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{this beautiful life} group two

by satakieli

I only have time to put up these tonight...

again, I haven't started judging yet,

these are just some from the Flickr group and ones that people sent me.

by satakieli

by Jean Z Mae

by Vanessa

by Chrissy

by Danielle

{this beautiful life} group one

I am loving looking through all of your entries!
Be sure and check out the blog posts linked up to the original post,
but here are the ones both from the Flickr album and a few that were emailed to me.
I won't be picking finalists until November 2nd, so I am refraining from commentary at this point.
But let me know which ones you love. :-)
Enjoy!
(and don't forget to enter, if you haven't!)

by hgsturtevant

by farmgirl94_12

by abhishek duggal

by esmeralda gatsby

by beautylikeakaleidescope

{this beautiful life} winners!

After more painful deliberation and asking everyone under the sun which ones they thought should win...

...and generally making a nuisance of myself while I wallowed in the throes of indecision...

....and being told by my brother Benjamin that I just needed to just "bam! decide!"

...and being told my one of my friends that I needed to feel empowered

and believe in myself and just know in my heart the truth.. (?) and then make a decision...

...and after teetering on the brink of indecision even as I sat down to write this post...

Here are the winners of the

{this beautiful life} photography contest!

The first-place winner is

Ellen!

I just kept coming back to this photo. Such striking color and composition.

Ellen will be receiving the red polka-dot camera strap cover from Studio MCA Designs.

The second-place winner is

Theresa!

Amazing color, amazing editing, amazing clarity. And I love the tiny dewdrops.

Theresa will be receiving the lovely necklace from A Lost Feather.

...and the third-place prize goes to

Anna

Can you tell that I am a sucker for gorgeous colors? I love the contrast of the intense colors in this photo.

And you gotta love old barns.

Well, maybe you don't have to. But I sure do.

Anna will be receiving this spunky camera strap from Sizzle Straps.

Thank you,

everyone who participated!

I had way too much fun looking through all of your creative entries.

Although, the choosing was undeniably gory.

I think I'll be okay after a good night's rest.

And a big huggy thank-you to our generous sponsors,

who made this contest a whole bunch more fun.

Winners--email me with your shipping info!

we have a third prize!

Since all of your photos were so beautiful, I decided I really ought to have a third prize.

So I rustled one up.

Sizzle Straps is providing this colorful camera strap for the third-place winner!

Unlike the red polka-dot camera strap cover for the first-place winner, this one is an actual strap.

It attaches to the camera just like the camera strap that you have now.

But it's cuter. ;-)

Make sure and check out the shop--there is lots of yumminess to drool over.

Hoping to get the finalists up later today...

but I'm gonna be gone until afternoon, so you'll have to be patient. :-)

{this beautiful life} favorites

by Ashley

After long deliberation...

and after looking at the photos over and over,

and after being counseled by my artistic, ruthless, and un-biased family members,

and after realizing that I really can't have you ALL win...

here are the finalists.

by Anna

I love old barns. I love dramatic blue skies. I love green grass. The end.

by Daniel

This shot is just undeniably gorgeous.

And I don't tend to go crazy over scenery photos.

Plus it's our only entry from a MALE.

So we just needed to give a little recognition there.

By the way, remember my post about my brand-spanking-new niece?

The photographer of the above photo is the dad. :-)

by Amy

Amy submitted three beautiful macro flower shots, and I had a hard time choosing.

The clarity and color are stunning.

by Danielle

I just love this perspective. It makes me want to run down that promenade,
waving my arms and screaming "LIFE IS SO AWESOME!"

by Natalie

Beautiful macro and color and composition.

Makes me wish our zinnias weren't melted soggy black blobs. Stupid frost.

by Ellen

Gahh. This is so beautiful. My friend Ellen took this from a helicopter in Hawaii.

No wonder it is amazing.

I WANT TO GO TO HAWAII.

by Emily Grace

How do people get these shots? Just wait around for a butterfly to land on a flower beside you?

Life isn't fair. It just isn't.

by Emily

This little girl is SO CUTE.

And I love the black-and-white.

by Tara

I love the soft colors and cozy autumn-ness.

by Jamie

I love the three siblings together--so sweet.

Her blog has lots more photos of her precious new baby!

by Janet

Girl--beautiful.

Red headband--beautiful.

Carnations--beautiful.

by Jenna

These shoes. This skirt. This pose. How could I not love it??

Cute, funky editing... although I would like to see the original, too!

by Naomi

I love how this captures the little boy's joy and autumn's beauty.

by Theresa

This COLOR, people! I love it. I want a dress that looks exactly like this rose.

Well, maybe a little different. But this color at least.

Winners will be picked from these finalists, and announced tomorrow...

in the meantime, shout out your favorites!