NEWS – 2020 Traveling with Ann Calendar Contest … Winners Announced!
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Holy Hippopotamus! It’s time to vote for your favorite photos to go into my 2020 Traveling with Ann calendars.
Check out the pictures below taken during my 2019 travels near and far and chose ONE picture as your favorite in the comments below (type the picture number in the comments section … you can click on the picture to see a larger version of it). Votes will be tallied on November 22, 2019. I’ll share which winning photos had the most votes the following week. NOTE–If you’ve never commented on one of my blog posts, your comment will appear AFTER I approve it behind the scenes (I have to keep those darn spammers out).
In addition, I’ll do a random drawing from those who voted in the comments below and choose 10 lucky winners for an autographed desktop calendar! Be sure to check your email around the end of November to see if you receive a “Winner!” email from me. I’ll post the winners of the desktop calendar contest here on this page on December 1, 2019.
Let the voting begin! ♥ Ann
Number 1 WINNER! Hiking Trail—Sunset Crater Volcano Nat. Mon., Northern Arizona |
Number 2 WINNER! Apache Plume—Sunset Crater Volcano Nat. Mon., Northern Arizona |
Number 3 WINNER! Ancient Pueblos—Wupatki Nat. Mon., Northern Arizona |
Number 4 Very Large Array (NRAO)—Central New Mexico |
Number 5 WINNER! Lines in the Sand—White Sands Nat. Mon., New Mexico |
Number 6 WINNER! Rest Stop Sights—South Dakota |
Number 7 Hail’s Comin’—Eastern Nevada
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Number 8 WINNER! Snowy Century Plant—Prescott, Arizona
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Number 9 WINNER! Skeleton Mural—Silver City, New Mexico
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Number 10 Cactus Drive—Organ Pipe Cactus Nat. Mon., Arizona
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Number 11 Basin and Range Land—Eastern Nevada |
Number 12 WINNER! Old Barn Sunset—Northwest Ohio |
Number 13 Hay Field—Somewhere in Oklahoma
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Number 14 New Year’s Snowfall—Prescott, Arizona |
Number 15 Saguaro View—Organ Pipe Cactus Nat. Mon., Arizona |
Number 16 WINNER! Pepper Heaven—Hatch, New Mexico
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Number 17 WINNER! Evening Bloom—Northwest Ohio |
Number 18 Open Road—Eastern Nevada |
Number 19 WINNER! Granite Mountain Hike—Arizona |
Number 20 WINNER! Busy Bee—Prescott, Arizona |
#5
#12 Georgeous Sunset 🌅 awe inspiring
Number 2. Danged hard choice though!!
#6. I would love to take my horse and go for a trail ride there! Just beautiful and so different from where I usually ride! (Central pacific CA)
I have to vote for Number 6 since we are from South Dakota. It was hard. They are all excellent.
Number 15. Just so bright and happy day. Makes me want to hop in the car and start traveling.
#12
# 17
#1
You make this very difficult every year but if I must go with one I pick #7.
Number 4 is hilarious
#20
Number 3! I want to visit AZ and NM.
Number 6. I loved it when I first saw it. Although all of them are really beautiful. Love the White Sands pic. and the pepper heaven one. But that S Dakotah shot just speaks to me. Gorgeous.
My vote is number 12 though number 6 had me going back and forth for a few moments, but ultimately number 12 made me FEEL more.
#12
OMG this is so hard! They are so beautiful!!!! But I think that I am going to choose Number 2
Apache Plume—Sunset Crater Volcano Nat. Mon., Northern Arizona
#16
#15
5
#8
I love #6 gorgeous!
So hard to choose a favorite. But choose, I will #12 is my fave for your 2020 calendar.
#8 Snowy century plant
Number 12. Tough choice though, you have some great shots.
#12 I’m from PA originally (CO now) and I miss scenes like that!
#20 is beautiful!!!
#12
#16
All beautiful as always but I am drawn to #8.
#10
#12
Well, shoot! So hard to pick, but I’m going with #12. That sunset is gorgeous.
#12 is my favorite but all of them are amazing.
#20 but 15 is a close second choice. The insect pushed the flower into first place.
#16
Okay. I keep changing my mind. I’ll just pick #2 and stick to it. For now.
So many beauties to choose from. I choose 12.
#12…..beautiful! Reminds me of the Nebraska Sandhills.
All beautiful pictures. I’m going to have to go with 6 ☺️
It’s hard to choose, I’ll go with #12
Number 11
#12, love a great sunset pic!
#3
#2
Number 12
I really enjoy all your photos and if I have to pick only one this time it’s #6
Number 9. The Skeletin monument. It fits in with your skeletons. Heck keep them all add a page with your books and we can have a18 month calendar.
As Always , its Very difficult to choose Just One Photo!!!! They are All Great but, I chose #5 because I have 5 Grandkids lol and I also have Many Fond Memories of White Sands <3
#5
Number 8
#6
You sure make it very hard to pick out just one. Picking number 12.
Number 6
#12
#12
# 3
Love them all but the ones with snow…hate snow and cold! But my pick is # 20
#6
#8
7
Having Lived At Holloman AFB and Tularosa NM. I must go with the White Sands #5
They are all beautiful, but # 2 is my favorite.
#12
17
19
#20 but all are beautiful. Torn between this one and Hatch chilis, and #2 and the snowy cactus
So many wonderful scenes! Guess I’ll go with #14!
So many of these remind me of our family vacations when I was a kid. I have to go with #15.
I love number 12. But they are all wonderful!
Love number 14!
#16 🌶🌶
Will try once more in case that didn’t go through I picked no. 5 that is near my sister Hope to see it someday.
#13 please! I’m from Oklahoma. I would luv to see the hay field in your calendar.
Number 2.
I am torn between 12 and 8. The barn sunset just spoke to me of a great memory had happened while taking that photo. 8 the snow the fence and the flowers hiding underneath the snow, I think of kids playing and the secrets that lay waiting for us as well as the adventures that are ahead once we pass the fence.
So if I choose between the two it would be the barn number 12. I love the way the sun light is captured going down in the horizon.
#6. Is was a very unusual year to have so much rain in South Dakota and it made our state shine!
So many pretty pictures! I have to choose #12. First of all it’s a sunset. I love sunsets. And November 12 is my anniversary. 26 years.
I love number 8 so beautiful
We had an exceptionally colorful summer that went straight to winter white. You captured the summer beauty just like I want to remember it #6! But I agree with all of them in an 18 month calendar!😄
They are all awesome but I will pick #17.
I don’t know how you choose just one. You have a wonderful eye for photography,. #16…..because I loved Hatch and Green Chilies ❤️
#12 than all the rest. As always they are all beautiful.
I love number 6. The clouds in this photo are very cool.
They are all beautiful. 19 is has fond memories.
Number #6
Number 17. Makes me think of visiting my grandparents in Ohio.
So hard to choose but I’m going with #7
I always have a difficult time,but I guess I will go with #1. I love them all, though. You have the eye!
I like #1. I like the way the branches curve over the path, saying ‘come this way’!
Love them all, as always you have the “eye”! I think #12.
Hi Ann,
I love them all but number 20 is one of my favourites.
To watch the amazing bee get it’s tiny legs so ladened down with pollen from the sunflower and still be able to fly away is so stunning to watch.
They are all stunning and no. 4 is funny. I am going to vote for 4 because you cant go wrong with any of them and I would love to have something with your sense of humor I. The calendar!
Oh my goodness beautiful pictures all together. Drive a person crazy decision!decision! I love number 8 and 2,17,20. All your pictures are amazing. As I look out my window and the snows coming down I have to vote for number 8 being a St. Nicholas baby.
I would choose them all but if I must pick one then I choose number 3.
# 3
#8. Even though I moved South to escargot the winters, it’s still a beautiful picture.
#1 all are beautiful –
Number 20
#6! But I also like #8. All beautiful.
#4 is one of my favorites.
I like #20! They are all worthy of a spot!
12 it’s BEAUTIFUL
Wow. This was a hard decision between #6 and #12. However, I love the clouds in #6. So, it is definitely #6.
#6, the open plains of South Dakota, welcome one and all.
They are all beautiful! So hard to pick just one!! #9
I vote for #8 The Snowy Century Plant. I just love this picture. So calming to look at.Looks like you took it right out side my house,lol.
#12
Number 3
17 … my two favorite things, pink flowers and sunset!
#8
Tough choices. Number 12 kept catching my eye the most. Beautiful pictures.
I’m vting for #5
Number 8!
They are all great, but I have to go with Number 7
I’m tied between 12 and 14. I always pick snow pictures.
#8 would be awesome for December
OMG Can I edit my post? I meant to put #8 the snowy cactus. So so sorry. Understand if it can’t be changed.
They are all nice pictures I say #8
although they all are great. I like number 3. something about the picture is dramatic.
#6 is my favorite. There is just something about those clouds. Although they are all pretty beautiful.
#13 My favorite number and my state. 🙂
#20 I’m a very big fan of sunflowers, and add a bee just makes it extra special.
Number 19. I love the path going off into the distance.
12. And 8. And 7. Hard to decide. 🤷♀️
#12 is my favorite.
#12 – It’s a great way to wake up to.
They are all gorgeous, but I have to say my favorite is #3!
I used my love of jigsaw puzzles to help me select #16. This is the one that would drive me crazy so naturally it would be my favorite. Bonus, I could handle all those peppers without getting any of it in my eyes!
#20 🌻
#8, it’s gorgeous!!! All beautiful shots, but his wintry pic says get inside with a good book 🙂
#16 I can smell the peppers,
# 9 Love the skeletons. They look like they are grinning lol
1
#12 They are all so pretty.
#12. Great pics!
12. The Beginning
9
#19
# 19 although it was so hard to choose!!
I like numbers 8,12 & 14. The snow and the sun set are my favorite.
#12 is tops for me. (although 7 & 3 struck me as well)
Beautiful photos! Two is my favorite.
Hands down, November 8th. The barest tips of the Century Plant, seen reaching for even the smallest touch of “Sun” while buried beneath a fresh blanket of snow is breath-taking and a reminder of how an adversity need not be an insurmountable obstacle.
#3 – Ancient Puebla’s
Number 8
#8. Loved many of them but this spoke more to me
12 is a gorgeous sunset.
#3.
Number 3. Gorgeous!
#6
So crisp and clear. Beautiful
#12 is my favorite
#15. I love the cactus. They were all beautiful though
#15. I love the cactus. They were all beautiful though
Hard choice! All are beautiful. 19 is my favorite .
#12 is so beautiful!
It’s a hard decision, but #6 is my favorite! Absolutely gorgeous!
#4 Humm pretty funny, BUT gotta watch out for some alien activities possibly! 🙂
For Beverly Elliot: #6
I loved them all, except the snow ones. I hate winter! I hate cold! My cats hate the cold! Even my car hates it. I chose #19. It seemed to have a little of everything.
They’re all beautiful. # 9 is my favorite. It shows some Ann Charles spunk and character. See you in the funnies.
Number 12
I live in a rural area across from a farm so my vote goes to what I love to see and don’t get to see it that often here in Iowa #20! Thank you and what great pics Hugs peggy clayton
Pick only one??? That’s really hard. First would have to be number 3. Love the red dirt color. However, I also like number 20. Always love sunflowers. Thanks for all the fun things you do and share with us.
#16 and #20
My vote is for number 8
Beautiful photos!! I like #3 the best. Would love to see that in person.
#3 because that place is amazing to visit
#12 reminds me of summer evenings at my Granny’s
#5
Number 9 is so Ann.
Will go with #20! If we could have picked 2, 315 would have been my next choice. All of them are really good. Hard choices!!
What beautiful places you visited this year. Thank you for sharing them with us.
Number 6
Rest Stop Sights—South Dakota (it still looks relatively untouched by civilization)
❤️. # 6 ❤️ Beautiful green rolling hills and gorgeous blue sky filled with clouds!
Hard choice, but I’m voting for #20 because I love sunflowers.
Number 12- Old Barn Sunset. I live in Ohio. So I see these great sunsets alot.
#15.. My husband and I got to spend our winter in AZ. We absolutely loved it. Went tried to do all the trails in our Jeep. Did the Organ Cactus Nat. Monument. What a great place.. Can’t wait to go back..
#20. Lovely shots; thanks for sharing.
#7
#1
Ann, ALL the pictures are spectacular! My favorite is #1 – Hiking Trail in AZ, because it emits a peaceful, tranquil vibe. Thanks for sharing your travels!
By-the-way, do you have a book with all your pictures in it for sale? I’d buy it. : )
Number 20
#12 is gorgeous! Nothing quite like a gorgeous sunset.
#6 Love that sky!!
number 6 All the pictures are nice but the way the clouds are formed to the earth just stands out.
#12 with #2 coming in a close second. 🙂
#13
I appreciated the photographers efforts. All are good choices!
#9. The skeleton mural. It just seems to fit with all of your books. If you enlarge it, you will see all of the little skeletons in the mural. They are all individual tiles placed there by volunteers. Great history behind it.
Number 6 of course….it’s South Dakota! Rock on Violet and Crew in Deadwood!!!
#12- very beautiful sunset
Number 6
I am partial to good ‘ol South Dakota though 🙂
Hard to choose!!
#6 since I can only choose one.
#8 – it was a difficult decision as always!
I can’t decide between 12 and 6. I think I’m leaning toward 12.
I mean #16 🤦
#16
I vote for #6, 8 & 11. But I do love them all!
#6 We were just here first week in September! Beautiful!
#6 – want my beautiful South Dakota represented. But they are all beautiful.
Photo #12… I think. There were so many Photos I liked, I had a hard time deciding which was my favorite.
#2
Hard choice! I’d have to say that #6 is my favorite.
#20 is beautiful – they all are!
So many gorgeous pictures! I pick #6.
#12
They are all excellent. I’ll go with #20.
#8
Oh wow….#2, #6, #12…..so many choices! I choose #6, I guess! Love west river South Dakota! All of your pictures are fantastic, Ann!❤️ By the way….when does the Sam Lucky calendar come out? 😃
It was a hard decision. They are all so beautiful! I pick #12
This was a hard choice. So much beauty in nature. #7 kept bringing me back. Would love this view every day.
#12 is beautiful!
#19 is stunning!!!
While I choose # 16 (I loved everything in the picture, esp peppers), it was a really hard decision 😉
16 love strings of peppers
#1
You got the sunset and the foreground flowers in the shot. Very nice!
Number 12 for me, the barn it evoked me to think 🤔 it was like old man Harvey’s one. Great sunset shot.
#16
#17
#12 The sunset and the flowers in light in the foreground make this a fine pictures.
#17
#18
#19 love granite mountin
I love 16!
#3
I can’t pick just one, so number 8 and number 12 are my favorites.
#9
#3, you should go to the Taos Pueblo, in Taos NM. Amazing people.
I like #17. Beautiful flowers, but I’m from Michigan your neighbor to Ohio.
I agree with everyone, such a hard choice…. but, my vote goes to #12 however, #2 is so very close!
#12
Number 6, but they are all great!
Number 1!
Number 2 but really hard to choose!
#6
#1 I love northern Arizona. Have taken many hikes there.