For the competition of finding the closest location of where this photo was taken...

I was really happy to see people making use of AI tools (and that was sort of the plan of the contest). But you would also have to make use of your "Brains" :D

Yes, AI is nice, but we need to outsmart AI sometimes. Anyhow, I am not implying any names here. Just saying that we need to validate what AI tools tell us and make sure we understand what it's saying to us. Very very important!

The players that I considered for this giveaway of 23.937 HP delegation (from @atexoras.rewards account) for 1 full year, are:

@angeluxx 41°17'45.7"S 174°45'59.9"E (-41.296033, 174.766645)
@suisver 41°17'45.2"S 174°46'14.6"E (-41.295880, 174.770720)
@new.things -41.2935903, 174.7718413
@fnzcmd -41.29323701325055, 174.77010213267513
@cositav -41.298909, 174.7771493
@danideuder 41°17'43.2"S 174°46'25.7"E (-41.295333, 174.773806)
@luchyl -41.29635, 174.77510
@caspermoeller89 -41.293223,174.770058
@stresskiller -41.2931488,174.7697547

Here are your locations! In the map...
https://maps.app.goo.gl/hUh1hNubRhq2DMfa8

Not that the size of this picture is very clear (below, and that's why I decided to share the map), but I have tried to mark everyone's locations from the coordinates you gave me. And in this picture (map below), I have pointed with red arrows these locations.

The closest guesses were from @fnzcmd, @caspermoeller89 and @stresskiller.

As a zoomed map view for greater detail:

And the geo map coordinates:

Hence, the closest was @stresskiller !

There are some stairs going up after the end of the road, and I started going up and then leaned so I could take a zoomed picture of the road view. And if you don't take the zoom into consideration, it becomes quite deceptive.

Next time, I might choose another form of deception.

Was this fun? Any feedback is always welcome, obviously.