Vote Now! Discover Dominica Photo Contest Finalists
[Editor's Update 10/29/09] -
Due to vote rigging and the slandering of competing photos by fellow contestants, we have decided to pull voting altogether and have Matador staff vote on a winner for the Discover Dominica contest. We’re sorry to have to take this action but the spirit of the photo contest has been lost and we didn’t like the direction in which things were headed.
All of these photos are wonderful examples of outdoor exploration. This contest was meant to be fun, and about the photos, not about who could use social networking sites, chat rooms and message boards to rally the most votes from strangers who didn’t even know about the contest on Matador.
This weekend the thirty or so of us now working on the Matador project, from coders to interns, will vote on a winner and we’ll announce that person on November 1st. This will ensure there is no bias and bring the contest back to what is important — the photos.
We thank everyone who entered the contest and voted on a photo and congratulate everyone who made it to the finals. Rest assured, Matador is not going anywhere and there will be dozens more contests to win incredible free trips like this one to Dominca.
Ross Borden
Co-Founder, Matador
A big thank you to everyone who submitted their photos! Be sure to be on the lookout for our future photo contests!
1. Anthony Lewis – “Exploring Torres Del Paine, Chile.”
2. Annie Nelson – “At the Devil’s Golf Course in Death Valley National Park. The ground is made up of crystals of pure salt from lakes that dried years ago. I tasted the ground, and sure enough, it tasted just like table salt.”
3. Julie Han – “Jumping over white sand dunes in Mui Ne, Vietnam.”
4. Karen Keeney – “St. Paul’s on Pitcairn Island.”
5. Matt Bigelow – “America’s greatest outdoor past time: roasting marshmallows over a river of molten lava.”
6. KWilliam Beasley – “A little silliness after hiking up from the valley floor in Yosemite.”
7. David Tai – “Preparing to enter the cold pool, Buckskin Gulch.”
8. Emmy Lenevald – “Preikestolen, Norway. 604 meters down. Vertigo.
9. Lara Silver – “Crawling through an ice tunnel while hiking the magnificent Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand.”
10. Chelsea Raubenheimer – “Exploring the ends of the Earth!!!”
11. Vamsi Vasireddy – “What happens when your shower head is an elephant trunk? The look on our faces – priceless!!”
12. Alex Montalvo – “A joking attempt at backwards dowsing unexpectedly yields a Komodo dragon.”
13. Fabio Barbon – “That’s me walking over the waters of Barra Velha, BA , Brazil.”
14. “With storms coming in, a manatee herd heads for open water, allowing us to swim alongside them before heading down to Paul’s Reef, Florida.”
15. Alex Budak – “Exploring the sand dunes of Rajasthan, India, isolated from the rest of the world, as we watched the sunset as the golden sand in the horizon gradually faded to black.”
16. Jennifer Eden – “My boyfriend showering in the waterfall.”
17. Dacey Zelman-Fahm – “My father and I hiking across a natural land bridge in Sycamore Canyon Wilderness, Arizona.”
18. Laurin Ensslin – “Laurin conquering the Boquette Tree Trek, the real canopy tour of Panama…hope there is cold beer at the bottom!”
19. Katie Peterman – “Sandy Spit in the British Virgin Islands.”
20. Chris Tse – “Stopping to pose while hiking in Plitvice Lakes National Parks in Croatia.”
21. Kurtis Hastie – “Here’s a picture I took while myself and a few friends explore mother nature in the form of ice climing! Picture was taken at Restoule Park in Northern Ontario. Climb pictured is “The Snake”. How much more can you get in touch with mother nature than in the form of seasonal ice climbing? She creates it, we climb it.”
22. Aisha Springer – “Hiking in Great Falls, Maryland.”
23. Curtis McLeod – “We took the phrase “When in Rome…” to heart. So, when in Wales, act like mountain sheep.”
24. Krishana Clark – “The sun setting over the beach in Montego Bay Jamaica! Me on the left hand side enjoying the moment…how I miss this place!!!”
25. Mei-Ling McNamara – “A baptism of solitude in the Desert du Lampoul in Northeastern Senegal.”
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