GEC Giveaway- Photo Contest - Winner Anounced

[Ellis Wyatt]

It is time for another photo contest, and GEC giveaway. The rules are simple:

1. Please be a participating member of the porch. Let’s say 25 posts to qualify.
2. To enter the contest, post a picture that you took.
3. The picture does not have to contain a knife, but if it does, it needs to be a traditional pattern.
4. One picture per entry. You may enter as many times as you like.
5. Like my last giveaway, the winner will be determined based on the number of “reactions” received on their post, so voting is by the porch members. If there is a tie, the winner will be the one with the most “loves,” followed by most “wows” if needed.
6. If you wish to enter for another member, please post their username in your submission.
7. International members are welcome to enter.

The prize: A new in tube GEC 562123EO in Natural Micarta.
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This giveaway will run until until next Saturday morning, and then I’ll lock the thread and announce the winner.

Good luck! Hope you have a good weekend.

Update 8/26/23 @ 2:00 pm EST:
The winner is Jacques Mi with his photo:
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Thanks again to all who entered and voted. Have a good weekend.

 

[Jerbhola89]

Great to see you do this again! It was really fun the first time and an absolute blast seeing some amazing pictures. I’m in!

This first one will be the entry photo. Awesome knife, awesome place, awesome company! (Photos taken after this years GEC rendezvous just south of Titusville).

 

[Jerbhola89]

Others (not a second entry)

 

[Ellis Wyatt]

Great to see you do this again! It was really fun the first time and an absolute blast seeing some amazing pictures. I’m in!

This first one will be the entry photo. Awesome knife, awesome place, awesome company! (Photos taken after this years GEC rendezvous just south of Titusville).

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Very nice. I love the ebony and what looks like a 35?

I was carrying this Maher and Grosh 35 recently, but much prefer the blade options on yours, as I just don’t find myself using the pen blade secondary often.
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[BDubbs]

What a great contest. I’m not in but I’ll submit this one for Jeremy sbh06 . I know if it’s not a keeper he’ll move it along to another porch member.

Here’s a chunky GEC 72 and our girl Stella. Yard companion, terrorizer of cats, chaser of squirrels, and friend to everyone else.

Hope everyone is having a good weekend and your weather is at least as nice as ours today.

 

[Old Engineer]

We lost my favorite dog in 2010 and my kids and grand kids always thought I needed another one to keep me company . So I did get a pup in 2020 that now keeps me company and my great grand kids carry him around when ever they come . He is appropriately named Dusty .

Please enter for Amir Fleschwund

Harry

 

[Jacques Mi]

Glacier.

 

[BDubbs]

We lost my favorite dog in 2010 and my kids and grand kids always thought I needed another one to keep me company . So I did get a pup in 2020 that now keeps me company and my great grand kids carry him around when ever they come . He is appropriately named Dusty .

Please enter for Amir Fleschwund

Harry

Great stag on that one. We lost a pup this year, the pain will almost swear you off ever having another.

 

[Jacques Mi]

If you look closely you'll see a person..

 

[Jacques Mi]

A colleague navigating a crevasse field with a small group of tourists. ,

 

[Ellis Wyatt]

Glacier.

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Wow! Great pictures. Completely different landscape than I have ever seen in person. Very nice use of light. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Jacques Mi]

Icebergs in fog and still water.

 

[Jacques Mi]

Wow! Great pictures. Completely different landscape than I have ever seen in person. Very nice use of light. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks, appreciate it!
I used to work full time as a glacier guide, now I just freelance every now and then. All the photos are just shot with my phone whilst working.
Yeah, Iceland has some spectacular nature. It makes it hard to screw up a photo here haha.

 

[Prester John]

Glacier.

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Iceland is beautiful. Great photos!
Did you watch the 1972 World Championship Chess Match between Fischer and Spassky? Or meet Fischer when he was made a citizen?

 

[Jacques Mi]

Iceland is beautiful. Great photos!
Did you watch the 1972 World Championship Chess Match between Fischer and Spassky? Or meet Fischer when he was made a citizen?

Thanks!
Unfortunately I wasn't born back in 1972.
I never met Fischer either, he settled in a small and very boring town, Sellfoss, an hour or so away from Reykjavik. My ex-wifes father actually played Fischer a few times - or Fischer played against him and bunch of other players simultaneously.

 

[Jacques Mi]

An abandoned church.

 

[Viper84]

Great giveaway! Looking forward to all the pics.

I'm in with a picture of two of my favorite EDC tools. GEC 39 elderberry camel bone and a 1xAA McGizmo Haiku.

 

[Hoffmajo89]

Thanks Ellis Wyatt for the chance to enter the GAW, I’ve been pretty curious about these recent 56s and would love to try one out, so I’ll be entering with my photo below of one of my favorite knives. This pocket carver is always along for the ride on camping trips because the kids love when I whittle little figurines for them to play with (until the promptly lose them) and one of my few knives where the spine has more patina than the flats of the blade.

 

[Just Tom.]

From my “googly-eyes” period (not an entry):

 

[sf fanatic]

Thanks for doing this it’s very generous of you! I’ve already have a #56 from this run so this is not an entry.
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