Still 2% behind. Come on guys!

Richard

Spot's ahead by 1%.

Only another 2 days remaining.

Vote vote vote.

Now it's a 3-way tie

They will allow for more than daily voting. Turn off the cookies on your browser.

It's close race now, 20% 20% 19% to the 3 in the top.

/Ulf

I KNOW I have seen that eagle photo before. In some set of stock photos available for download somewhere. Honestly, just can't remember where.

I feel sad for those who have a small percentage of votes for their pictures. All of this stuffing of the ballot box is just plain wrong!

So if the skydive picture should win, you can cheer all you want but it doesn't mean a thing to me.

I agree that the voting should be done by qualified judges and not a wide open circus such as this.

So one can turn off the cookies and vote a dozen times or use more than one computer or whatever. Is that fair to those who follow the rules and don't cheat?

This whole thing sucks! Congrats to the loser that wins!!!

Danny Fye
www.vidmus.com/scolvs

Maybe we're seeing a different contest? The majority of the images are within 10% of each other. If folks here are helping with the vote, that's great, but given that the guy with the "Surfer" photo got a very large newspaper to publish a story, and solicit votes, seems like that's no different than folks here voting. I'm sure not everyone here is voting for the image that has the shuttle/skydivers in it.
As far as I'm concerned, the shuttle/skydive image already won. No way, no how, will that moment ever be repeated in history. The image (to me) is about chasing dreams, no matter how far away they are. It's about low technology meeting high technology. It's about having a slice of time that no one on the planet will ever enjoy quite the way you (I) did with my three friends and co-body pilots. And it was about being an infintisimal part of a moment that rocked the entire planet. *Every* image in the contest excepting ours is repeatable to a fair degree. In my mind, that makes it special regardless of anything else.
So...while 'I'd like to see my friend win a professional camera package that may help propel him to the next level of ability and quality...we already won. We won before we ever landed. And we "won" when the picture was selected from thousands of images for the USA Today contest. We won when many people stood behind us and said "This is a really cool moment/event, and a good image of that moment." And pertinent to your wish...We won when the USA Today Senior Photographer and the National Geographic Photographer of the year selected this as THEIR winning pic in the print version of USA Today's magazine.

[edited to add] then again, those same guys chose the "Eagle" shot, and from a variety of forums 'round the world, I've yet to read from anyone that believes it's real. 3 points of light don't exist in nature...

Currently the Skydive photo is ahead at 23% to the Eagle's 18%.


Contest ends at 11:59PM TODAY.

Let's put the Skydive photo over the top !!

John

I've voted for it 5 times already.
I'm wondering, in US elections can you vote again if you go back to the end of the queue?

Bob.

I'm wondering, in US elections can you vote again if you go back to the end of the queue?

Only if you give the election officials a cookie.

t voted for Skydiver again - and there's no doubt that it's the best picture (if it's not I challenge anyone to go out and match it!) Fingers crossed as we near the finishing line - sorry I can't be as naive as vidmus.

Richard

"I'm wondering, in US elections can you vote again if you go back to the end of the queue?" only in Detroit, Flint and Chicago. In fact, its very common to have dead people that have been buried for 20+ years voting in Detroit, Flint, Saginaw and Chicago. Requiring a current ID or driver license has cause quite a uproar in some midwest cities. ;-) But enough politics. Lets hope Spot's photo wins!

Reply by: craftech

There's no good way of preventing it, so you might as well make it ok... to re-level the field. Banning it, with no way to prevent or detect it (reliably), would just allow the cheats to win.

Voted. Skydiving, of course.

Spot's got my vote. I can't even begin to imagine the amount of planning it would take to time that!

Skydive now has a relatively comfortable lead but that can change so keep 'em coming!!!

Spot got mine. He is leading now!

Spot has this one in the bag. He's ahead by about 3,800 votes, doubt that the eagle could get that many before midnight, and figure DSE will get a few more between now and then as well.

DSE,

I have a friend who is quite knowledgable in NASA flights and he was curious which launch this was. He said it looks like SDS95 but that was in 1998.

He was basing on trajectory, time of day etc.

Thanks for the response.

Dave T2

June 2, 2008. Just a coupla months ago. I wasn't skydiving in 1998, I was a filthy, low-life paraglider back then. ;-)

Everyone has something to hide Spot....nothing to be ashamed of.