Photo Contest - You Look Rather Down (1/18-1/24)

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around a photo contest themed "You Look Rather Down," where participants are invited to submit photographs that depict a view from above. The scope includes guidelines for submission, as well as various contributions of photos taken from different locations and perspectives.

Discussion Character

  • Contest-related
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Main Points Raised

  • The contest theme requires photos that clearly show a view from above, with specific examples provided by the organizer.
  • Participants share their photo submissions from various locations, including Atlanta, Odisha, Armenia, Las Vegas, and Cape Town.
  • Some participants express nostalgia or personal connections to the locations mentioned, such as the Space Needle.
  • There are comments questioning the geographical accuracy of certain views, with one participant suggesting a location cannot be Australia due to its greenery.
  • Another participant corrects the previous claim, asserting that the view is from Kauai.
  • Reminders are given about the contest rules, including submission limits and the process for voting on entries.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

The discussion includes multiple competing views regarding the geographical identification of certain photos, and there is no consensus on some of these points. Participants generally agree on the contest rules and theme but express differing opinions on specific submissions.

Contextual Notes

Participants may have different interpretations of what constitutes a clear view from above, and there are unresolved questions about the accuracy of location identification in some submissions.

Who May Find This Useful

Individuals interested in photography contests, those looking to engage with a community around visual storytelling, and participants in the Physics Forums community may find this discussion relevant.

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You Look Rather Down

The theme this week is on a view that you see when you look down. This may be you standing up and looking at your feet and the ground below, or the view looking down from a mountain top.

The photo must a clear perspective or context to allow a viewer to see that it is a view from above. A shot of a plain floor without showing, for example, your feet, does not convey a clear message that it is a view from above.

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. Size limitations: Your photo is only limited to the file size limitation set by PhysicsForums. However, your may want to consider reducing the size of your photo if the file size exceeds 1 Mb. If your file is being hosted elsewhere, I will have to see how it is being displayed here, and I may ask you to resize and resubmit if it causes problems.

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 withdrawal 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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From the SkyView Atlanta:

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View from the "Wings of Tatev", the longest reversible aerial tramway built in only one section, between Halidzor and the Tatev monastery in Armenia.

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Looking down from the "High Roller" at the Vegas strip
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Space Needle
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nsaspook said:
Space Needle ……

ohhhh Havent been there since 1999
 
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At the mall today .
 
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looking down on Cape Town from Table Mountain

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View of the Valley.jpg
 
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From the top of the Cape Hattaras lighthouse:
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davenn said:
cant be Australia, it's too green
It is Kauai. :)
 
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Final day to submit your photo for this contest.

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OK, tame. On the other hand...
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