It's amazing what things like Election Day and the high school fall playoffs will do to a guy's free time at work. Hell, I spent a good five hours sitting in the office today, not photographing anything, and only made a tiny dent in the backlog of stuff I have to do these days (hey, did I mention we do photo galleries now?)

So, for some substance, I offer you the various photos I've shot this year that have placed in clip contests (click on the photos for the contest links), ( with some commentary: )