The Winners (Finally!): Solano Stroll Scavenger Hunt

It's been several months, but we're finally ready to announce the grand prize winner for .

In first place: , who shared 20 photographs in the contest, and had the strongest image in five of our categories. 

The runner-up, by a very close margin, was , who's also quite a fine photographer. His images were the strongest in three categories, and another 11 in the top images (in this gallery) among all the categories. He shared 41 images with us in this contest. 

We had more than 300 submissions from more than 20 contributors, by far our largest contest to date! See the full list of contributors below.

This was very tough to judge, and we got an amazing number of fantastic photos. The best three images in each category are included here.

You can view individual galleries at the following links: , costumes, , entertainment, the parade, booths and vendors, , , , , artsy shots, candid photographs, random times and happy moments. 

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Thanks to , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  and Harold Caplan for their participation!

(And thanks to reader Janna Katz for  in 2010! .)