The winning guesses for the January contest

Way to ruin a great contest, Boston.com. I'd be especially tweaked if I was the first one to guess "martini glass", but you took "martini glass with blue base" over it. That first guess nailed it. You'd have to be completely color blind to not get the "blue" part, so I'm with the first guesser ... it was unnecessary to mention it.

As I said before, I feel the open-ended subject matter of a "What is it?" themed contest resulted in the best outcome yet. I haven't been a big fan of the judging on a lot of the specific-themed contests, but a wide-open category like this kind of lends itself to unbiased judging, imho. I think you should repeat this theme regularly.

Um, SF48, the photographers chose the winners, not Boston.com. I think they all made good choices.

This theme was so popular that I'm thinking of doing it every January.

Yeah, my apologies for taking the whole thing a bit too seriously here. I never have been a big fan of guessing games. My bad.

I'd love to see this theme more than once a year. It just lends itself to the most wonderful pictures overall, I think.

Thanks for all your effort, Teresa. It's a monumental task, and we can all just sit back and watch. I've derived a lot of enjoyment from RAW since its inception. May it last and prosper.

No apologies needed. I appreciate -- and recognize -- the passion of everyone who's involved in this obsession of ours. I wouldn't have it any other way.