What Is the Theme for This Week's Photo Contest?

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This thread discusses the theme for the weekly photo contest, which is inspired by the Olympic rings, focusing on photographs that depict geometrical shapes of rings or circles. Participants are invited to submit their entries and adhere to specific contest rules regarding photo submissions.

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Main Points Raised

  • The contest theme is centered around the geometrical shape of rings or circles, as inspired by the Olympics.
  • One participant shares a photo of a falling metal ring, noting challenges with lighting and background quality.
  • Another participant submits a photo of snack food, humorously commenting on the imperfect ring shape and its current status in digestion.
  • A third participant mentions a photo of used copper gaskets, which may or may not fit the theme as intended.
  • There is a reminder from the contest organizer about the final day for photo submissions.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants have submitted various interpretations of the theme, but there is no consensus on the suitability of some entries, as the quality and relevance to the theme may vary.

Contextual Notes

Participants are encouraged to clarify any uncertainties regarding the theme or submission rules with the contest organizer, as some entries may fall into gray areas of the theme's interpretation.

Who May Find This Useful

Members interested in photography contests, those looking to engage creatively with themes, and participants of the Physics Forums community may find this discussion relevant.

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With the 2016 Rio Games finally underway, this week's contest is inspired by the interlocking Olympics rings. The theme this week is on the geometrical shape of rings or circles. The main subject of your photo must be in the shape of rings or circles.

Good luck!

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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Falling ring. A metal ring from some of my old magic stuff shot at a .5 sec exposure and lit by an strobe light. The back ground material is not as black as I would have liked, and the strobe light is from our Halloween decorations, so its maximum flash rate was not optimum, but it didn't come out too bad.
 
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Edible rings (snack food). Not perfect rings, but I hope they qualify. Ring status: they are now being digested in my stomach.
 
Final day to submit your photo for this contest.

Zz.
 
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A bunch of used, copper gaskets.

Zz.
 

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