Photo Contest - A Man's Home Is His Castle (5/26-6/1)

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The thread discusses a photo contest themed "A Man's Home Is His Castle," inviting participants to submit photos that reflect this theme. The conversation includes interpretations of the theme, submission rules, and personal reflections on participants' homes.

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Main Points Raised

  • Participants are encouraged to submit a photo that reflects the theme, with specific rules regarding photo size and editing outlined by the contest organizer, Zz.
  • One participant mentions the Biltmore in Asheville, NC, as their interpretation of the theme.
  • Another participant expresses doubt about their ability to find a suitable photo, stating their home is not a castle but a log construction they describe as a bunker.
  • A participant shares a photo of a castle, discussing its historical significance and connection to their ancestry, despite it not being their property.
  • There are logistical challenges mentioned regarding photo uploads, with one participant experiencing difficulties using a photo hosting service.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express varying interpretations of the theme and personal connections to the concept of home, with no consensus on what constitutes a suitable submission. Some participants feel uncertain about their entries, while others share their perspectives on the theme.

Contextual Notes

The discussion includes specific rules for photo submissions, which may limit participants' interpretations of the theme. Additionally, some participants express uncertainty about their ability to meet the contest requirements.

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It's a common phrase that many of us have heard. This time, you get to interpret it in photos. Send in your best photo that that clearly reflects our theme.

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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Hum... must be a difficult theme.

Anyway, this is the Biltmore in Ashville, NC.

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Zz.
 
Less than 2 days left for this contest, and ... ?

Zz.
 
...and Zz is a sure winner.

Browsed my pictures, but nothing fits.
 
My home is no castle. Due to its all-log construction, it is a bunker, but it's not fancy in the least.
 
I'll have one tonight.
 
And here it is.

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Final day to submit your photo for this contest.

Zz.
 
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Hope you can see - I'm having a bit of difficulty stably uploading my pics via tinypic from where I am recently. It comes and goes, the address is http://i45.tinypic.com/zt9e2c.jpg with IMG [] thingies around it.

The above is not: a great pic; my property; or where I live.

It is: a castle; one with the idea that only the authorised can get into it. This is the central part (keep or donjon) which you can see surrounded by a deep moat of an overall very large and high structure. Very hard for hostile forces to get into. Actually it was never tried, but all the more it successfully served its purpose. Though it is not mine I deduce it is more likely than not that some of my ancestors frequented it when it was functioning, though it would not have been theirs either. I deduce that from the fact that family names in the maternal line are those of the small town where it is and of which the castle was the main raison d'etre.

Enough to qualify it for entry in the competion IMO.
 
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