So many statues!!
You all submitted some amazing statues this week. It was awesome to see so many statues from all over the world. I have been seeing statues from all over the east coast of the United States over the past few weeks and it is great to see the variety of statues that the world has to offer.
- Reminder If you got 1st or 2nd place in the previous contest the highest place you can get in this contest is 3rd place or Honorable Mentions. I am doing this so that many people have the opportunity to be rewarded with the top prizes.
Professional Tier
1st Place 
Hive account@fotostef
2nd Place 
Hive account@edward.maesen
3rd Place 
Hive account@axeman
Amateur Tier
1st Place 
Hive account@libork
2nd Place 
Hive account@themonkeyzuelans
3rd Place 
Hive account@jayclar30
Honorable Mentions
Hive account@phortun
Hive account@itchyfeetdonica
Beginner Tier
1st Place 
Hive account@betterthanhome
2nd Place 
Hive account@kidsreturn
3rd Place 
Hive account@janine-ariane
Honorable Mentions
Hive account@artmom
Hive account@hardvicore
Hive account@matkodurko
Thank you all
Thanks for taking the time to submit pictures and keep the contest going. Make sure you show some support to the sponsors that are helping to make sure this contest is possible.
I want to thank my sponsors 
Hive account@czechglobalhosts, 
Hive account@pfunk, 
Hive account@spiritualmax, and 
Hive account@guiltyparties and the rest of the 
Hive account@steemcleaners team for helping to make this whole contest for you all possible. It would be awesome if you could all visit their pages and show them support as well.
For those that don't know, Hive account@czechglobalhosts puts on two daily photo contests that are open to anyone to enter. His contests cover the entire globe so that anyone can enter. The days and themes are:
Australian Monday
Antarctica and World's Oceans Tuesday
African Wednesday (My personal favorite)
European Thursday
North American Friday
South American Saturday
Asian Sunday
On top of the themed daily continent contests, he hosts a daily travel contests specific to the beautiful country of the Czech Republic. So make sure to follow Hive account@czechglobalhosts and participate in his contests because he is offering two daily photography contests that you can enter to win.
One major sponsor to the contests is Hive account@pfunk. For those that don't know Hive account@pfunk is a very active witness on the platform that is doing a lot behind the scenes to ensure that your user experience is a smooth one.
Hive account@pfunk aids in the process of new account set ups, a big part of Steemit Chat, and a part of the Hive account@steemcleaners team. Hive account@pfunk also is a huge supporter of the Open Mic contests run by 
Hive account@luzcypher.
You should seriously consider casting a witness vote for @pfunk.
Cast your witness vote for my sponsors
If you have free witness vote slots, you should really consider voting for the Steemit Witnesses behind Steemcleaners and also voting for 
Hive account@arcange. Hive account@arcange is one of the main witnesses that is fighting all of the phishing scams that are going around on the platform. All of the witnesses listed below work tirelessly behind the scenes to help make your Steemit experience as pleasant as possible, and your vote is a way of thanking them for all of their hard work.
Hive account@guiltyparties and everyone else behind Hive account@steemcleaners does so much for the platform as a whole, trying to reduce the spammers, phishing and plagiarism that goes on here. If you have any free slots for witness votes you should consider casting a vote for @guiltyparties, vote for @patrice, vote for @anyx, vote for @pfunk, and vote for @ arcange. Your votes for these great witnesses go a long way in ensuring the platform continues to thrive.
Become a sponsor
If you would like to become a sponsor and delegate SP to the Deranged Photography Contests you can do so by clicking on the following links:
50 SP, 100SP, 250SP, 500SP, 1000SP,5000SP.
Be sure to leave at least 50SP undelegated on your account. All delegations will go towards rewarding all of the participants of the contests by upvoting the entries. I am hoping to be able to reward everyone for taking part in my contests.
Thank you all for everything. You are awesome.
