Announcing the May 2010 theme challenge - Birds and Water (1 Viewer)

The monthly theme challenge for May 2010 is ‘Birds and water'.

The theme is further defined as being a photograph of a bird/birds interacting with water. For example - 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-22nd 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 - 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 i.e. 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 22nd.

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.

Thanks Ian.

As a newbie, I have questions you've probably answered before. Sorry for that. If you've answered them before it's so long ago that I'm not finding the answers in the forum. Or maybe that's just my limited search skills. Anyway, here goes: I see the rule is that work must not have been previously subitted in a competition on this site. I take it that means that we can submit shots we've previously posted to the gallery ...? If so, how do we reassign them to the competition section?

Doc Duck said:

As a newbie, I have questions you've probably answered before. Sorry for that. If you've answered them before it's so long ago that I'm not finding the answers in the forum. Or maybe that's just my limited search skills. Anyway, here goes: I see the rule is that work must not have been previously subitted in a competition on this site. I take it that means that we can submit shots we've previously posted to the gallery ...? If so, how do we reassign them to the competition section?

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If the photo was added to the Gallery prior to the start of the monthly theme challenge then a new copy needs to be uploaded to the Gallery just for the comptition. If it was uploaded after the 1st then let me know which one and I'll move it for you.

Aha. Thanks. |=)| No prob then. I haven't uploaded anything yet this month, so I just reload if I decide to submit one of the previous ones. I'll see if I get any good shots the next week or so, then make a choice. How does one choose? Rhetorical question that; no need to answer. But I can see where I'm going to have a tough time voting this round. So many good pictures already! Something about water, and also action which seems to go with the water territory, that both have a special appeal to me. You get to choose 30, but even that is probably tough to do some months. Thanks for doing this! It's fun ||