Photo Contest - Spring Flowers (4/11-4/17)

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Discussion Overview

The thread discusses a photo contest centered around capturing images of live spring flowers. Participants are invited to submit their photographs, adhering to specific contest rules regarding submission and editing. The conversation includes personal anecdotes and reflections on flowers, as well as reminders about submission deadlines.

Discussion Character

  • Contest-related, Exploratory, Personal anecdotes

Main Points Raised

  • Participants are encouraged to submit photos of live flowers, with specific guidelines on photo size and editing.
  • One participant shares a personal story about a cactus they owned, referring to it as a "watch cactus."
  • Another participant mentions their orchids that are currently flowering.
  • There is a note about the contest being competitive and the challenges of voting due to the quality of submissions.
  • A participant expresses the idea that even weeds can possess beauty.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the contest rules and the theme of live flowers, but there are no explicit disagreements noted. The discussion remains focused on personal experiences and the contest itself.

Contextual Notes

Participants are reminded of the submission deadlines, and there is an emphasis on the honor system regarding the originality of the photos submitted.

Who May Find This Useful

Individuals interested in photography, particularly of flowers, and those who enjoy participating in community contests may find this discussion relevant.

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Spring Flowers

It is Spring time in the Northern Hemisphere. So we want your photos of flowers!

These must be live flowers, i.e. they are still attached to the plants, not cut flowers.

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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will this work??
 
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Suraj M said:
will this work??

Yup!

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I had one of these planted in a big pot on my porch when I lived in town and just out of college. Called it my "watch cactus". Worked better than ADT IMO.
 
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My orchids that are flowering right this very moment.

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This is shaping to be a very difficult contest when the voting comes around. You have 2 days left to submit your photos.

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Final day for submission to this photo contest.

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Even weeds have beauty.

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