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Announcing the May 2007 theme challenge - Birds and Water (1 Viewer)

IanF

Moderator
The monthly theme challenge for May 2007 is ‘Birds and water'.

The theme is further defined as being a photograph of a bird/birds interacting with water. This can be of birds bathing, in the rain, feeding in water, reflections in water, swimming and diving etc. As long as a bird or birds are invloved and the presence of water is in view and obvious.

The rules must be adhered to in order to avoid disqualification. The Moderators decision is final.

Rules –

1. Entry to have been taken in the last twelve months.
2. Date taken to be included in the entry - must at least include month and year.
3. Entry to be uploaded between May 1st-21st midnight (BST).
4. Your entry must contain a bird or birds that are obviously involved with water.
5. The bird must be wild and can be of any species.
6. Location taken to be included and must include at least the county/state and country.
7. One entry per member.
8. Only minor image adjustment is permitted, such as cropping, sharpening, contrast, and levels. The photo must not be otherwise greatly manipulated ie. objects should not be added / removed in order to enhance the shot - no composite images.
9. Once uploaded a photo is classed as an entry and cannot be replaced by another shot. However, you have until the closing date / time of this competition to ensure that your photo meets criteria.
10. The entry must be your own work and not previously submitted in a competition on this site.
11. The bird's common name must be given - though please add the scientific too!
12. Entries to be uploaded directly by entrants to the Monthly Photo Competitions Gallery

A voting booth will be posted after May 21st.

Please note 30 entries will be selected for addition to the voting booth for members to vote upon - entries not included in the voting booth will be moved to their appropriate geographic forum.

Comments on entries are permitted.

Any queries about this months competition, please post below.

Proposed monthly themes for 2007 can be found - here
 
Thanks, Ian. Can't wait to see this month's entries. I've seen some great water shots in the last year, this will be a good one.
 
Well, I've finally entered my first contest!

I had a really tough time deciding between two of my shots, but I finally bit the bullet and chose.
 
Are we allowed to do minor edits to the photo after it has been posted? I want to crop my picture since the gallery shows a cropped version by default and the way scaling is done by the forum SW is not the best. I rather post a smaller picture where I do the scaling, if this is allowed.
 
Are we allowed to do minor edits to the photo after it has been posted? I want to crop my picture since the gallery shows a cropped version by default and the way scaling is done by the forum SW is not the best. I rather post a smaller picture where I do the scaling, if this is allowed.

No problem with that. You have until the clsoing date to edit your entry. It's a known issue with any dimension over 800 pixels that the Gallery software generates two files - one lower quality to the other. However these uploads can't usually be edited. Any problem then PM me and it may need deleting so a new version of th same file can be uploaded.
 
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