There is a contest that Microsoft is now holding to select what I think will be a background photo for future Vista releases (?).  There is a prize for the winner anyway, I'm just assuming that the winning photo will be somehow incorporated into Vista.  In any case, it's always a lot of fun to put your favorites up against those of others and see what people think.  Here's the photo that angel submitted of Enoch as His submission.

The real key to winning, of course, is reader votes, so please go see this photo on Vista's WOW contest page and vote for Enoch!  Also, submit your own and put the link to them in as a response to this blog so the rest of us can see your handiwork.  Note that the Vista WOW contest page distorts them a bit, but I assume Microsoft will get that figured out by the time they publish the winner...(?!)

Here are a few I have that I wanted some input on:

Big Sky, MT - with the pinkish Alpenglow or without?

Or, how about the Land's End arch in Cabo San Lucas (I should have gotten this with the tide up and the beach covered in water but I was more focussed on getting out to sea to catch some marlin)?  I only wish I had my new super duper professional 10.2 megapixel digital SLR when I took these (that, though, is where our Enoch photos all came from).

Please post your own favorites WOW photos here for our own little ActiveRain WOW contest, which I will volunteer to be chief judge of, with the input of course of all those that comment to the blog and it's responses.  I posted a similar thing on our residential site today.  Since that blog module won't yet accept viewer postings, for that we can only have people post the URLs for their own entries to the Microsoft Vista WOW contest. 

For this AR WOW photo contest, just like the rules in the Vista version of this contest, no people photos, please, unless they are fully clothed and tasteful (I'll just assume you have permission to post them, whereas Microsoft requires you to certify that you have their legal permission!).  Picture post away!