Photo Contest - Fruits Of Your Labor (7/27-8/2)

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This thread discusses a photo contest themed "Fruits Of Your Labor," where participants are invited to submit photos of their personal projects, such as gardening, cooking, or building. The conversation includes clarifications on contest rules, submissions, and technical issues related to photo hosting and resizing.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant emphasizes that the contest is strictly for photos, not drawings, and cites Rule #7 regarding submission qualifications.
  • Another participant argues that a drawing can qualify since it is a photo of something they worked on, suggesting it required significant effort.
  • A participant shares their experience of creating a high-quantum efficiency photocathode, detailing the extensive work involved.
  • Several participants describe their submissions, including balcony plants, cheese pies, and a saw bench made from specific types of wood.
  • Technical issues arise regarding photo size limits and hosting site problems, with suggestions for online resizing tools and alternative hosting platforms.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express disagreement over the interpretation of contest rules, particularly regarding what qualifies as an acceptable submission. There is no consensus on the inclusion of drawings as valid entries, and technical issues with photo submissions remain unresolved.

Contextual Notes

Some participants face limitations with their photo hosting services, leading to concerns about meeting the contest's size requirements. There are also unresolved discussions about the effort required for different types of submissions.

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Fruits Of Your Labor

Your photo must show something that you worked on. This may be something that you grew, something that you cooked, something that you built/assembled, etc. Your off-springs do not count. Neither is a photo of a long solution that you worked on from Jackson.

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. Alternatively, you may simply upload your image file to PF, and then have the full image displayed in your post.

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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Balcony plants in maximum entropy state.
 
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My first attempt at Greek-style little cheese pies. Their appearance is amateurish, but they are were just as tasty as my mom used to make them.

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JBA said:
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Concept Drawing of Tesla Turbine Based Automobile Engine (Hand drawing - Decades before CAD)

Please read the contest rules. This is a PHOTO contest, not a drawing contest. This entry does not qualify.

Zz.
 
OK, I understand, so just enjoy it as an example of past drafting art before CAD. Delete it if you wish.
 
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JBA said:
OK, I understand, so just enjoy it as an example of past drafting art before CAD. Delete it if you wish.
I found it qualified as it is not a drawing of something you worked out, but a photo of something you worked out: the drawing! Needed more effort than to plant something.
 
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A saw bench that I built of ash and cherry woods using only hand tools.
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fresh_42 said:
I found it qualified as it is not a drawing of something you worked out, but a photo of something you worked out: the drawing! Needed more effort than to plant something.

This has nothing to do with effort. In clarifying the contest, Rule #7 has not been suspended.

You're welcome to include it in your contest.

Zz.
 
After a year and half of planning, development, building, and testing the recipe, I managed to produce this high-quantum efficiency photocathode for the accelerator that I was working on. This was one of the first photos of inside the vacuum chamber after one of the growth process. It achieved at QE as high as 20% (as a reference, typical metals have QE of ~0.01% on a good day).

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There was a lot blood, sweat, and tears that went into this one.

Zz.
 
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I built the flower box my dog liked to sit in as a puppy.
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I made this for the occasion of my daughter earning her black belt using the boards she broke:

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marcusl said:
A saw bench that I built of ash and cherry woods using only hand tools.
It's straight. It's smooth. It's nice. Unlike most of the things I've done in wood. :smile:
 
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Final day to submit a photo of the fruits of your labor.

Zz.
 
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Part of our lemon crop from two trees on the terrace 2012.
My Picture hosting site has just ditched me and I have no idea how to adjust this in a short time if it exceeds what the rules say.

I think I have done that, see a few posts down, thanks to those who have helped
 
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epenguin said:
Part of our lemon crop from two trees on the terrace 2012.
My Picture hosting site has just ditched me and I have no idea how to adjust this in a short time if it exceeds what the rules say.
https://www.physicsforums.com/attachments/247557

Yes, the image exceeds the size limitation for the contest.

Zz.
 
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epenguin said:
My Picture hosting site has just ditched me
When life gives you lemons, change picture hosting site. Have you tried Flickr? I like that hosting site.
 
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epenguin said:
My Picture hosting site has just ditched me and I have no idea how to adjust this in a short time if it exceeds what the rules say.
You can do that easily using an online service. Just google "resize image online". One of my favourites (before I got my laptop) is picresize.com. Now I use IrfanView to edit/resize pictures.
 
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