2011 Photo Of The Year Contest: And The Winner Is...

...announced on our DerbyLife facebook page.

The Winner: Photo Of The Year

First Place: #2 by Randy Pace (115 votes)
Second Place: # 4 by Dave Wood (60 votes)
Third Place: #8 by Wicked Shamrock Photography (52 votes)

Randy's photo was nominated by Ma Cuffs, mother of skaters Fisti Cuffs and Gratuitous Violet, and dear friend of DNN.

We thought you might enjoy knowing how the photographers placed in the final categories, so here is the breakdown (click the header links to re-view the galleries):

Best Atmosphere
First Place: #1 by Nicholas Charest (96 votes)
Second Place: #3 by LeVar Hurtin (59 votes)
Third Place: #10 by Axle Adams (36 votes)

Best Action
First Place: #7 by Randy Pace (105 votes)
Second Place: #4 by Sir Clicks A Lot (65 votes)
Third Place: #2 by Joe Rollerfan (42 votes)

Best Color
First Place: #6 by Adrian Valenzuela (60 votes)
Second Place: #1 by Nicholas Charest (59 votes)
Third Place: #3 by PreFlash Gordon (46 votes)

Best B&W
First Place: #3 by Dave Wood (103 votes)
Second Place: #8 by Captain Shutterspeed (57 votes)
Third Place: #5 by Axle Adams (54 votes)

Best Flight
First Place: #2 by Masonite Burn (119 votes)
Second Place: #7 by Tyler Shaw (108 votes)
Third Place: #3 by Eric Korn (94 votes)

Best Oops
First Place: #8 by Axle Adams (157 votes)
Second Place: #1 by Marko Niemelä (138 votes)
Third Place: #2 by Felicia Graham (79 votes)

Most Derby
First Place: #2 by Wicked Shamrock Photography (110 votes)
Second Place: #3 by Axle Adams (100 votes)
Third Place: #5 by Nicholas Charest (78 votes)

Best Portrait
First Place: #5 by Axle Adams (89 votes)
Second Place: #7 by Nicholas Charest (84 votes)
Third Place: #10 by Phil Peterson (69 votes)

While we tried as hard as we could to be truly inclusive of all the thousands of nominees, we were so overwhelmed by the many, many submissions that we had to narrow each category to 10 selections, often from 50-250 photos. It pained us to eliminate so many worthy photos, and you can look forward to seeing those that didn't make the cut in future Photo Of The Day selections on our front page.

Thanks again for all of your enthusiastic participation in celebrating the immense pile of talent we have in the derby photography community. We look forward to enjoying your amazing work in 2012!