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Mira's JournalThread 2 of 3 ***** Photo Contest February***** "Part of the Whole"
The theme was envisioned and given by HappyCynic who won the January ContestThe thought behind the theme is to portray something which is distinctly a part of a larger object or item. Can be intact, or not, but it cannot stand alone because the connection to the larger part is definitely implied and necessary to be completed in your imagination.
With that in mind please evaluate and vote on the photographs.
The links to the threads are here (or will be shortly)
Thread 1 https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216336377
Thread 3 https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216336405
Thank you for looking - for your consideration - and for your vote.
Please comment on the photographs - we love your feedback, and please kick the threads.
Attachments
Fresnel lens in Lighthouse
Miss Gwendolyn
Under a low winter sun
Morgan
Detail: Painted Ray Ban Wall Sign, Williamsberg, NY
Glitter Angel Wings
Trippin' At The Eiffel Tower (My Paris Trip)
La Brea
Mexico City Metro
***** Photo Contest February***** "Part of the Whole" Thread 1 of 3
The theme was envisioned and given by HappyCynic who won the January ContestThe thought behind the theme is to portray something which is distinctly a part of a larger object or item. Can be intact, or not, but it cannot stand alone because the connection to the larger part is definitely implied and necessary to be completed in your imagination.
With that in mind please evaluate and vote on the photographs.
The threads will run for 72 hours. The finals will be determined by the 3 top vote getters in each thread, and a last highest vote getter to make 10 finalists.
The links to the threads are here (or will be shortly)
Thread 2 https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216336395
Thread 3 https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216336405
Thank you for looking - for your consideration - and for your vote.
Please comment on the photographs - we love your feedback, and please kick the threads.
Flight
Its Bark is its Bite
Cat’s ear
Detail: The Copper Skillet
Black and White
Crystalline mineral deposits, Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone N.P.
Can you hear it?
Cabin Winter
Dinner
A Lifetime of Service
February Contest *****All Filled up again***** Thank you all!
Tom Kitten came in with a beautiful photograph and now we have 30 again.
Preliminaries tomorrow if not sooner.
Thank you much.
Small glitch******Photo submission thread for February - here is your chance
When I went to bed I had 30 submissions.
When I worked with them this morning I had lost one seemingly overnight - the photographer deleted it.
So here is the chance for whoever is ready: I will accept happily one more photograph
Put it in the submission thread right under my chatter with Lake Arenal
I will take whoever comes first, and of course no more after that.
I thank you in advance, the preliminary threads will still come either today or tomorrow, we are way ahead of schedule for this contest, and I am just as curious as all of us to see who will get the votes.
Opening up*****February Contest Submissions*** for second photo
There are a few spots open as I type, I believe it is 4 of them, and so I will go ahead and open up the Submission thread for a second entry - for those quick enough to grab it.
Once we have the 30 entries I will get the preliminaries assembled and posted.
Thanks, all, for your participation, and the grand assortment of photos.
*****February Contest: Reminder
We had a swift start but submissions have dwindled. I will keep things as they are a couple more days - then I'll get it open for second submissions and that will bring us to the 30 entries I"m sure. So if you are debating with yourself if or which to enter - now is the window of time before the "end".
I'm really happy with what we have already, the voting will be tough and interesting.
Don't even step on the yellow snow
My feet are on the left. I did not do this. Was just stepping out of my car looking down..
You know who you are! If you entered a photograph that is too large.
This time I will not take the photos that are too large and make them smaller to fit the required
1024 pixels in its longest dimension and under 675K in file size
I'm not really good at it and in the last contest I led it took me many hours to do it.
I'll ask you to please do it yourself, and thank you in advance, you can fix it and as you know it's a matter of simply editing the entry and inserting the new link.
I was really pleased to scroll down in my last contest to see the photos in all the same size.
With your help we can make this happen again.
*****February contest COMMENTS thread*****Theme:PART OF THE WHOLE
Here is where you can comment to your hearts desire on the submissions as they come in. Please - please comment here and not in the submissions thread.
Here is the link to the photographs
https://www.democraticunderground.com/103696751
Contest *****February contest Submission thread*****Theme:PART OF THE WHOLE
Again as a reminder, here are the words of Happy Cynic who chose the theme as a result of being the winner of the January ContestExamples:
- the bark of a tree
- a thorny stem
- one half of a broken bottle
- the rim of a tea cup
- the paw of a cat
For the "can't stand alone" part... A cloud would not fit in with the theme because, although it's a part of the "sky", it can stand alone as "a cloud". I know things can get kind of vague and debatable but the main intent is to have someone look at the picture and think of the whole item. (A photo of a car engine on cinder blocks wouldn't really fit the theme but a photo of a car engine clearly still within a car - maybe parts of the chassis and/or windshield are visible - would fit.)
And then some more encouragement from Happy Cynic a few days later:
For anyone who is having trouble thinking of things for the theme, I'm not sure if this will help but this might be a useful thought experiment.
Don't think about what you would photograph to fit the theme.
Instead, look through photos you have - photos of objects are probably the most useful, followed by plants, animals, and people. For each photo, think of how you would crop it to fit the theme. If you have a photo of a flower, how does it look if you crop it so that only a quarter is visible? Or maybe if the stem is visible, how would the photo be if you cropped it so the stem, the connection point, and part of the petals is visible?
Have a photo of a person? Can it be cropped to show only part of the face but still evoke their emotions such that you can imagine their full expression?
Maybe you have a photo of a bridge. Is there an interesting photo to be had if you cropped out half of it?
Once you do a few of these thought experiments, hopefully it will help get you seeing things to photograph for the theme. (Or if you're lucky, you can use one of the cropped shots for the theme.)
The time frame for the contest is as follows:
Submissions will end on the 15th of the month, or whenever there are 30 submissions. Each photographer may submit one photograph unless I open the contest for a second one later on.
The Preliminaries will run from the 16th of February to the 18th
The Finals will run from the 19th through the 21st and then the winners will be announced.
AND NOW FOR THE BASIC RULES OF SUBMISSION:
Only one entry per person, and it must be a photograph you took yourself. You need to post your entry in the submission thread started by the Host of the contest. Please be sure to include a "Title" for your photograph in the Subject line of your post. The submission thread is for photo entries only, no comments or questions.
The Volunteer Host is allowed to enter the Contest.
Please keep your entry no larger than 1024 pixels in its longest dimension and under 675K in file size and limit photo editing to a reasonable amount.
Once a photo is entered in a contest it is ineligible for any future contest unless the Host specifies otherwise.
CONTEST LICENSE:
An entrant to this contest (original work), by submitting a photograph, is giving permission for that photograph to be copied to Demopedia or to a linked Gallery and included in a DU Calendar that will display the photographs entered for this contest for the purpose of publicizing future contests and/or commemorating current and past contests. The entrant retains all other rights to the photograph being submitted. Neither Demopedia and/or a linked Gallery may use any photograph submitted for any purpose other than to display the photograph being submitted by the entrant, and neither gains any real or implied ownership rights to the photograph.
ENTER YOUR SUBMISSIONS IN THIS VERY THREAD. IF YOU WANT TO MAKE COMMENTS - DO NOT DO IT IN THIS THREAD BECAUSE IT MAKES MY JOB HARDER. DO IT IN THE COMMENTS THREAD: Here is the link to it.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/103696752
I am very much looking forward to the submissions and see what your wondrous minds and eyes will come up with./i]
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