Photo Contest - Annoyingly Irritating (8/10-8/16)

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The discussion centers around a photo contest themed "Annoyingly Irritating," inviting participants to submit digital photos that capture something they find annoying. Contest rules specify that submissions must be original, resized to 800 x 600 or 600 x 800 pixels, and limited to one photo per member. Editing is restricted to minor adjustments in brightness and contrast, with no extensive modifications allowed. Photos must be uploaded to a photo server and linked in the contest thread. At the end of the contest, a poll will determine the winner, and only submitted photos can be used once in the contest. The conversation also highlights personal experiences of annoyance, such as interruptions during significant moments, emphasizing the contest's theme.
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Do you have something, or have you snapped a photo of something that you find annoying and/or irritating? That's what we want to see!

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.
 
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I just took this picture of my computer screen which shows an example of how I find it really annoying when people start photo threads that I can't find any images for.

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Final day to submit your photo for this contest, or phinds will win this by default!

Zz.
 
OK, this annoyed the heck out of me because I almost got one of the best, most perfect shot of the fireworks. But this guy walked right in front of me during the show and ruined the shot!

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Zapper, I'm glad you posted something because it would annoy me to win by default. :-p
 
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