Thank you! I certainly thought so too at the time, but I soon had the wind taken out of my sails, lol.
I must have taken about 40 or 50 pictures whilst trying to get that near perfect shot. I took them over a 2-3 day period so a lot of time and effort went into that entry.
But like I said, unless the voter is familiar with the species, then they can't really factor in the difficulty level of getting such a shot.
Maybe I took it too seriously at the time, after all, back then there was a shiny camera emoji for the winner, lol.