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The thread discusses a photo contest centered around the theme of fireworks, coinciding with New Year celebrations. Participants are invited to submit digital photos that fit the contest rules, which include specifications on photo size, editing, and submission procedures.

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Main Points Raised

  • Participants are reminded of the contest rules, including photo submission guidelines and restrictions on editing.
  • One participant expresses enthusiasm about taking photos from their roof at midnight during the New Year.
  • Another participant mentions the affordability of visiting Poland due to the weak Polish złoty, suggesting it as a good time for travel.
  • A participant humorously notes the commonality of fireworks photos, encouraging others to share their images regardless of quality.
  • There is a reminder about the final day for submissions to the contest.

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Participants generally agree on the contest rules and the excitement surrounding the theme of fireworks, but there is no significant disagreement noted in the discussion.

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The discussion is limited to the context of the photo contest and does not delve into technical aspects of photography or fireworks.

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Members interested in photography, particularly those who enjoy capturing celebrations and fireworks, may find this thread useful.

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Happy New Year! And what is the most common way for many places to celebrate a new year? Why, with a large fireworks display, of course! So this week, it is all on fireworks!

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.

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There is nothing like taking pictures from the roof of your house exactly at midnight :wink:

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Borek said:
There is nothing like taking pictures from the roof of your house exactly at midnight :wink:
Some day I going to physically make it there. Mentally I'm already there, my long time PF friend.
 
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@dlgoff @Greg Bernhardt - actually now is a good time to visit Poland, Polish złoty is very weak making the visit quite cheap.
 
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Lots of smoke. As Wellington didn't say seeing a painting of the battle of Waterloo.

C'mon people, everyone has taken a picture of fireworks. They don't haven to be good - we just want to see in the year with a bang!.
 
Final day to create your own little fireworks for this contest.

Zz.
 

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