Today we bring you part XII of the photo contest. The penultimate photo contest blog
- Miscellany.
The first category today is sort of a miscellany….
Though truthfully, miscellany is a bit of an understatement. This collection is a little more random that that, even….
It’s almost more of of hodge-podge. And with that in mind, I would like to officially class these photos as a hodgelany.
(Creepy….)
Here we have a photo of WMF between a pair of 16,000 year-old mammoth bones (a radius and ulna, if you’re curious).
It *is* kind of a mammoth book….
Here’s my book taken with a statue of Gandalf in the Hyewha District of Seoul, South Korea.
“She looks pretty enthralled by statue-Kvothe’s serenade. I bet Kvothe would make a pretty kickass bard in D&D actually.” – Amanda
I know you’re just trying to bait me with your bard-talk, Amanda. And I’m not going to take that bait….
This is certainly the happiest I’ve ever seen my books looking….
Winner:
But this one is our winner. It’s made Amanda giggle on more than one occasion. You’ll have to embiggen it to see why.
Here’s the photostream of all the random miscellany.
- Artistic:
A lot of really beautiful pictures came in, too. Some of my favorites have been pictures that don’t even look like the books are included at first glance.
Pictures that were taken with the artistry of the photograph itself in mind, rather than with the purpose of telling a story, making a joke, or focusing on a theme….
Okay. Some of them play a bit with theme too….
But mostly they’re just cool…
Many of them are designed to give the viewer a moment’s pause before figuring out what’s going on.
I’m still not sure how this one was done. But I like the tone….
Oh man. It just occurred to me. This might be a reference to the book being a good yarn….
Honorable Mention:
Behold! The last of the contest’s honorable mentions. I’m terribly fond of this one.
Winner:
As you can see if you embiggen the picture, the words all down this reader’s arm are quotes from my books. Apparently, the lyrics from Jackass Jackass were still in between her fingers when she sent in her submission.
From the early days of the contest we had an inkling that this would be one of our winners, so we contacted her a while back and sent along her set of gold talent pipes.
And here she is, wearing those pipes, in front of the very same bookshelf….
(Her shelves are so much tidier than mine…)
I’m so pleased to end the blog on this particular winner, as the photos she sent in were some of my absolute favorites.
If you’d like to see the other pictures she submitted, you can check them out in the final photostream.
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Okay folks. Tomorrow is the four-year anniversary of the end of the contest, and we’ll be posting the final blog which only contains one winner. But oh… it’s *such* a winner. You really have no idea….
They really went above and beyond, so be sure to tune in for that one.
In the mean time, feel free to peek at the previous blogs:
[Prologue] [Part I] [Part II] [Part III] [Part IV] [Part V] [Part VI] [Part VII] [Part VIII] [Part IX] [Part X] [Part XI]pat
P.S. I deliberately made nine puns in this blog. Because I’m just in that that sort of mood. First folks to spot and list them in the comments win the right to feel kinda smug for the rest of the day…