Photo Contest - Flotation Device (7/14-7/20)

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around a photo contest themed on flotation devices, specifically focusing on objects that float on water. Participants share their experiences, submissions, and challenges related to the contest rules and submission process.

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  • Contest-related, Meta-discussion

Main Points Raised

  • One participant outlines the contest theme, specifying that only objects floating on water qualify, while animals swimming do not.
  • Several participants share their intended submissions, including various boats and unique floating objects.
  • One participant expresses frustration over technical difficulties in submitting their photo, including issues with anonymizing a person in the image.
  • Another participant clarifies that they did not consider a submission made via a link due to contest rules, which state that only direct uploads are acceptable.
  • There is a mention of the contest submission period ending, with some participants noting their compliance with the rules while others express concerns about their submissions being accepted.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the contest rules and theme, but there is disagreement regarding the acceptance of certain submissions, particularly those made via links and the timing of submissions.

Contextual Notes

Some participants express uncertainty about the technical aspects of photo submission and the interpretation of contest rules, particularly regarding the visibility of links and the requirements for anonymizing subjects in photos.

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Flotation Device

The theme this week is on things that float on the surface of water. This can be anything from a humongous cruise ship to a kayak to a rubber ducky to a dead leaf. The object must be floating in the picture, so a photo of a ship in a dry dock does not qualify.

Animals swimming in water, such as fish, also do not qualify. However, a dead fish that is floating on the surface of water does! Go figure!

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.

Zz.
 
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While the fish are indeed below the water, the mighty duck floats above them...
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container ship about to enter Port Botany, Sydney, Oz

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Given that half of my pictures are of things floating on a river, I'll just post the last one I took:

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the evening ferry heading (across and upstream the Volga) for Samara's ferry wharf from Rozhdestveno (="the Christmas village")
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These small boats are special to Bengal and Bangladesh. This was taken in Murshidabad:

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On the river Havel in the outskirts of Berlin.

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Final day to submit your photo for this contest.

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  • #12
I'm not going for cute pictures of boats or animals. This is chicken fat floating on homemade broth. Yeah!

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Zz.
 

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You think of floating as passive, but sometimes it has to be active.
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  • #14
epenguin said:
You think of floating as passive, but sometimes it has to be active.View attachment 228225

Just so you know, the submission period for this contest has ended.

Zz.
 
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ZapperZ said:
Just so you know, the submission period for this contest has ended.

Zz.
Yes, however I did submit the picture yesterday well in time, having spent a lot of time working on it. Then it was presented as a link that as far as I know anyone could have seen it if they clicked it.
The problem was while the photo was in theme, to anonimise the person whom I do not know. Which I had never done before using my Mac and had to find out and download the new software called Skitch. So made it into a picture of flotation with not the particular person but just someone, which I think is okay. Then I could not find a way to put the pic up as I usually do, and had to content myself with a link which is I said I think was visible. Today I spent some more time and ingenuity it seemed to me because I am backwards in these things, to make it immediately visible.

So I hope you can now include the pic in the competition, if not amen.
 
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epenguin said:
Yes, however I did submit the picture yesterday well in time, having spent a lot of time working on it. Then it was presented as a link that as far as I know anyone could have seen it if they clicked it.
The problem was while the photo was in theme, to anonimise the person whom I do not know. Which I had never done before using my Mac and had to find out and download the new software called Skitch. So made it into a picture of flotation with not the particular person but just someone, which I think is okay. Then I could not find a way to put the pic up as I usually do, and had to content myself with a link which is I said I think was visible. Today I spent some more time and ingenuity it seemed to me because I am backwards in these things, to make it immediately visible.

So I hope you can now include the pic in the competition, if not amen.

I did not know that that was your submission. I presumed you know the criteria for submission since you're quite familiar with it by now, so I never looked at any link (since those do not follow the rules of the contest) in the contest thread. That is why I never included any submission by you.

The contest thread had already been made, and this submission is outside of the contest period. So unfortunately, it cannot be included.

Zz.
 

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