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Discussion Overview

The thread discusses a photo contest focused on submitting intentionally bad pictures, where participants are encouraged to share humorous or poorly taken photos that were captured accidentally. The scope includes contest rules, participant interactions, and various humorous exchanges related to the theme of bad photography.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant expresses excitement about the contest and mentions the challenge of finding bad photos since they usually delete them.
  • Several posts reference "Schrödinger cats," with conflicting observations about their status, leading to humorous exchanges about their existence.
  • Another participant shares a humorous anecdote about an animal photo that did not meet expectations, suggesting that animals often do not cooperate for pictures.
  • There are multiple mentions of animal photos, indicating a trend among participants to submit such images.
  • Participants engage in playful banter regarding the nature of their photos and the contest theme.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the humorous nature of the contest and the theme of bad photography, but there are playful disagreements regarding the status of the "Schrödinger cats" and the effectiveness of animal subjects in photography.

Contextual Notes

The discussion includes references to specific contest rules and the nature of submissions, but there is no resolution on the quality or appropriateness of the photos being discussed.

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Members interested in photography, humor, or community contests may find this thread engaging.

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Bad Picture

This topic has always been one of the more popular and hilarious topics we have. Since it has been a long time since we had one, we will once again have a contest where you can be proud of the bad photos that you have snapped.

As before, this must be a photo that didn't turn out right, either overexposed, unfocused, a body part blocked the view, etc. These bad photos must have been taken by accident, not on purpose.

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. The photo of the subject must be something that you took directly, not via in intermediary medium, and not taken by someone else. Unless otherwise noted, a photo of another photo, painting, print, etc. does not qualify.

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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I've actually been waiting for a "Bad picture" contest...:smile: ...I will have to do some digging since I usually delete my baddies, but hopefully I will find some...:smile:
 
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(Two Schrödinger cats)
 
DennisN said:
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(Two Schrödinger cats)

I am so sorry. I observed them, and they are dead!

Zz.
 
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This is weird, I observed them and they are alive!
 
Dang. When I blinked, I thought I saw two cats. :olduhh:
 
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ZapperZ said:
I am so sorry. I observed them, and they are dead!
mfb said:
This is weird, I observed them and they are alive!
dlgoff said:
Dang. When I blinked, I thought I saw two cats.
:biggrin:
In reality* they are two alive, very adorable and social cats which belong to a friend of mine, and they are nowadays parents of four adorable kittens.
* Assuming Copenhagen interpretation.
 
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Andy Resnick said:
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Wow! Is this a scene from a horror movie?

Zz.
 
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ZapperZ said:
Wow! Is this a scene from a horror movie?

Zz.

Heh... she'll think so when I show it to her boyfriend (many, many, MANY, like INFINITE, years from now)
 
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It's not surprising that there are already some animal photos here. They just won't do as they're told!

Take Augustus, for example. I instructed him to smile for the camera. I got this.

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lisab said:
It's not surprising that there are already some animal photos here. They just won't do as they're told!

Take Augustus, for example. I instructed him to smile for the camera. I got this.

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Maybe Augustus does not want to be observed either!

Zz.
 
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That natural camouflage got the best of me.
 
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Final day to submit your photo for this contest.

Zz.
 
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Zz.
 

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