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Kingstonist’s Greatest Photo Contest: Winner
Drum roll please. It gives me great pleasure to announce that Hung Q. Mai’s Ride the Wave was voted the best photo in Kingstonist’s Greatest Photo Contest (December 2012 edition), earning him the top prize of a $50 gift certificate to either Camera Kingston or Kingston Frameworks. All of the finalists have earned themselves one [...]
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Weekly Poll: Kingstonist’s Greatest Photo Contest
Last week we announced our fifth Greatest Photo Contest. Local photographers once again responded by uploading their best shots of Kingston to our ever-growing Flickr group. This past weekend, we combed over all of submissions and painstakingly selected photos for inclusion in our two week-long poll to crown the best of the best. A big [...]
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Kingstonist’s Challenge #57: Photo Call
Welcome to Kingstonist’s weekly challenge, dare, resolution or whatever you prefer to call it. Each week we establish a new and ambitious community goal, encouraging our readers, followers, friends and families to step out of their comfort zones and do something great, and hopefully a little out of the ordinary. Consider this your official and [...]
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Kingstonist’s Challenge #54: Show Some Love for Kingstonist
Welcome to Kingstonist’s weekly challenge, dare, resolution or whatever you prefer to call it. Each week we establish a new and ambitious community goal, encouraging our readers, followers, friends and families to step out of their comfort zones and do something great, and hopefully a little out of the ordinary. Consider this your official and [...]
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Kingstonist’s Greatest Photo Contest: Winner
Drum roll please. It gives me great pleasure to announce that Urban Ear Photography was voted the winner of Kingstonist’s Greatest Photo Contest (June 2012 edition), earning the top prize of a $50 gift certificate to either Camera Kingston or Kingston Frameworks. Additionally, all of the finalists: Gangie, Hung Q. Mai, Tom Rutledge, jj8rock, Michel [...]
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Kingstonist’s Challenge #34: Show Some Pride
Welcome to Kingstonist’s weekly challenge, dare, resolution or whatever you prefer to call it. Each week we establish a new and ambitious community goal, encouraging our readers, followers, friends and families to step out of their comfort zones and do something great, and hopefully a little out of the ordinary. Consider this your official and [...]
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Weekly Poll: Kingstonist’s Greatest Photo Contest
Last week we announced our forth Greatest Photo Contest. Once again, the response from local photographers was overwhelming, as our Flickr group is bursting with even more awesome local flavour. This past weekend, Kingstonist’s dedicated editorial team sifted through submissions and painstakingly selected photos for inclusion in our two week-long poll to crown the best [...]
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Kingstonist’s Greatest Photo Contest
Over the past few years, we’ve conducted three photo contests, while our readers were ultimately responsible for crowning Lito Ochotorena (November 2010), Steve Koopman (July 2011) and Urban Ear Photography (December 2011) as deserving winners. In each case, we sourced nominees from our fantastic, ever-growing Flickr pool, while a select few went frame to frame [...]
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The Five People You (Want to) Meet in Kingston
The final exam in my first year French class included a 15 minute conversational interview, where the challenge was to wow the prof with a long-winded response to a single question. The questions were, as you’d expect, very open ended. And as luck would have it, I drew the age old noodle scratcher: if you [...]
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Kingstonist Turns Four!
Happy Birthday to us! Today is Kingstonist’s 4th Birthday and, as I’m sure you all know, we’ve been celebrating all week long with a fun contest featuring various questions about our great, little town. Thanks so much to everyone who has participated, it’s been really fun, not only coming up with the questions, but also [...]
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