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December 2008 Monthly Photography Contest

alfa147x

alfa147x

Lifer
December 2008 Monthly Photography Contest

Welcome to monthly contest #19!
Happy Holidays folks
and hope you all have a great Christmas
~Alfa147x
:cookie:

Winners:
December Holidays Rockinacoustic
December Thankfulness bobdole369
December Anything 996GT2
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Gallery:
December Holidays
December Thankfulness
December Anything



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As always, feel free to use this thread to suggest themes for next month's contest.

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Past Winners

Password to galleries: atcontest



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November Contest Dates:

  • Photo must be taken between December 1 - 31, 2008.
  • Photo must be submitted by end of day, December 31, 2008.
  • Voting begins the morning of January 1, 2009, and will run through the evening of January 6, 2009 .
  • Winner to be announced at the end of voting.
Primary December 2008 Contest Theme:

  • "Holidays"
    • Because Christmas music is playing at the mall
Secondary December 2008 Contest Theme:

  • "Thankfulness "
    • Things that you or someone you know is thankful for
    • This should have interesting submissions
Tertiary December 2008 Contest Theme:

  • "Anything Goes"
    • I liked the idea of people taking a picture and it being a awesome shot but it not fitting in any category
    • Please keep the pictures SAFE FOR WORK 😉
The General Rules:

  • Submitted photos must easily pertain to the contest subject matter.
  • Contest eligible pictures MUST be taken within the dates stated for this month's contest.
  • Only one submitted photo per entrant per catagory
  • Full EXIF info is strongly suggested to be retained with any submitted picture. I am ceasing to make this a requirement, due to the fact that this is merely a fun and no-prize contest.
  • Submitted photos must abide by forum rules (which basically means no nudity)
Post-Processing Rules:

  • We are now going to dispense with any PP rules. Anything is allowed, but I still want to discourage the following:
    • Try to refrain from turning your photo into "graphic art".
    • I would like to discourage major cloning and photo transplants.
Submission Rules:

  • Each person is given until the time that I put up the voting to submit their picture. Polls are usually erected the morning of the start date of voting.
  • Smallest picture size available to submit will be limited to 1200 pixels on the smallest side. This gives everyone with atleast a 2MP camera a chance to enter. (Any arguements on this one?) - UPDATE: If anyone has any problems with this, we can dispense with this rule. Now that I think about it, any full-size originals you submit to me will be available for anyone here to grab.
  • Please submit JPG's only! (Highest quality setting for JPG is suggested to reduce compression artifacts.)
  • Your final entry can be made at any time between the start of the contest itself until the submission deadline stated above.
  • Each member will have only ONE chance to submit a final entry for the contest. Once you submit, that is it.
Submitting Your Entry:

  • There will be two ways to get your photo to me:
    • Email your photo to alfa.photocontest (at) gmail.com, and BE SURE to include your username in the body of the email. Sometimes I've had to go back and references people's profiles on here with the email address. Luckily I've not had any problems yet with matching photos to users without having to send emails back and forth. Please send a PM indicating an email has been sent just incase it's put in the spam folder.
    • PM me with a link to your full-size photo on the web.
Voting:

  • Voting will begin at the date stated at the start of this thread.
  • The gallery will be available to view at all times as pictures are added throughout the contest, however all final entries will be posted in this thread with links, along with a poll at the top of the thread.
  • Voting will stay open until the deadline.
Prizes:

  • Due to the nature of the contest being ran by regular members, there are no prizes to be offered. You will only gain the satisfaction of being chosen by the members of Anandtech as the best in this month's theme.
  • If any prizes are able to be given away in any future contests, I will be sure to outline the details. If you do not see mention of a prize, then assume there isn't one.
Errors/Omissions:

  • I try my best to keep everything organized on my end in regards to picture submissions and the names of users that submitted those. If you find any errors, PLEASE let me know so I may correct them. I've not been told that I've linked to wrong pictures, or labeled pictures with the wrong usernames yet, so I must be doing something right. But that's the last thing I want is giving credit for a photo to the wrong person.
 
November was very boring for me (photographically speaking). I did take a bunch of snapshots at Thanksgiving dinner, but nothing worthy of a photo contest. We're going to a resort/cabin in the mountains for Christmas so I should at least get a few mountain snow shots this month. 🙂
 
I am having the hardest time finding "holidays". It's South Florida here, so no snow. My company holiday luncheon turned out to be terribe photographically speaking.
 
I'm probably going for the "anything goes" this month lol since there's no snow here, just very very cold weather
 
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