Contest Definition and 467 Threads

Hello stranger![/color][/size] Photos of people you don't know. [SIZE="4"]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...

Wheels[/color][/size] Wheels are the theme this week. Sorry it's late. [SIZE="4"]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...

Motion[/color][/size] Photos that convey a sense of movement or motion please. [SIZE="4"]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...

Alphabetical order[/color][/size] Person one posts something beginning with A, person two posts something beginning with B, then C and so on and so forth. [SIZE="4"]Contest Rules: 1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest...

1.Marzena 2.ZapperZ 3.Equate http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/6771/bellagio.jpg 4.Signerror 5.MattRSK 6.Turbo-1 7.Galatea 8.Andre 9.Matthyaouw 10.Borek Contest Thread

This year's gravity essay contest results are in: http://www.gravityresearchfoundation.org/announcements.html The five winning papers are published in the International Journal of Modern Physics D: http://www.worldscinet.com/cgi-bin/details.cgi?id=jsname:ijmpd&type=all along with...

New FQXi contest: "What's Ultimately Possible in Physics?" http://fqxi.org/community/essay

Night lights[/color][/size] Photos at night, with things that are light. Interpret as creatively as you like. [SIZE="4"]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...

Info coming soon, have to go to lunch. ----- Materials we are Given: Raw Egg 2 Full Sheets of Newspaper 2 Rubber Bands 6 Toothpicks Glue (Unlimited) ----- You can only use materials from parts department. Materials cannot be returned. You must eb able to take capsule apart during...

Wet foot photography[/color][/size] Wet foot photography is as follows. There's something you want to photograph. The best positon to photograph it from presents a significant risk of ending up in a body of water. You decide to go for it anyway. You can see where this is going... This week's...

1.Binzing 2.Turbo-1 3.ZapperZ 4.Jtbell http://web.presby.edu/~jtbell/images/DSC_0494.jpg 5.Borek 6.Andre 7.Matthyaouw Contest Thread

Duck Duck Goose [SIZE="4"]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...

Jettys, piers, slipways... I hope this week's theme isn't too narrow... I think piers etc make really interesting subjects for photographs. Hopefully you guys agree and have plenty of things to submit. [SIZE="4"]Contest Rules: 1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to...

1.ZapperZ 2.Lisab 3.Turbo-1 4.Edward http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/6669/scan90009009vc5.jpg 5.Junglebeast http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/1266/4legs.png 6.Borek 7.Marzena 8.Hypatia http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j269/hypatia3811/Picture011-1.jpg...

Four legs good, two legs bad Something (or things) with 4 legs this week. [SIZE="4"]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...

Easter! Easter time again. Show me anything easter-related. Explain the connection if it's not obvious. [SIZE="4"]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...

Low turn out this week. Vote for the best. 1.Binzing 2.ZapperZ Contest thread

Sorry I'm late with this one! Without further delay: Footprints in time Something featuring footprints this week Next week's theme shall be (surprise surprise) Easter, so I'm just giving you guys a heads up to make sure you don't miss any photo opportunities that arise this week...

Rock my world As the self-confessed geology geek that I am, I love rocks. Pictures of stones, rocks, crags, outcrops, clifs, pebbles, etc... [SIZE="4"]Contest Rules: 1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case...

I think this is too damned funny! :smile: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hVxsBGs7scxZSkcCE1cL2B4BlECAD974D8800

Flower Power Flower time! Yeah! [SIZE="4"]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...

It's hip to be square Square(s) please. How hip a square is entirely up to you. [SIZE="4"]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...

Apparently Mensa and the Washington Post put together a contest (that I wish I would have known about), and asked participants to change or add a letter to a pre-existing word and define their new word. Some of these are hilarious: The winners are: 1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a...

I struggle sometimes to think up good themes for the contest that we haven't already had. If anyone has an idea for a contest theme they'd like to see, please put it forward here. We have already had: -Your City/Neighborhood -Food -Things that go bump in the night -I love a man/woman in...

Abandonment Show me some building or structure that's abandoned, derelict or otherwise empty [SIZE="4"]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...

You taking me for a ride? Photos taken from a moving vehicle. [SIZE="4"]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...

1.Hypatia 2.JasonRox http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/1456/img0460.jpg 3.Mororvia http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/2161/res01644.jpg 4.Integral 5.Binzing 6.Marzena 7.GeorginaS 8.ZapperZ 9.Andre 10.Brewnog 11.Borek 12.Shramana...

[SIZE="6"]Beaches Pictures from the beach [SIZE="4"]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...

1. Turbo-1 2. Marzena 3. Ben Niehoff 4. Hypatia 5. Andre 6. Matthyaouw 7. Borek Contest thread

[SIZE="6"]Creepy-crawlies Insecty, spidery, bug-like things please. [SIZE="4"]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...

http://fqxi.org/community/vote Summer 2008 FQXi started an essay contest, about the nature of time. They say they will announce the winners (first prize, second prize, etc...) in February 2008. Which is half thru already. Here's the essay context FAQ http://fqxi.org/community/essay/faq Does...

[SIZE="6"]Valentines Feb 14th is upon us again. Hearts, love, soppy tat. You know the drill. Since valentines day is the Saturday, I'll leave this open for entries til Sunday. [SIZE="4"]Contest Rules: 1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be...

[SIZE="6"]China I meant to do this contest last week to coincide with Chinese new year, but I forgot. Better late than never. Photos that represent some aspect of China or Chinese culture please. [SIZE="4"]Contest Rules: 1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the...

I'm going through the 2007 Physics Olympiad F=ma test tonight (first 27 questions). It's available http://www.aapt.org/Contests/upload/olympiad_2007_fnet_ma.pdf" , if you're wondering. I'll post my attempts here as I get to them. Tell me what I'm doing right or wrong. I don't really know this...

[SIZE="6"]Something old, something new Show me a photo that has an old thing and a new thing as its subjects. Anything you like, and it's your call about what counts as old and new. [SIZE="4"]Contest Rules: 1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be...

1.Brewnog 2.Hypatia 3.Chi Meson 4.Binzing 5.Edward http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/5218/1000859jpgfirejb3.jpg 6.ZapperZ 7.Andre 8.Glondor 9.Jaredm2012 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/nintenboy5/Nihon066.jpg 10.Marzena 11.Borek...

[SIZE="6"]I'm on fire! Photos featuring bonfires, fireplaces, candles... as long as something's burning, your photo is in. [SIZE="4"]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...

Gravity's Race/ Contest... Who wins? [SIZE="4"]Click on attachment and post your answer:smile: [SIZE="4"]You'll be amazed! [SIZE="4"]Winner Willie [SIZE="4"]or...

Hi everybody, I would like to inform you about the new international physics contest for university students (and advanced high school students). Its name is "Prague Physics Challenge" and it's a sort of "correspondence seminary" - you are supposed to send your solutions via e-mail and you will...

[SIZE="6"]Churches & the like Churches, chapels, synagogues, mosques, temples etc... Any photos of places of worship. [SIZE="4"]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...

multiple choice voting again. 1. Edward http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/3271/1000692jpgwideopengv6.jpg 2. Holocene 3. Mororvia http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/2499/res01692hu0.jpg 4. ZapperZ http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1856/img0220vf8.jpg 5. Monique 6...

Sorry if I posted in the wrong place. Does anyone know where to get the Sir Isaac Newton contest solutions 2007? The site has solutions for 2008, but not of previous years. Thanks.

I've been practicing for 2009 F=ma contest (Physics Olympiad preliminary test) by doing 2008 test but the last 10 problems are TOUGH I couldn't solve any of them correctly Can anyone help me with them?

[SIZE="6"]I'm in a wide open space This week, show me photos of any wide-open space. [SIZE="4"]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...

Multiple choice again. Vote for your fave(s) 1.Edward http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/250/1001102jpgchristmasflowde4.jpg 2.LennoxLewis http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1387/img0016lowresra7.jpg 3.ZapperZ 4.Marzena 5.Borek 6.Matthyaouw 7.Hypatia...

[SIZE="6"]New year, new photo Last month I barely took my camera out, so for 2009 I'm going to promise myself I'll do better. This week I want everyone to go out and take a NEW photo. No restrictions on subject, it just has to have been taken within the contest period- no recycled pictures...

1.Andre 2.ZapperZ 3.Edward http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/1705/1001058jpgtractorij0.jpg 4.Hypatia http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j269/hypatia3811/tree2.jpg 5.Borek 6.Marzena 7.Glondor 8.Turbo-1 Contest thread

[SIZE="6"]It's (almost) Christmas! Since it's that time of year and I am feeling horrrendously uninspired, the theme is Christmas. Enjoy! [SIZE="4"]Contest Rules: 1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case...

Multiple choice again :-) 1. Brewnog 2. Edward http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/8692/scan500050050001jpgsnowvo4.jpg 3. Hypatia http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j269/hypatia3811/rocks.jpg 4. Integral 5. Christina...

[SIZE="6"]Winter weather The weather here has been foul lately. Show me some winter weather. That's not exclusively snow and ice. Whatever characterises the weather at this time of year where the photo was taken. [SIZE="4"]Contest Rules: 1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo...