PF PHOTO CONTEST - Vacation (10/8-10/13)

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Discussion Overview

The thread focuses on a photo contest themed around vacation pictures, where participants are encouraged to submit images taken during their travels away from their usual living areas. The discussion includes the sharing of photos, commentary on submissions, and adherence to contest rules.

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Main Points Raised

  • Participants must submit vacation photos taken away from their home region, with specific rules regarding photo editing and submission.
  • Some participants share their vacation photos, including locations like Disneyland, Engelberg, and Devil's Bay.
  • There is a humorous exchange regarding the appropriateness of certain submissions, such as a photo taken from a dorm room with a baloney sandwich in the foreground.
  • One participant questions whether a photo taken in New York counts as a vacation, leading to a discussion about the definition of a vacation.
  • Another participant expresses disappointment over disqualifications from previous contests, reflecting on past experiences with contest rules.
  • There are requests for higher resolution images from participants who find certain photos breathtaking.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the contest rules but exhibit disagreement regarding the validity of certain photo submissions, particularly those that may not meet the vacation criteria. The discussion remains unresolved on some submissions, with differing opinions on what constitutes a vacation.

Contextual Notes

Some participants express uncertainty about the appropriateness of their submissions, indicating a lack of clarity in the contest rules regarding what qualifies as a vacation photo.

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Members interested in photography, vacation experiences, or participating in community contests may find this thread engaging.

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Vacation

This contest should be easy since almost everyone takes pictures while they are on a vacation. So the pictures for this contest must be taken during one of your vacations. Note that your vacation picture must be taken away from the city/region where you normally live.

Good luck!


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 650 x 490 or 490 x 650 pixels. You may also crop your picture if you wish. But other than that, 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. 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.

Zz.
 
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What? Still no vacation photos? C'mon!

:)

Zz.
 
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/9243/lvslcco5.jpg

Talk about a fork in the road...
 
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The Cueva Ambrosio, This is a shot of a grotto in the cave that opens on the roof to the outside. The Cueva was across the street from the hotel in Varedaro Beach Cuba.If you ever get there you must see the cave paintings.


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This is my vacation picture from 2 years ago at Disneyland in California.

IMG_2609.jpg


Zz.
 
My first time out to California... all the way from the east coast:

http://bikeflat.com/albums/uther/018_7.sized.jpg
 
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Looks fisheye!
 
alex caps said:
My first time out to California... all the way from the east coast:

http://bikeflat.com/albums/uther/018_7.sized.jpg

are those the famous california Beastie Trees? *drum roll pa-dum-dum-tsss*

ok that was terrible. cool pic though! fish eye is where it's at!
 
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I don't think I've posted this one before. It's part of a whole series of pictures I took in NY from my dorm room as I ate a baloney sandwich.
I give you:

"Baloney Sandwich With New York City Background"
[picture disqualified]
 
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Devil's Bay, Virgin Gorda

http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/3553/devilsbayjj2.jpg
 
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moe darklight said:
I don't think I've posted this one before. It's part of a whole series of pictures I took in NY from my dorm room as I ate a baloney sandwich.
I give you:

"Baloney Sandwich With New York City Background"

Hum... how does this fit into our theme?

Zz.
 
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it was taken in NY the weekend I arrived, before classes started. that weekend counts as a vacation away from home, don't it?

aww I always get disqualified :cry: this is like all the "does not follow assignment instructions" I always got in middle school and high school.
 
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http://home.comcast.net/~Integral50/Photo_contest/IM000858a.JPG

This is the initial contact, we met up with Ivan's cousins in LA.
 
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moe darklight said:
it was taken in NY the weekend I arrived, before classes started. that weekend counts as a vacation away from home, don't it?

aww I always get disqualified :cry: this is like all the "does not follow assignment instructions" I always got in middle school and high school.

This is rather weak. One can also say that a weekend at home is a "vacation" using this logic. Are you sure you don't have another picture to submit that is truly from a vacation?

Zz.
 
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naw I don't have one :frown: . O well... I wouldn't have a chance against the beastie trees anyway :biggrin: .
 
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Integral said:
http://home.comcast.net/~Integral50/Photo_contest/IM000858a.JPG

This is the initial contact, we met up with Ivan's cousins in LA.

Ahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhaha!
 
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You have less than 2 days left to post a picture in this contest.

Zz.
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
This is Engelberg, Switzerland!

swiss.gif

looks like hands in prayer...
 
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Barcelona, on this sky ride thing.
barcelona.jpg
 
  • #21
ZapperZ said:
What? Still no vacation photos? C'mon!

:)

Zz.

And just where are *YOUR* pics, Mr. ?
 
  • #22
Greg Bernhardt said:
This is Engelberg, Switzerland!

swiss.gif

That's absolutely breathtaking! Do you have another one like this but higher resolution/size? I want to use it as my desktop background :)
 
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RetardedBastard said:
That's absolutely breathtaking! Do you have another one like this but higher resolution/size? I want to use it as my desktop background :)

here you go! http://www.gofastfood.com/swiss2.jpg

I don't say things like this often, but being atop the swiss mountains really was a "spiritual" experience.
 
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Church yard at Old Town, Isles of Scilly
 
  • #25
RetardedBastard said:
And just where are *YOUR* pics, Mr. ?

Look at post #6.

Zz.
 
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ZapperZ said:
Look at post #6.

Zz.

Oooooops! :)
 
  • #27
Greg Bernhardt said:

Just what I wanted, thanks! :)

I don't say things like this often, but being atop the swiss mountains really was a "spiritual" experience.

The real deal is a 100 times more breathtaking in person, I bet.
 

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