Here is an honourable mention, which I liked because it is quirky. The feet are close together, the bodies pointing in different directions like hands on a clock, and the viewer has little idea what is going on:

Another honourable mention, a picture successfully simplified by removing everything unnecessary to the pattern:

And here is a simple subject that would have escaped the notice of somebody who doesn't use a camera, turned into a delightful pattern of three.

The first three I think are stand-outs. My choice of the placings is more or less arbitrary.
Third place goes to a picture where everything is in the right place, and the subject matter made me wish I had been there:

Second place to very special flower picture. Flower pictures look easy, but here the camera has been used very skilfully to produce a spectacularly lovely image:

First place I picked as soon as I saw it. I don't know how it was done, but it is beautiful and could only have been achieved by a real artist:
