Master of Depth. Here is his winning image: