Photo Contest - Cloudy, With A Chance Of Meatballs (6/25-7/1)

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This thread centers around a photo contest themed "Cloudy, With A Chance Of Meatballs," where participants are invited to submit photographs featuring clouds, meatballs, or a combination of both. The discussion includes contest rules, submission strategies, and participant interactions regarding their entries.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant expresses excitement about the contest and encourages submissions.
  • Another participant humorously notes the challenge of competing with a specific entry from a member named Borek.
  • A participant describes their creative approach to the contest by holding the camera upside-down to symbolize looking up for clouds and down for meatballs.
  • Another participant shares a photo that they believe resembles meatballs, though it is unclear if this aligns with the contest theme.
  • Several participants engage in light-hearted banter about the contest and their submissions.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the contest rules and express enthusiasm for the theme. However, there are varying interpretations of how to creatively approach the theme, and no consensus exists on the best submission or approach.

Contextual Notes

Some participants mention the humorous aspects of their submissions, indicating a playful interpretation of the contest theme. There are also references to family reactions, which may influence the creative process.

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Members interested in photography contests, creative photography techniques, or those who enjoy playful themes in art may find this discussion engaging.

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]Cloudy, With A Chance Of Meatballs[/color][/size]

This week's contest should be rather interesting. Your photos must have, as it's main subject, either clouds, or meatballs (i.e. the food), or a combination of both! How about them apples, eh?! :)

Good luck!

Zz.

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

Zz.
 
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Good that you have not posted new contest AFTER our dinner.

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ZapperZ said:
This week's contest should be rather interesting.

Indeed! I look forward to the submissions!
 
Well there's just no way to compete with that, Borek
 
dav2008 said:
Well there's just no way to compete with that, Borek

Ain't that the truth :smile:!
 
In order to comply with the contest rules, I held the camera upside-down (as opposed to electronically flipping the image):

[PLAIN]http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/2908/dsc7794.jpg

I wanted to play with the idea that I have to look *up* to see clouds, but *down* to see meatballs. My family mocked me for quite some time while I was setting this up...
 
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Clouds, but without chance of the meatballs :smile:
 
Cloudy, with a chance of hail the size of meatballs.

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Zz.
 
Final day to submit a photo for this contest.

Zz.
 
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Andy Resnick said:
In order to comply with the contest rules, I held the camera upside-down (as opposed to electronically flipping the image):

[PLAIN]http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/2908/dsc7794.jpg

I wanted to play with the idea that I have to look *up* to see clouds, but *down* to see meatballs. My family mocked me for quite some time while I was setting this up...

Evidently the mocking was worth it, because the end product is super-cool.
 
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GeorginaS said:
Evidently the mocking was worth it, because the end product is super-cool.

Thanks! The mocking stopped when they got to eat. :)
 

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