the Merlin Locations icon fest comes to a close

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I was absolutely delighted at how our Merlin Locations icon fest worked out. Here's some stats, because I'm dorky that way: 

• We had a total of 201 icons posted. Hurrah!
• Pierrefonds featured in 89 of those 201 icons.
• Including Pierrefonds, the icons covered 18 different locations.
• The icons were created by me and five lovely iconographers: archaeologist_d, gealach_ros, luisadeza, nenimefish, and yavannauk. Thank you, my darlings!
• We all used our own photos, which I think is awesome, along with some beautiful photos taken by our sweet gwy.

I have now uploaded 104 of the icons to our userpic page. You can see them here!

I made sure that all the locations and all the iconographers were represented. Otherwise, I tried to choose a range of styles and subjects, and also considered which ones were mentioned most in comments. Oh, and obviously I had to include the one with Colin in it. (If any of the iconographers would have preferred me to make a different decision about their own icons, please get in touch! My judgement is hardly infallible, alas...)

I am now pondering whether / how to include the icons (all 201 of them!) on the website and/or Flickr group. If anyone has any thoughts on that, I'd appreciate hearing them. In any case, I wouldn't upload anything without the iconographer's permission.

Thank you all for participating, whether with icons, admiration or comments. While the icon fest is over for now, I hope you will all feel free to post or link to your locations icons here!

P.S. And now we only have to wait another 191 days until the third season begins... 
 
ETA: Have just finished uploading all the icons to the website. You can find them here! Thank you all again! I've really enjoyed this.