WIN A FREE PHOTO BOOK -- Learn who won!

[Mike Buckley]

280
340

I see that you list your location as Southwestern Ontario. This is a reminder that I'll send the free book only to winners that provide a mailing address within the U.S. It doesn't have to be your living address but it does have to be an address in the U.S.

 

[Mike Buckley]

I added the following clarification to the first post in the thread:

"Any participant that appears to be a winner but doesn't provide a mailing address in the U.S. is disqualified. Thus, that person's entries are also disqualified."

 

[Palouse]

What a hardassed judge!

 

[Mike Buckley]

What a hardassed judge!

Keep in mind that disqualifying entries has the potential to help, not just hurt, other participants' chances of receiving a free book.

 

[Terri French]

345
225

BTW, that jar of bugs is rather gross!! I'm sure glad we don't have them here.

 

[West]

If someone would be willing to receive the award for you at a U.S. mailing address and if you are the winner, your contest entries would qualify.

I was just kidding as you can tell by my chosen numbers (unless one of those insects is pregnant).
No interest in the book.

 

[Mike Buckley]

I was just kidding as you can tell

Yes, I assumed that.

 

[Clix Pix]

345
225

BTW, that jar of bugs is rather gross!! I'm sure glad we don't have them here.

Yes, Terri, so right you are! It's one thing to watch carefully where I'm stepping while walking through the neighborhood so I don't inadvertently squash one or to casually say "hello" to a cicada who while flying around unexpectedly lands on my shirt but quite another to have a whole jar filled with dead ones.....

 

[gchappel]

Mike, my address is in Florida. I’m not sure that is considered in the US.
Heck sometimes it isn’t considered part of the civilized world.
Florida man is real, and lives here
Gary

 

[kilofoxtrott]

I'm former inhabitant of the American zone in Germany...

Kind regards
Klaus

 

[Mike Buckley]

I'm former inhabitant of the American zone in Germany...

That being the case, you were a former inhabitant of the former American zone in Germany. Way too many "formers" to quailfy for this contest. That's one of the characteristics that makes this contest so darned silly!

 

[Mike Buckley]

DING! DING! DING! We have a winner. (That was guaranteed so long as at least one qualified entry was submitted and several were indeed posted.) The issue is that we don't yet know who the winner is.

305 cicadas were used to make the photo. Nobody guessed within 5 cicadas, which would have guaranteed all such qualified entries to be winners. Based on the entries that were submitted, there is only one winner, which in this case is the one person that guessed closest and can provide a snail mail address for me to send the photo book to once its produced.

If Greg (F64) will PM me with a snail mail address located in America, he is the winner, as he had the closest guess at 280 cicadas. He also had the second closest guess at 340 cicadas.

If Greg understandably doesn't want to provide that, the winner is Terri, as she guessed 345 cicadas and lives in Utah. EDIT: As Rick points out below, she actually lives in Idaho.

Stay tuned to learn who won this silly little contest!

 

[dburanich]

Don't know how I missed this thread.
I noticed it today and thought 325 would have been my submission if I would have made it in time.
Oh well.
Win some
Lose some.

 

[nuclearjock]

the winner is Terri, as she guessed 345 cicadas and lives in Utah.

Idaho?

 

[Mike Buckley]

Idaho?

Ahhh. You're right! Thanks!

 

[Mike Buckley]

We have a winner! Greg (F64) has already provided an address in America for sending the photo book once it's produced. Congratulations to Greg for winning this silly little contest.

(Who in the heck runs a contest with a prize that is not immediately available?!)

 

[Terri French]

I missed the conclusion of this thread earlier. I must have been away from the Internet when it was posted. It was a fun idea, Mike!!

 

[Mike Buckley]

I missed the conclusion of this thread earlier. I must have been away from the Internet when it was posted. It was a fun idea, Mike!!

Thanks, Terri! I still haven't begun to put the book together. Once I do, I'll get in touch with the winner. I hope to get it done in time to give to friends as Christmas presents but I keep getting delayed because of so many fun things to do in life that continually get in the way.