Photo Contest - New Year's Resolution (12/25-12/31)

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The thread discusses a photo contest centered around the theme of New Year's resolutions, inviting participants to creatively capture their resolutions in photographs. The conversation includes contest rules, individual resolutions, and the appropriateness of submitted images in relation to the theme.

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Main Points Raised

  • Participants are encouraged to submit digital photos representing their New Year's resolutions, with specific rules regarding photo size and editing.
  • Some participants propose resolutions such as "cable management," "getting onto a hot air balloon," and "having a yard sale," while others express skepticism about the creativity of these resolutions.
  • One participant mentions a resolution to focus on important details in teaching, accompanied by a photo that raises questions about its relevance to the theme.
  • Another participant discusses the intention behind a photo of a Richardson resolution test slide, noting the use of puns but facing criticism for not aligning with the contest theme.
  • There is a humorous exchange regarding the absurdity of certain resolutions, particularly one related to becoming more diligent.
  • Participants share their experiences and the challenges of capturing their resolutions in a photograph.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

There is no consensus on the appropriateness of certain resolutions and their corresponding images. Some participants agree on the need for clarity in how resolutions are represented, while others challenge the relevance of specific submissions to the contest theme.

Contextual Notes

Some participants express uncertainty about whether their images adequately represent their resolutions, and there are discussions about the interpretation of the contest rules and theme.

Who May Find This Useful

Individuals interested in photography, creative expression, or New Year's resolutions may find this discussion engaging.

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New Year's Resolution[/color][/size]

With the dawn of another new year, many people will make their New Year's resolution. But can such resolutions be captured in pictures? See if you can be creative and capture some of the more popular new year's resolution.

Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!


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]

Zz.
 
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Two words: Cable Management

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Your new year's resolution is "cable management"?

Zz.
 
ZapperZ said:
Your new year's resolution is "cable management"?

Zz.

What? Is that not good enough? At least I'll follow through. Unlike those "go to the gym" guys.
 
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Edward: So what is the new year's resolution represented by your picture?

I suppose I should have included in this week's rules that one has to include the actual resolution with the picture.

Zz.
 
My New Year's resolution this year is to get onto a hot air balloon! I've never been in one and I think this year might be the year I tackle this one. I already have done parasailing last year, so that's off the list now.

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Zz.
 
ZapperZ said:
Edward: So what is the new year's resolution represented by your picture?

My new years resolution is to have the yard sale that I had put all of that stuff out for just before Thanksgiving. :biggrin:

I suppose I should have included in this week's rules that one has to include the actual resolution with the picture.

Zz.
 
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I hope it is clear :smile:
 
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Get caught up with chores on the property

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/1622/ditch.jpg

This is one section of the ~500 ft long ditch that I had to trench for power and water runs, when I converted my barn to an office. That was one heck of a lot of work!
 
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I don't want to become the bee, bee-keeper, producer of mead, and I don't want to do better photographs of bees:smile:
I want to be more diligent.
 
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You have to know Marzena to understand why this is an absurd resolution If she would want me to become more diligent, that would be fully understandable.
 
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I resolve to focus more clearly on important details, to keep my target firmly in mind at all times, to contrast important themes in class with good examples, and to increase the cutoff score for all students by minimizing aberrant test questions.

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Andy Resnick said:
I resolve to focus more clearly on important details, to keep my target firmly in mind at all times, to contrast important themes in class with good examples, and to increase the cutoff score for all students by minimizing aberrant test questions.

[PLAIN]http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/4269/23cbestfocus.png[/QUOTE]

Hum... OK... but how does your resolution matches the picture which appears to be a something one would use as a fiducial? Are you using it as a literal meaning of how one can measure a "resolution"?

{this is what happens when *I* too have used similar stuff}

Zz.
 
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No reed stalk

My resolution is to make this pic again without reed stalk in front of the chick that gets the fish (notice also the two chicks below the right wing).

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ZapperZ said:
Hum... OK... but how does your resolution matches the picture which appears to be a something one would use as a fiducial? Are you using it as a literal meaning of how one can measure a "resolution"?

{this is what happens when *I* too have used similar stuff}

Zz.

It's a (partial image of a) Richardson resolution test slide- the numbers are in microns. Puns (both literal and visual) were added at no charge. :)
 
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Andy Resnick said:
It's a (partial image of a) Richardson resolution test slide- the numbers are in microns. Puns (both literal and visual) were added at no charge. :)

But the picture itself does not conform to the theme, which is New Year's Resolution, not measurement resolution.

You have less than a day left to substitute that with another picture.

Zz.
 
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ZapperZ said:
But the picture itself does not conform to the theme, which is New Year's Resolution, not measurement resolution.

After seeing Andy's post and picture I was thinking he is a sure winner with the idea and puns.
 

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