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Featured Photo Winner (300 Points)

In honor of the great content that is being uploaded to Localism and all of the effort that is being invested in i New Paltz t, I am going to periodically feature what I believe is the top photo of the day. I will be rewarding the member that contributed the photo with at least 300 bonus points!

Today's Featured Photo was uploaded by Shannon Elizabeth.

(She has no photo on her profile but we love her anyways!)

The photo can be found in New Paltz, Ulster County, New York

Congrats Shannon! Our first Featured Photo winner.

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Posted by Jon Washburn on 02/05/2007 11:21 PM

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44 Comments on Featured Photo Winner (300 Points)

FEB

2007

Johnathan,

What a nice thing to share after such a long day!

Thanks, Lynda Eisenmann

FEB

2007

Great idea. Now if we could get the same inspiration for agents and teh MLS photos! LOL

Jeff

Cool photo. What a rewarding talent to have.

Great idea!!! Are you going to miscellaneously looking at the photos or do we need to send you a message to check em out?

David,

No need to send me messages about this. I will be looking at the recent photos link on the Blog Dashboard. See this post for more details.

Jonathan,

Great concept. Photo's certainly take what may appear as boring and spices it up. We as Realtors should be savvy enough to add a picture and maybe it will help in improving the quality of photo's on our listings too. Keep up the great work!

You are keeping it fun to build Localism.com

Great idea Jonathan and that is an awesome photo.

Congratulations, Shanon and welcome to Active Rain. Now let's see a face behind that pretty picture.

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Baltimore,Md

that's a cool photo-i'm jealous of those with photography skills! =)

Fantastic photo I wish that I lived in an area like that!

Congratulations Shannon...

Your photo makes me think about God.

That's a good thing :)

Great idea and fabulous foto!

Beautiful part of this country. Grew up in Hudson Valley.

Every area and community has something beautiful to offer - we're lucky we get to share these photos.

Jonathan,

Great idea, and you can count me in. Congrats Shannon!

What a beautiful photo. Talk about being at the right place at the right time.

Shannon conratulation. Great Shot.

What a great idae! Congratulaions Shannon!

Jonathan,

Thanks for the post. Another great invigorating idea. Shannon, has certainly kicked it up a notch.

How can I just upload a Photo? AM I missing some thing???

I can't help but wonder if vulgar photos will win a feature, considering some of the crappy posts that get featured.

I am dying to go out an take more photos but it is about 4 degrees in Toledo....brrrrr That was a great picture!

I'm inspired. I love photos. Since I have to be by my phone so much, I limit my trips to the Post Office, bank, shop, previewing, etc. to sunny times when I can get some good photos.

I found, 20 years ago, when it took a decent 35mm camera and many trips to the photo shop for developing, that a good use of photos set agents apart from those that didn't use photos. Photos have been an integral part of real estate practice for me since the very beginning.

When the digitals came out, I purchased 10 of the Mavicas for use by my agents. Some used them faithfully and some didn't. The ones who did sold more real estate.

Mmmm. It's 11 degrees out. I may wait a while.

Lenn

Wow !! Beautiful photo !!

That is a super idea. I have lots of photos of great quality, but I haven't figured out how to post them yet!

Mike Morgenstern

WOW! Thank You so much everyone! I just found out that my photo was chosen for this!! I am so honored!

I actually took this photo last June '06 while on my first mountain bike trip ever, at Mohonk Mtn. in New Paltz. We got really (REALLY!) lost, stuck in a thunderstorm in the middle of no where (20 miles from our car), and thought we would NEVER find our way back to the parking lot. Everything went wrong that day! After hiding under an old bridge to get away from the thunder and lightening storm, I came out to find this beautiful sunset!! It definitely made the horrible day we were having worth it!! To make things better, there was a double rainbow behind us! I'll post that photo a little bit later!

Thanks so much!! :-)

PS- I'll post my profile picture later today, I'm a little camera shy myself! Sorry!

Great picture and great name! :) Very pretty and nice story to go along with it!

Shannon Moore

Great Idea and a Wonderful shot!

Beautiful Photo.

To insert pictures without blogging, go to Localism.com. Login in (button on the top right). Your Login and Password are the same as your ActiveRain Login and Password.

Click on your "state" from the map or the list. Then, select the county on the left, then the city. (These will automatically pop up as you complete the step before it.)

Click on "[your city] Photos"; from the list on your top left. Click on "Upload photo" for [your city].

Click browse and select the photo from your computer. Then click "open" and it will transfer it to your location box. Click "upload photo" and you're done!

If you get an error after selecting "upload photo", try shrinking your photo caption/definition. If the photo definition is too long, it gives an error.

Nice picture. Shannon, get your picture on line. People like to put a face to the name!

Hmmm... if age of the photo does not matter, than I have a couple goods ones that I can put up. Just need to dig up the photo albums.

I love sunsets so this is a keeper!

The sunset looks awesome. I have always admired the art of photography.

Eddy

Shannon - what a beautiful shot you captured, and CONGRATS on being the featured photo winner!
AnnCummings.com

Very nice pic. Want camera did you use? -Charles

Thanks again! I use a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1 digital camera for all my photography and I love it!

PS- I added my profile picture for those of you that suggested it! Its the only one I could find as of now.

:-)

Nice!

What a nice start! congrats on the picture prize and welcome!

Great shot, Shannon - that's the kind of photo that makes me instantly relax and say, "Ahhh."

Great shot, great idea to build Localism. I'm lovin' this points thing. Can we say competition addiction?

FEB

2007

Newbie here. Just not sure where to post pictures in localism. Have some great ones I would like to post.

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FEB

2007

Awesome Shannon.

I lived in Orange County for 17 years.

Love the beach, but I do miss driving the Hudson Valley back roads and taking in the views

of Apple Orchards, Horse Farms, Mountains and farm stands.

Mohonk Mountain is Spectacular!

AUG

2008

We should have these more often. Perhaps individuals can start their own best of lists for their particular community and then tie that into localism. This was more of a note to self i believe. With the amount of pictures we have on active rain and localism we could start their own istock like photo site.

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