Thank you!!

First off, I want to say a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone that has been participating in the contests. There have been some amazing entries in the contest so far.

^{Photo by Hive account@leodang}

This photo by Hive account@leodang was submitted during the Having Fun Theme. This is the caption that he added with the photo:

My lovely niece, she's happy with her yogurt
Not much to say about this photo. Actually, this is the best moment I took photo of her until now. To me, it is so fun, but to her, I think she was so happy with the yogurt.

Another photo that I really like was by Hive account@bil.prag. It was an entry in the very first Street Photography Theme that I did.

^{Photo by Hive account@bil.prag}

He did an amazing job capturing the emotion in this photo. You can really tell that this man loves his music. I wish that I could hear the song that he was playing. The best street photographers are able to capture a moment that tells a story and leaves us wanting to know more, and Hive account@bil.prag does this amazingly with this image.

Prizes

Over the past 3 months that the contest has been running, there has been 23 contests and as of the writing of this post, 21 have ended. I have been able to pay out approximately 183 SBD to all of the participants.

I would not have been able to pay you amazing photographers for you efforts without the help of my two main sponsors for the contest Hive account@pfunk and Hive account@czechglobalhosts. Both of them have been supporting the contest from the very beginning and in turn have been supporting all of you that have been entering.

Hive account@pfunk is a very active member of the Steemit Community and is also a Steemit Witness. There really aren't many witnesses here on the platform that do more for helping out community initiatives than what Hive account@pfunk does. Here is just a small excerpt from his latest Steem v0.19.5 Witness Update.

I continue my work as an administrator on steem.chat (hosted by Hive account@followbtcnews) which includes checking for and disabling scammer accounts.


I continue to support Steemit Open Mic hosted by Hive account@luzcypher along with excellent judges Hive account@passion-ground, Hive account@verbal-d, Hive account@meno, Hive account@soundlegion, and a couple more that are taking a break. I also support Hive account@derangedvisions' photo contests, Hive account@detlev's #BeerSaturday challenges, Hive account@photocircle's Top 10 posts, and Hive account@fibra59's meme challenges.

If you aren't voting for Hive account@pfunk for witness yet, you should really consider casting a vote for him.

Hive account@czechglobalhosts runs multiple daily photography competitions on his personal blog that are open to people from across the globe.

Tomas has two main types of daily photo contests. One is a daily recurring theme about sharing your personal pictures from your visit to the Czech Republic. I have learned so much about this amazing country and seen some amazing sites from everyone's contributions to this contest.

The other daily contest is a 7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge and each day is assigned a new continent and participants share pictures from their travels or from the areas that they live. The really good thing about the way that Tomas has structured this contest is that it is inclusive to everyone around the globe and gives them all a chance to win. Here is a breakdown of the breakdown of the schedule for the 7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge:

• Australian Monday
• Antarctica and World's Oceans Tuesday
• African Wednesday
• European Thursday
• North American Friday
• South American Saturday
• Asian Sunday

Hive account@czechglobalhosts photo contests are a great contest for all photographers to show off their travel photos and the beauty of their home country. I would encourage all photographers to head over to his page and follow him and be sure to enter in his contests.

Future

I am looking forward to the future of the Deranged Photography Contest. This last month has been pretty bad with the market being low and the post rewards being so bad, but I am hopeful that the market will gain momentum soon and that means that we will be able to bring back the top photos of the month again.

Once again thank you to everyone that is helping to make the Derange Photography Contests successful. If there is a theme you would like to see, leave a comment below and we will try and incorporate it in the future.

Please consider casting a witness vote for me if you like what I am doing for the community. I believe that this is an amazing platform and I have seen it change people's lives. I want to do my part in ensuring its longevity so that it can continue to help people all over the world and reward talented and creative people for what they are doing. You can vote for @derangedvisions here or go to https://steemit.com/~witnesses and write in "derangedvisions."