Pinkbike Photo of the Year - Round 2 - Last Day to Vote

 Yeah i agree... I think the either-or set up killed a couple of great photos... well, i guess it killed 16 great photos, but some didn't need to go out in round one (9 and 13 for example)
I'm not sure what type of format they should use to fix this but i guess either way it'll be narrowed down to one winner.

Great fuhkin job to everyone tho

 agree!

 Can somebody please tell me why that picture one match up #7?

 only disagree with matchup 8 but it's my opinion

 Perhaps because the one that lost was creative...but was also hands down the worst shot on here. The other one looks like something out of a sick movie!

 yeah i know. it;s just that i love 360's lol

 Bummer that two great photos had to go up against eachother in #2, I would have liked to see both of them go farther. Same with #12 and #3

 Disagree with #16

 @yeah bro

Because it's awesome.

 lol i'm pretty sure i voted for the losers on like every one. i am disappoint. so long, 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10, 13 and 16.

 I thought the losers from 13 and 5 should have been in the top 4.

 #16 the second one should have one it is way sicker!!!

 you guys can argue about the match ups and which ones should have gone through all you want, and i agree, some should have made it past the 1st round, but this is a contest, and the best photo will win no matter who its matched up against.

 yea defnatly 16 got shafted

 i think the winner of 1 will win it all

 Advertise somewhere else, not on here.

 the options for 7 and 11 both kind of suck...

 Big time!

 Both are great and very climatic pictures, but something made me vote for the one on the left... The right one is a beautiful photo with a beautiful scenery, but the left one seems to have a bit more of a poetical accent, something that gripped my heart and told me to vote for it, although I usually like cooler colours and mountain sceneries more. Today's matchup number 7 is even more dilemmatic!

 I'd say it's because there are more people who are DH-oriented on this site and that one had a bit more of a DH riding style in it.

 The loser in 13 is a way better shot. Also i don't like the artificial lighting in the winner.

 Agreed, #13 just doesn't make sense. I though the losing shot was one of the best i'd seen! What more do ya want? a DH bike? lame!

 i agree with you! the second photo is better! it's an epic photo!

 They're both spectacular. Lighting in the winner doesn't look artificial to me. It was a criminal matchup - they are both easily in the top 5 of all photos for me.

 Disagree with ALL of you guys! It was a BIT of a tough choice for me, but I choose the winner. 1. Do not like the shadow in bottom right corner of loser. SO DISTRACTING! 2. That light does not look artificial in the winner. 3. all the colors in the winner match. no dark shadows right next to bright greens. It just flows better in my opinion. 4. They had 1 chance at getting the winning shot if you read about it. If they had missed it they would have had to hope the rider didn't go too far, he would have had to run the h*ll back up, and if you have ever shot a sunset you would know that the sun would be WAY gone by then....
But don't take my word for it

 i never looked in the corner. it never got my attention, the rest of the picture did. it's an amazing shot compared to the other one, way better colours and more pleasing to the eye.

 Yeah i spent an hour thinking about match up 13!

 Ya, that shot is INSANE!!!

 agreed

 Yup, i'm with you guys.

 I'm sorry, but i think the majority of the people disagree with you

 Disagree. Its Photo of year, not cool trick of the year. Im not saying ur saying that but i think alot of people were. I think pretty much every one deserved to win. The winners of this round were all better photographs overall than the ones voted off the island.

 I'm no photographer, so I honestly have no idea how much effort it even takes to get these kind of shots.

 Blazer. a neat article behind the scenes about one of the photos in the contest www.pinkbike.com/news/The-long-way-to-the-right-moment-2011.html

 Thanks Karl. That was good insight to the whole process. Never imagined it would be multiple days of railing the same corner to get the perfect shot.

 N°1 winner!

 its so hard to choose!

 windows 7 has a slide show option for varied desktop backgrounds out of 1 folder

 Yep

 That snap was my favorite. Beautifully shot.

 Nuh-uh

 yuh-uh

 Perhapse 'embarrassment' is too strong a word

 I'd say 4 was worse. The winner is a good photo but it's barely a bike photo, you can hardly see the rider.

 I personally enjoy a good whip

 definitely agree with the #4 comment....

 ...I don't even mean compositionally or riding-wise or anything, just that the winning photo of matchup #3 has a disgusting amount of photoshop abuse going on. Holy over sharpening grossness, look at the halo around the rider!

 Let me remind you that the winners have been chosen by the people. Both are amazing photos, but one won by a landslide which should tell you something. You are just wrong.

 ...pretty sure the photoshop abuse is a fact, but it turns out that the average Pinkbike user loves photoshop abuse. And THAT's what's embarrassing.

 im dissapointed with majority of the results

 Yes, photoshop use is a fact. Why not use the greatest technology available to make a photo as good as it can be? I can see your side of the argument, and I respect your opinion. I honestly don't care about the use of photoshop as long as it is not too extreme, and the end result is what is most important to me.

 match up 7 disappoints me.

 yeah, really, and 12 too..

 #11 is the only one is disagree with. I just love how it is shot from below the tall grass like that. The winner is great shot too, but I like the like the loser better. I guess I am not the only one, that was a close match!

 Agreed. This was a close battle but in my mind, #10 is a much better photo. It's too bad the way they paired them up in round one. There are some photos that have made it to round two that wouldn't beat either photo from #10 in round one. I see what they did though... tried to match up similar type photos against each other right from the get go.

 i don't know if that's a good comment, but Marc Landry's photo was so much better, just my opinion. Timing and lighting is excellent, sure the sunset is a nice location and scenery, sometimes viewing these photos I don't like the match ups, I think its bases on votes....I dunno. that's all I have to say about that.