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beautiful shot - cloudy and wet ground really make this a standout.

Super cool pic!

Wonderful shot ! congratulations on a worthy win (and ignore the .5 vote - The vote pattern looked like a sandbagger)

Placed 33^rd in the challenge.

This was one of my favorites. I'm glad the voters also saw the beauty here. It's a worthy top 3!

This had to be almost impossible to capture. Super nice shot!

This is such fun. I love your work! Keep 'em coming!

Quite a catch! 60 seconds - now I can see how you might get this lucky. It is a beauty! Congratulations.

Thank you so much!

I love doing birds and loved the detail here. Very nice, and impressing for hand held!

Thanks!

Placed 19^th in the challenge.

Just beautiful. Congratulations!

Looking at the other contenders was why this thought occurred to me. Apparently a lot of people liked the water drop for a screen background; not busy and easy on the eye to find your icons :)

While it could be sandbagging, another thought is that a couple of people may have disliked it for their computer background, not so much that they didn't appreciate the image quality itself.  It ...

You should ask the site - not post on a challenge comment section where no one who develops or updates the site will see it. At the bottom is a feedback link. I would try that.

Placed 2^nd in the challenge. See withdrawn entry with link to a hosted challenge.

Placed 9^th in the challenge.

That's what I thought a well, I had a hard time picking my top "5" with no real theme. This was in it of course.