Let's see if I can make this work. I have decided that announcing all the prizes at once is such a daunting task that I can't ever fit it in now that the holiday nuttiness is getting...nuttier. Also, I have to figure out how to do this HTML table thing. If I have it all oging out at once and can't get the table right...it will ruin Christmas for me. So let's open up one stocking today and see if I can get the format straight, shall we? Plus Jeff is so busy at the pub tonight he can't possibly notice that I went ahead and announced these first few. Right?
Crap! Just realized I had missed a great prize offered by the Wynkoop Brewing Co., an Obamanator t-shirt. So if everyone can shower them with some proper respect...even if via holiday best wishes from across the planet, that would be cool. Big woots!
Anyway, the first ten prize winners in the 2008 Yule and Christmas and Kwanzaa and Hanukkah and Any Other Holiday You Celebrate Beer Blog Photographic (and Daguerreotype) Contest and Carol Singing Festival are...in no particular order...and rolled out as I go along allocating prizes to photos over the course of this snowy afternoon... (drumroll!!!)
 | Chris Hadden Portland, ME "Maine's Ploughmans Lunch" | T-shirt and Hat | Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Delaware |
 | Nathan Fong Cambridge, MA "Salt Balancing" | "Ambitious Brew" signed copy | Maureen Ogle |
 | Russ Burdick Markham, Ontario | A One YearSubsciption! | TAPS Canada's beer magazine |
 | Dan James, C'town, PEI | t-shirt, pint glass, snifter glass, decal and hat!!! | Cigar City Brewing Tampa Bay Florida |
 | Corky Hellmer Portland, Oregon | a growler of organic beer and an organic tshirt | Hopworks Urban Brewery Portland, Oregon |
 | J. Wilson Prescott, Iowa [story here] | A definite offer of good stuff | Oskar Blues Brewery Colorado |
 | Ron Pattinson A Brewer's Log [Story here] | Whatever pints are passed to him next visit! | The Gunmakers Pub London, England |
 | Craig Mycoskie Denver, Colo. | a hat plus bottle of this years Epic Ale | Roots Organic Brewing Company Portland, Oregon |
 | Nicole Cleaver Hamilton, Ontario | A Granite sweatshirt! | The Granite Brewery and Restaurant Toronto, Ontario |
 | Andy Rigden Kent, England | I have to check with Jonathon. Glassware I think. | Monday Night Brewery Atlanta, Georgia |
How's that? Did the table work? Hmmm...I don't know why I have that column of cells to the right but I really do not care enough to fix it.
Comments
Maureen Ogle - December 19, 2008 5:13 PM
But . . . but . . . we can't see all photos and/or winner's names! (And, sob, I can't see which photo-and-artist won my book.)
Alan - December 19, 2008 5:33 PM
You can now, Maureen! I am taking about 20 minutes to get each prize properly cross referenced and then HTML-a-riffic. Also, check here for links to all four galleries with all the entiries.
Dan James - December 19, 2008 8:55 PM
WOO HOO!
Knut Albert - December 20, 2008 7:05 AM
Incredible. Most impressive is the range of motives.
Knut Albert - December 20, 2008 7:05 AM
Incredible. Most impressive is the range of motives.
Jonathan - December 20, 2008 1:50 PM
Yep, glassware. Awesome pics!
Joe - December 20, 2008 7:18 PM
That ploughman's lunch photo is fake, right?
Daylon - December 20, 2008 7:21 PM
Joe, yeah it is....look at the size of the bottles compared to the boxes... lol
Alan - December 20, 2008 7:41 PM
Yes, Chris is a graphic designer whose clients, I believe, include Shipyard.
Alan - December 20, 2008 8:56 PM
There you go! First ten prizes awarded.
Nathan - December 21, 2008 12:26 AM
Thanks for participating, Maureen! I was considering giving your book a shot when I had time. I actually favor this photo's companion shot (see link) - both were at Redfish in Boulder.
Alan - December 21, 2008 10:09 AM
I think the composition is maybe a little better on the salt shaker, Nathan, but the focus is so good with the glass, right on the point of contact between the glass and salt. The real reason you won, however, is that I used to do that in Halifax and I completely forgot about playing at salt balancing in the taverns.
Maureen Ogle - December 21, 2008 4:42 PM
Nathan, shoot me an email with your address and I'll send the book out. You may not get it in time for xmas, but then again.........
I'm at maureen@maureenogle.com
Alan - December 21, 2008 4:45 PM
Maureen, I am sending out emails for all winners and prizes. We already have all winners addresses and emails to ensure the right Nathan gets your kindly offered prize.