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I would only be interested if the photos could have been taken any time. The last time we had contests the timeframe from photo taken to submitting was way too short.
I didn't have a problem with the time frame being short. It was sort of an incentive to be looking for subjects. It might be interesting to have an assigned monthly subject and waive the time frame or lengthen it to one year or six months. The administration is the thing that is burdensome.
I never participated before, because while I always enjoyed taking photos, it's only in retirement that I have really begun to pursue it more actively.
I would enjoy photo contests for the same reason I liked writing contests--it gives me motivation!
Ok so we are ready to start this? Who wants to be involved? What's the best way to set it up? Just a thread with the monthly theme, and contest participants can post in the thread? Then make a separate post for the poll for everyone to vote by the 2nd of the next month?
I didn't have a problem with the time frame being short. It was sort of an incentive to be looking for subjects. It might be interesting to have an assigned monthly subject and waive the time frame or lengthen it to one year or six months. The administration is the thing that is burdensome.
Last week, I entered a real-world juried competition/exhibition in Chicago that asked that everything submitted be no more than five years old. My five submissions were all taken May-November 2020. No reason not to accept something from 2020 or 2021.
If it's a winter theme, I'd say just within the last few years is fine. This year has been weird. Texas has had as much snow as I've seen here on Lake Michigan.
Broadly, I'd just say don't enter anything that's been entered in a c-d contest before, if we're just trying to hold the administration burden down to run a contest that's just for fun.
I have always enjoyed photography since I was old enough to hold a camera (110 films) and shoot everything!
Well, I agree with the above poster regarding the time frame as the main factor. Perhaps quarterly themes?
For instance;
"Winter" instead of "Snow" and can be broken into several sub-categories: snow, ice, slush, icicles, holidays, red/green colors, in other words, broaden the themes to last a quarter of the year.
I have always enjoyed photography since I was old enough to hold a camera (110 films) and shoot everything!
Well, I agree with the above poster regarding the time frame as the main factor. Perhaps quarterly themes?
For instance;
"Winter" instead of "Snow" and can be broken into several sub-categories: snow, ice, slush, icicles, holidays, red/green colors, in other words, broaden the themes to last a quarter of the year.
I have always enjoyed photography since I was old enough to hold a camera (110 films) and shoot everything!
Well, I agree with the above poster regarding the time frame as the main factor. Perhaps quarterly themes?
For instance;
"Winter" instead of "Snow" and can be broken into several sub-categories: snow, ice, slush, icicles, holidays, red/green colors, in other words, broaden the themes to last a quarter of the year.
Your thoughts?
Agreed. An overall theme contest would foster more creativity IMO.
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