Photo Contest - Up In The Air (5/21-5/27)

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The photo contest theme for this week is "Up In The Air," requiring participants to submit images taken while physically airborne, such as in an airplane or hang-gliding. Ground attachments are not allowed, ruling out activities like zip-lining. Contest rules specify that only one photo per member is permitted, which must be original and not previously submitted in other contests. Photos should be resized to 800 x 600 or 600 x 800 pixels, with minimal editing allowed. Participants are encouraged to upload their images to photo servers and link them in the contest thread. Discussions have arisen regarding the inclusion of remote-controlled models, with a tentative allowance for such submissions until further clarification is provided. The contest concludes with a poll for members to vote on their favorite photo.
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Up In The Air

This week, your photo must be taken while you are "in the air". You may either be in an airplane, hang-gliding, or in the middle of plunging 50 stories down (ugh, don't do that!), but you must not be physically attached to anything on the ground. This means swinging from a tree branch or zip-lining do not count.

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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So technically this picture doesn't fit the rules?

marcin_in_the_air.jpg
 
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Borek said:
So technically this picture doesn't fit the rules?

I don't know. What are you in/on?

Zz.
 
I am the one on the ground, but I am flying a model, so I am "up in the air".
 
Borek said:
I am the one on the ground, but I am flying a model, so I am "up in the air".

Humm... good question. I haven't thought about "remote control" snapshot. Since this policy or rule is not in place, I'd say we will allow it till we figure it out.

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Borek said:
I am the one on the ground, but I am flying a model, so I am "up in the air".

What kind of model I wonder? Plane, helicopter, drone...? Or something else? Ufo? Metallic bird? Dragon? :biggrin:
 
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Borek, you could have jumped! Then it would clearly fit the rules.What do you mean, you didn't expect this contest when taking the picture?
 
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Bixler 2 & GoPro.
 
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DSC09561_zps7alhvjcu.jpg


Cleve-O from ~10k feet
 
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Final day to submit your photo for this contest.

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