PF Photo Contest (12/11-12/17) - Holiday Lights

ZapperZ

Holiday Lights

It is the time of the year where many parts of the world decorates for the holiday season. The theme this week focuses specifically on holiday LIGHTS. The lights can be for any type of holidays, so if your picture is of an obscure holiday that many of us are unfamiliar with, you must accompany that picture with a brief explanation.

Good luck!

Contest Rules:

1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable, check with me first.

2. Please resize your digital photo to no more than 650 x 490 or 490 x 650 pixels. You may also crop your picture if you wish. You are also allowed to adjust the brightness and contrast of your picture but these should not dramatically alter the look of the picture. But other than those, any form of picture editing or modification is not allowed. This is a photo contest, not a picture editing/special effect contest. You may add a watermark or your name/nickname to the photo for identification purposes.

3. Upload your photos to any of the photo servers such as imageshack or photobucket. Then post it the relevant contest thread and link your picture using the img command. PM me if you do not know how.

4. Only ONE picture per member per contest. Once a picture is posted, it cannot be changed other than a total withdrawl by that member from that week's photo contest. Exceptions will be made for modification to comply with the rules, such as resizing.

5. At the end of the contest period, I will open a poll and every PF member can vote for the picture they like best.

6. Note that in case we have a large number of entries, I will do the polling in more than one thread. If that's the case, you can vote in each of the polling threads. The photos will be assigned in the polling threads in the order they were submitted.

7. These pictures must be something that you took, not something taken off someone else's photo albums or taken by someone else. I have no way of checking if you did this, so we'll go by the honor system.

8. You can use a picture only once. Once it is used in a contest, it cannot be reused in another contest.

9. Please post only pictures meant for submission in this thread[/QUOTE]

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Andre

Not going very fast this time it seems. I'm planning to make my contribution on Thursday.

ZapperZ

Wow! Didn't realize this was a tough contest!

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turbo

I went to Skowhegan to take pictures of the flood and was standing on the Upper Margaret Chase Smith bridge looking at the North Channel dam wide-open when I saw the clear tubes of L.E.D.s that the town attaches to the guard-rails every Christmas and thought what a lame entry this picture would be.

Anyway, low-lying areas are under a flood watch until Wednesday morning. I can't see any snow left on the Western mountains, so all that water is headed our way, too. 3" of rain at about 50 deg falling on a soft-open snow-pack... Glad I live on a hill.

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FlexGunship

Yes, it's an ice fort; yes, it was a Christmas party; yes, it's entirely lit by candles; and yes, I have more pictures.

Mororvia

I usually prefer to submit pictures taken with a real camera... but this will have to do for this contest!

Andre

Christmas lights in the Charles Dickens Christmas carol diorama

ZapperZ

Final day to submit a photo for this contest!

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Borg

US National Christmas Tree

Borek

Just to increase number of entries, this was taken two years ago and it is just a general view, not aimed at the contest. We may be able to take better pictures next week - but it will be too late.

FlexGunship

Grr... no fair. I wanted to win. Those are awesome pictures.

turbo

Rest assured that you won't come in last!!!

I've got that locked up.

Andre

Christmas should not be an arena of battles with winners nor losers

turbo

You're absolutely right. The use of plurals in such an endeavor is out of bounds. There can be ONLY ONE!!!

chingkui

Taken last year Christmas.