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First of all I am very sorry for delay in posting the winners of this contest. My vacation has been prolonged and instead of Friday I returned just an hour ago. I had no access to the computer and tried to post from my smartphone but with no success.

Anyway, thank you all for participating and I liked the diversity of photos posted to the smoke/fire/steam theme.
The Honorable Mentions in no particular order:

Marisa Livet - Exotica. I like this lovely shape of smoke and nicely toned scene very much.



Markus Grompe - Beach Fire. A wonderful contrast between serene landscape and the action of sparks flying upward from the fire.



Arnie Peterschmidt - A Flame. Beautiful macro capture of the single flame structure.



Vijay Nanda - The Burning Ghats. The stirring scene of this tradition is what drew my attention and moved me.




Third Place - luxun54 - Sulphur Fields, Yellowstone National Park. Great scenery with the steam from inside of the Earth.



Second Place - Gill Kopy - Binta Fire. Frightening view and the smoke is incredibly big!



First Place - Robin Lew - Inside the Duomo, lighting a candle. I mostly like the beautiful composition and the spiritual mood of the burning candles put for special prayer intentions.



Congratulations, Robin, your turn!

Very Impressive winning entries.. Remarkable judgement and choice. Congratulations to all winners.

Great topic !! Congrats to Robin and other winners - and a big thank you for 2nd place - honoured
Gill

Congratulations to Robin and the other winners, well deserved. Thank you Jola for an interesting theme and for the HM.

Thank you, Jola, for the honourable mention. It was a very interesting competition with stunning pictures.

Thank you for 3rd place... a great topic, and a very strong group of entries and winners!

Thank you, Jola, for 1st Place. What an honor and a surprise among many stunning and beautiful entries.
My congratulations to all the other winners. A new contest will appear shortly.