Portraits of People

Portrait photography is always fun, but it can also be a challenge if the people you are photographing are not cooperating with you. You all have submitted some great shots for this one. I want to thank you all for participating. I am trying to get this post out so I can start getting packed for my trip to Vegas in the morning. Thanks again for all the participation in this one. You all did great.

Announcement

Please consider voting for my witness so that I can support the contest in the future with higher rewards. If you want to know more about my witness intentions, you can check out my Witness Announcement Post or vote for @derangedvisions here. I appreciate all of the support and am looking forward to helping to build up more communities here on the platform.

Professional Tier

1st Place Hive account@axeman

2nd Place Hive account@revo

3rd Place Hive account@idkpdx

Honorable Mentions

Hive account@derekkind

Hive account@itchyfeetdonica

Amateur Tier

1st Place Hive account@betterthanhome

2nd Place Hive account@mumma-monza

3rd Place Hive account@bil.prag

Honorable Mentions

Hive account@bembelmaniac

Hive account@kaliju

Hive account@leodang

Hive account@whimsical-magic

Beginner Tier

1st Place Hive account@helena-malaja

2nd Place Hive account@himalayanwomb

3rd Place Hive account@manuel82

Honorable Mentions

Hive account@matkodurko

Hive account@ecoinstant

Thank you all

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, vote for @pjau, 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.

If you like what I am doing, please consider a witness vote for @derangedvisions. Thank you all for everything. You are awesome.