Photo Contest - Happy New Year 2012 (12/31-1/6)

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Discussion Overview

The thread discusses a photo contest themed around New Year celebrations for the year 2012. Participants are invited to submit digital photos that either depict the number "2012" or represent typical New Year festivities. The discussion includes contest rules, submission guidelines, and participant engagement.

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Main Points Raised

  • The contest theme focuses on New Year celebrations, with specific guidelines for photo submissions outlined by the host, Zz.
  • Participants are reminded that only one photo submission per member is allowed, and photos must be original works taken by the submitter.
  • There is a concern expressed about the lack of photo submissions, with a participant noting that it could be the first contest without any entries.
  • Another participant comments on the perceived lack of recognition for hosting contests, suggesting that it does not lead to nominations for community awards.
  • Zz indicates that there will be no poll for this contest, which may imply a lack of entries or interest.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

The discussion reflects a general concern about the low participation in the contest, with no consensus on the reasons for this or how to encourage submissions.

Contextual Notes

The thread does not provide clarity on the reasons for the lack of submissions, nor does it explore potential solutions or alternative engagement strategies.

Who May Find This Useful

Members interested in photography contests, community engagement, or New Year celebrations may find this discussion relevant.

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Happy New Year 2012[/color][/size]

Wow! How the year just flew by!

Our theme this week is on the new year. It can either show clearly the number "2012", or on any kind of New Year-type celebration. Please make sure photos of a celebration must have a clear association with a typical New Year party.

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 800 x 600 or 600 x 800 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. Photos not meant for submission must not be posted in the contest thread. Posting of more than one photos by a member may result in an automatic disqualification from the week's contest.

Zz
 
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Final day to submit a photo for this contest. This could be the first contest without any photo submission.

Zz.
 
Well for what it's worth, you only need one reminder that one will never win the weekly most popular PF member contest plus that hosting the contest for a consirable amount of time does not even earn a nomination for community spirit award, so what would you expect?
 
:biggrin: What a busy year. :p
 
Well, this is easy. No poll for this contest.

Next!

Zz.
 

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