By Vladimir Brezina and Johna Till Johnson
We didn’t really know what to expect when we started blogging. We certainly had no idea that the best part of blogging—truly, the very best—would be discovering the vast audience of sympathetic readers out there, many of whom have wonderful blogs of their own that we now love and follow.
And we are very gratified to find that they like our blog in turn! We’re grateful and honored by the many awards that our readers have bestowed on us. Over the last eight months or so, since our last acknowledgment of awards, those awards include…
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the Versatile Blogger Award from
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the Beautiful Blogger Award from
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the One Lovely Blog Award from
- fun fit 5k plus
- Healthcare Updates
- The (Urban-Wildlife) Interface
- The Panama Adventure
- The Palladian Traveler
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the Very Inspiring Blogger Award from
- The (Urban-Wildlife) Interface
- Living and Lovin
- A Day In the Life of Jennay
- Picture Perfect Memories for Life
- Travel. Garden. Eat.
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the Reader Appreciation Award from
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the Liebster Blog Award from
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the Super Sweet Blogging Award from
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the Blog on Fire Award from
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the No Strings Attached Gratitude Award from
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the R.E.A.L.I.T.Y. Blog Award from
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the Shine On Award from
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the Wonderful Team Member Readership Award from
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the Inspiring Blog Award from
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the Sunshine Award from
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the Adventurous Blogger Award from
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the Blog of the Year 2012 Award from
- Anotherdayinparadise
- Anotherdayinparadise
- The Palladian Traveler
- Nizy’s Life Compendium
- a hectic life
- Alastair’s Blog
- beebeesworld
- Living and Lovin
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These are all wonderful blogs that we read regularly, and we urge all our other readers to check them out!
These awards each have their own rules to follow and various questions to answer. We did that in our earlier awards posts (here, here, and here). But to do it again now for 16 different awards is beyond our strength, and most likely beyond our readers’ patience. ;-)
So we’ll simply go on to what we take to be the most valuable part of all this award-giving—to nominate for these awards, in turn, the blogs that we are most inspired by, both to acknowledge our enjoyment of them and to point them out for our other readers.
And there are many of them—just as well, since there are many awards to distribute! (And, no doubt, we’ll still find that we’ve inadvertently omitted some favorite, but infrequently published blog—apologies!)
Here’s our list, in alphabetical order ;-)
- 23thorns
- Alice through the Macro Lens
- Allyson Mellone
- Anotherdayinparadise
- Artifacts and fictions
- ArtBea
- At Home in the Hebrides
- A Word in Your Ear
- A year in the Life
- Backpackology
- bluebrightly
- captureford
- Cee’s Photography
- Chicquero
- Choose My Way
- Compass & Camera
- composerinthegarden
- Cornwall—A Photographic Journey
- Creativity Aroused
- Edith Levy Photography
- ElJaygee
- Fenland Photos
- Flickr Comments
- forest forward (Mazzarella Photo)
- Four Deer Oak
- Garden Walk, Garden Talk
- garyschollmeier
- grishmanphotography
- Healthcare Updates
- Hellboy2503’s Foto-Blog
- hovercraftdoggy
- Ian Spagnolo Photography
- ilargia64
- Jeff Sinon Photography
- John Todaro Imagecurrent
- Land-Sea-Sky—Lathail
- Life in the Bogs
- Lightscapes Nature Photography Blog
- Lucid Gypsy
- Lust & Rum
- lyndamichele
- Mike Hardisty Photography
- Milners Blog
- Mirth and Motivation
- MJF Images
- MJ Springett
- Morgan Wiltshire Photography
- mothergrogan
- Nature on the Edge
- Old Woman on a Bicycle
- Out walking the dog
- patriciaddrury
- Petra’s 365 photographs
- Photo avant-garde
- Photo Nature Blog
- Portraits of Wildflowers
- Postcards from Colorado
- retireediary
- Richard Sugden Photography
- Richert Images
- Rodposse.
- Ron Mayhew Photography
- Ruth E Hendricks Photography
- Sébastien Ouvry Photographies
- Shimmering Grains
- studiolightblue
- The Eco and the Id
- The eternal solitude of the restless Mind
- The Palladian Traveler
- The Quotidian Hudson
- The Serenity Space
- The (Urban-Wildlife) Interface
- The Urge to Wander
- The Wanderlust Gene
- The World according to Dina
- Travel Photography by Dmitrii Lezine
- Vastly Curious
- veronika hjorths bilder
- West Coast Kayaker
- Where’s my backpack?
- Words
- Writing Between the Lines
- yi-ching lin photography
- Yoolies Journeys
- Zeebra Designs & Destinations
We know that some of you on this list may not be inclined to accept awards—we’ve still included you to thank you for inspiring and delighting us! But if you are so inclined, pick out any of the awards that we have at our disposal—or two, or three…!—and add it to your collection!
Vladimir Brezina (RIP) 
Johna Till Johnson
Wind Against Current 
wow how awesome!
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We thought so! Thanks for posting.
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Johna and Vlad — I don’t always give awards but when (and if) I do your blog would win “Favorite blog of Frank Winters.” Hands down. None better. Congratulations on all your accolades — you earned them!
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Right back at you, Frank! We love your idiosyncratic view of the city–and I’m a fellow Pretenders fan :-)
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And we love your new photography blog!
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Many Thanks, Vlad.
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Of course I accept! Thank you!
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You are most welcome, vastlycurious! We very much enjoy your blog.
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Why thank you..shy smile..coming from you both..
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What a great idea! And thank you for nominating my blog :)
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You’re most welcome!
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You rock “Wind Against Current”! It’s an honor that you visit my site.
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Thanks!! :-)
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Congratulations on all of your well-deserved awards! And thank you so much for nominating my blog. I truly appreciate the honor. :)
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The honor is all ours, Robin—yours is one of the blogs we truly admire!
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I second Robin’s comment — congratulations and thank you. : )
BTW, Vladimir, have I ever told you that my dad is from the Czech Republic?? I noticed you’re from there as well! I didn’t grow up speaking the language unfortunately, but I would love to learn someday soon. My family and I may be visiting Prague this summer!!
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You’ll have fun!! I haven’t been there for a long time, and I don’t speak Czech all that well either any more—so it may be time for me, too, to visit soon…
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Ano, děkuji! :D Perhaps our paths will unknowingly cross. What a small world!
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Možná… It is indeed! :-)
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I finally found some time to accept one of those awards..thank you somuch for the nomination!!
here is the link!
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You are most welcome—well deserved! I thought you might pick that one—completes the set ;-)
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haha yeah..I had 4 of them and I wanted to complete it..and I think two days after your nomination..J.E. sent me the last one..and I say..here I am..:)!
Thank you so much..you deserve it too..!!
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Thank you! :-)
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Congratulations on these well deserved awards! Thank you so much for including my blog in your nominations!
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You are most welcome, and welcome back! We’ve missed you! :-)
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Oh, thank you so much Vladimir! I really appreciate that!
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Some blog!! Good on you for sharing your success… and sharing around the nominations! Thanks too, for paying OMBH random visits… ;-)
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You are most welcome, aj! Discovering new blogs is what these photo challenges are most useful for, I find… :-)
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