Admission: Judging was quite subjective, based on to what extent the response "Wow! I wish I had taken that" was evoked. The top three and the three HMs were shuffled around a bit.
Honourable mentions to two of Gill Kopy's entries and to Hugh's:
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Third place to Ken Zaret's wonderfully timed wave, with the birds all in exactly the right place:
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Second place to Peter Schmidt's place, which had me driving around that island with Google Earth street view looking for the location:
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First place to Vijay Nanda's dreamy beach scene, because I absolutely loved it:
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