Editor's Choice Winner Rik J Herrmann id1679148ep

Reader's Choice Winner Ken Hayes id1678928

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Tied for 9th id1683383

Tied for 9th id1678848

10th id1679028

11th id1683113

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The Chattanooga Times Free Press received over 330 photos for the Mainx24 Photo contest in just under 3 days. There were some great prizes up for grab for the winners, too. We were excited to see the high turnout of photo submissions.

The rules of the contest and how the selections were made:

Photos had to be taken at the Mainx24 Festival starting at 8:00am on Saturday, December 6th, 2008 through 8:00am Sunday, December 7th, 2008. Photos had to be submitted to the Chattanooga Times Free Press by 5:00pm on Monday, December 8th, 2008. At that time, the Chattanooga Times Free Press Editorial Photo department selected the top 20 photos to submitted into the "People's Choice" contest. At that time, they also selected the "Editor's Choice".

The "People's Choice" contest was made live on the timesfreepress.com website from midnight Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 until 12 noon on Friday, December 12th, 2008 for web site visitors to select their favorite photo.

Web site visitors voting for their favorite photo could only select a single photo and only vote once. This was controlled by "cookie-ing" the voting user's internet browser.

Employees of the Chattanooga Times Free Press were not eligible to win.

There were a number of articles written on the Times Free Press website about the 24-hour event.

To see all the photos submitted in the MainX24 Photo Contest, you can go here.

To see all the photos from the Event Photographers from the Chattanooga Times Free Press took covering the event, go here or here.