Calendar competition

I have a question, it may be a little silly but I wanna get this clear:

The rules state...

"Images must include at least one element of poi/staff arts being displayed. The performer does not need to be visible - but the prop/toy must."

Does that mean that the only toys/props allowed are poi and/or staff? Are we allowed other fire toys or not?

other toys are allowed - hoop, flags, etc. - "spinning and twirling". Fire is not a prerequisite at all. Other fire toys are probably fine if they fall into the "spinning and twirling" category - except as for COL there is No Fire Breathing.

If you want to be more specific, ask away!

Well I've submitted a pic called "Night of the Burn, Burning Man, Nevada" and it shows my partner doing a hold with a burning "wheel". We use "wheels" in our shows all the time and technically they do spin. I LOVE the shot and think it's stunning but I don't want to waste a submission on a piece of equipment that technically isn't "spinning and twirling" (although in reality it does spin like a wheel).

Can you have a look at the pic and tell me if it would be discounted on that technicality?

I saw that pic and think it's great. I would definitely say it qualifies but understand why you'd want to check.

thanks

Contact juggling, yay or nay?

It's not technically spinning, or twirling, or fire...

LTC - refer answer to Durbs' question about acrylics on P1 - basically if it looks like an internationally recognisable location with object manipulation calendar pic then you should submit it. You can't win with no entry...

Hooray for the extension, gave us chance to re-shoot after everything had come out totally out of focus before running off to PLaY

(Spanner's idea and photo, I just span and brought the toys)

and it looks good too Yakumo!

For everyone else in the same position, voting will automatically be enabled this Sunday the 12th Aug and ends 16 Sep. BUT new entries can still be submitted right up until the end of voting. It just means that late entries may miss out on some potential votes.

Some good photo's submitted so far (as well as some which may be good fire photo's but without any visible landmarks, are not exactly like we are looking for).

George

<rant> Really I'm all for PLUR but the least you can do when entering a competition is read the rules, especially just before submitting an entry..</rant>

any chance someone could add a comments function to the entries, or is that being saved till voting?

I see the voting button has appeared now, Yay! Is there any limit to the number of votes people can make? ie, can I just sit there all day long voting for my own photos, or my friends photos... cos that hardly seems fair!

Try it and see what happens!!

Good to see that some people might have been playing "sneaky buggers" holding off entry until the last minute so someone else doesn't steal the idea??!! Some good "last minute" entries submitted.
But entries can still be submitted right up until the end of voting, so there's still time...

Voting rules:
You can vote for any number of entries you like (you can vote for all of them if you want)! But only one vote per media entry will be allowed via IP address (Multiple members at same IP address can still vote seperately but must log in) No limit on how many different entries you can vote for. i.e you could pick your top 3, only one, or your best 24 entries

Only total votes in the competition are shown. i.e. not shown for each entry - so you won't be able to tell who's "winning"!!

Hmm... Is it just me, or does the order of the entries keep jumping about when they're viewed?

it's not just you spanner and i have been complaining about that for days to each other since we started looking.

Clare, Yakumo, Spanner; ok we changed it. It might have seemed random but there was some logic behind it
We didn't want to have the same picture at the top of the list all the time as we thought it might give a voting advantage to the top of the list entry. The pictures were being ordered by how many times they had been viewed in order to try and get around this, but we realised that this was proving a pain for knowing which ones you had or hadn't seen.

So now they are ordered by when they were uploaded with the most recent at the top. Make sure you check them all out before voting rather than just voting for the top of the list! There's some quite good ones in there.

cheers
George

cool, ordering by no of views would have biased it far more

ok, I have a photo I want to submit... but i've misplaced my damn camera with it on (currently turning house upside down in search for missing camera + sim card with yet to be uploaded pics on)

I just checked the photos. A lot of nice ones. But a lot with no visible background. How does this go with the rules of the competition?

I was thinking the same thing...

I've been gently pointing out to the submitters of such photo's the idea of the competition...

I'd been thinking about this for some time, and since the Fire Breathing pic was removed, expected some of the others to be also, as they may glean votes despite not being in line with the competition guidelines, I'd think most people would only flick through for a short while and vote on a couple before getting bored and moving on so to my mind it's important they only see valid entries, also as they may not bother reading the rules/guidelines any more than some of the entrants.

perhaps out of good will they could be automatically moved to the why spin photo competition where they would be better suited.

I have a pretty clear 1200 by 1600 image I want to enter: is that ok?

The Fire Breathing pic was removed by the person who entered it after I PMed them - as have one or 2 other people. We haven't edited or deleted any entries.
I understand what you're saying though.

LA - easiest way to find out is to post it and see - is the one you already entered or another?

nope another one

ok, I've put it up..

I think the competition organizers should do a bit more than gently reminding people of the guidelines. There's a lot of good fire photography submitted. But not many of them fill the "criteria". And what's the point of being able to vote for photos that atleast shouldn't end up in the calendar...?

*grump*

Ok... there's still new entries that don't have any tie in, at all, with the country they are from.

Lol... ok, I realise this is a bit sulky... but, about a third, if not half, of the entries uploaded don't show any country at all - and isn't that the point?

I mean, they are nice pictures... but we've all got nice, non-country specific, pictures.

Sulk sulk sulk, de sulk sulk.

Come to think of it my Cirque picture is non-country specific also. It was a cool [EDIT: The coolest ever!] place to spin for sure and it's a nice background and a moment for a picture. But.......

I think it's nice to upload a picture and have it ready for voting right away. But I'm not sure if it really works. Maybe you (the organizers of the competition) should just collect the pics first, then choose the best 20+ pics that meet the criteria and have people vote on them....

Yep... was thinking that Mr Antti...

(Your other pic is very lovely though )

Hope you're well mister
xx

I dunno: the thing that I find a bit vague is saying that people should be able to recognise the place 'if they've been there' rather than choosing a landmark representative of a country.

I probably wouldn't have the two photos I put up otherwise. Both (I think) are recognisable if you've been to Yangshuo, but anyone who hasn't been there will be left going: ummmmm....right

I do have one photo that fulfills the criteria for sure, I've lost my camera usb cable so am having some problems uploading

vis a vis the entries, how about all the entries going to a storage spot online for filtering according to rules first, and then uploading the ones that meet the criteria day by day at the mods' leisure. That way, early entries still have an advantage but people have to meet the requirements for entry?

It also removes the chance of someone saying, 'why didn't my photo get through?' if it's in accordance with the rules its up, otherwise its not