March 2009 Monthly Photography Contest

996GT2

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Update: Polls now up, voting continues until 11:59 PM on April 6th



Green


Green 1
Green 2

HDR
HDR 1
HDR 2
HDR 3

Anything Goes
Anything Goes 1
Anything Goes 2
Anything Goes 3
Anything Goes 4
Anything Goes 5



March 2009 Monthly Photography Contest

Welcome to monthly contest #22!

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Since Alfa147x is very late this month, I decided to host the photog contest thread.

Please PM me a link to your submission and I will host all the entries on my photobucket album at the end of the month.

Also, feel free to post ideas for April's contest in this thread.
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March Contest Dates:

* Photo must be taken between March 1 - 31, 2009.
* Photo must be submitted by end of day, March 31, 2009..
* Voting begins the morning of April 1, 2009, and will run through the evening of March 6, 2009 .
* Winner to be announced at the end of voting.




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Primary March 2009 Contest Theme:

* "Green"
o For St. patrick's day


Secondary March 2009 Contest Theme:

* "HDR"
o Pretty self-explanatory here

Tertiary March 2009 Contest Theme:

* "Anything Goes"
o I liked the idea of people taking a picture and it being a awesome shot but it not fitting in any category
o Please keep the pictures SAFE FOR WORK

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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:
o Try to refrain from turning your photo into "graphic art".
o 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:

o 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.
 

996GT2

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Originally posted by: kyzen
Somebody needs to update month names in their copy/paste job. I'm not gonna point fingers here, but... ;)

Heh, well, in my defense, Alfa still had "2008" in the original post lol

 

OulOat

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I really like anything goes #4, who took that? And HDR #2, I could have sworn that was in the previous months. Finally, I think this thread should be moved to Off Topic so we can get more exposure.

Edit - Not HDR 2, I took it and it's definitely this months =), I meant Anything goes 2 (op corrected it).
 

996GT2

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Or maybe we could post a sticky in off topic linking to this thread? That way it'll be in both places. Wonder what Fuzzy thinks about that idea

So for next month, I'm thinking...flowers for one of the themes. Opinions?
 

996GT2

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Added a thread linking to this in OT, hopefully mods sticky.

Again, please feel free to submit your ideas for next month
 

TheDrake

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Excellent shots! Great shot for anything goes 3 and 4 but boo to 4 for a shredded American flag, that should have been replaced a while ago!