Contest: we're done! (Plus: If you're still waiting for us to post your photo...)

We've finished posting the contest entries to our photo gallery. Whew! While the gallery's creaking a bit under the strain (we've had more traffic to our web site in the last few days than we ever have before), we still encourage you to check out the final submissions. We netted out at 189 entries, about 140 of which came in over the last two days. This was a lot more than we expected, but that's great. People really got into this contest, and we love to see that. It was fun for us. Now to go back through them and get them organized for Misako and Akira!

Important: if you submitted an entry and are still waiting for us to post it, that means we missed it. As far as we know, we're done. We've posted all the entries we have, we've dealt with all the questions we had about anything we weren't sure about, and everything's all taken care of. So if you submitted and haven't heard anything, or you answered a question we had and we still haven't posted your photo, please remind us. We've gone back through and re-checked everything, but we just want to make sure nobody got missed. All the accepted entries that we have should be in our gallery by now.

On the other hand, if you do see your photo in our gallery but haven't received an email notification, check your spam folder. We notified every single person that we posted to the gallery, and we included the 10% off discount code promised in the rules.

Good luck to everyone!