Photo Contest - World Culture 2-Japan (9/17-9/23)

  • Thread starter Thread starter ZapperZ
  • Start date Start date
  • Tags Tags
    photo contest
AI Thread Summary
The discussion centers on a photo contest themed around Japan, inviting participants to submit digital photos that represent Japanese culture, history, food, or people. Key rules include accepting only one photo per member, requiring images to be resized to specific dimensions, and prohibiting significant editing beyond brightness and contrast adjustments. Photos must be original and taken by the member, with submissions posted in a designated thread. At the end of the contest, a poll will allow members to vote for their favorite photo. The conversation also highlights the significance of Japanese cuisine, with examples like Bento boxes and Chicken Teriyaki being mentioned.
ZapperZ
Staff Emeritus
Science Advisor
Homework Helper
Insights Author
Messages
32,814
Reaction score
4,725
Japan

This is the second in the series of our World Culture theme. We had Norway previously, and now we go to the other side of the world and focus on the elegant culture of Japan.

Your photo must have, as its main subject, something identifiable with Japan, the Japanese culture and history, food, or the people.

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 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.

Zz.
 
Physics news on Phys.org
Of course, with Japan, the first thing that comes to my mind is the food!

Here's one of my typical Bento box with Chicken Teriyaki.
IMG_3464.JPG


Zz.
 
I offer this composition of petals which like most of those that year (2013) is actually Japanese from the 'Infiorata di Noto' I previously wrote about here #9 though pics I posted seem to have become invisible. :oldfrown:

255p3bq.jpg
 
Last edited:
Similar to the 2024 thread, here I start the 2025 thread. As always it is getting increasingly difficult to predict, so I will make a list based on other article predictions. You can also leave your prediction here. Here are the predictions of 2024 that did not make it: Peter Shor, David Deutsch and all the rest of the quantum computing community (various sources) Pablo Jarrillo Herrero, Allan McDonald and Rafi Bistritzer for magic angle in twisted graphene (various sources) Christoph...

Similar threads

Replies
19
Views
3K
Replies
9
Views
2K
Replies
10
Views
2K
Replies
19
Views
2K
Replies
17
Views
2K
Replies
12
Views
2K
Replies
14
Views
3K
Replies
13
Views
2K
Replies
31
Views
5K
Back
Top