Monthy Photo Contest Rules and Guidelines

Each Month we will have a Photo Contest opened to all SimplyDiscus members,sponsors, and moderators. The contest will be a different theme each month. For example one month may focus on Pairs with Fry, another may focus on Planted tanks and Biotopes. Photos will be submitted by email and we will then post them in a poll on the forum where you, the membership, will vote. A prize will be awarded each month (to be decided based on our resources)

Rules for submissions:

1) You must be the person that took the picture and has permission to use it.

2) You must email a high resolution image to us at the provided email address. Your submission gives us permission to use the photo for this contest, host it on an offsite location and post it in a poll on Simply Discus

3) IF a photo is required you will provide a single image, no videos will be allowed unless the theme for that month is "videos". Please only submit one photo or video for any theme.

4) Images may be cropped and have routine Post Production carried out, for example white balance adjustment, exposure adjustments, lens corrections and general tone adjustments. Unless otherwise specified images may not be significantly modified by excessive cloning or compositing.

5) Ideally 10 Mbs as an image size maximum should be the goal. Images that are too large will be returned to the submitter for resizing.

6) No watermarks or names can be shown on the picture.

7) Images that are submitted can not have been posted here on Simply or anywhere else.


How to submission:

Once you are ready to submit your photos; email them to photo@simplydiscus.com for submission. Submissions will be accepted the first ten days of the month. A member of the SimplyDiscus team will receive the photos and upload them to a hosting website. The poll thread with the months submissions will be posted around of 15th of the month and open for voting until the 25th of the month after which the winner will be announced. Since winners are determined by poll, all registered members of SimplyDiscus including Admins, Moderators, Sponsors, and Subscription holders are eligible to participate.

We have tried to anticipate all issues and make the rules clear and concise, but should an issue or problem arise we maintain all rights to resolve it as we see fit. You agree to this by your submission.


Themes

The theme for the month of May 2014 is "Discus in Motion". Some examples of this are eating, spawning, fighting, swimming actively (fins blurred, body not) etc.

The themes for the upcoming months are

1) Discus In Motion (May)
2) Planted Tanks (June)
3) Biotopes (July)
4) Coolest Group Shots (August)

Where on the forum are the pictures posted for voting? Can't seem to locate December photos to vote on:confused:

Thank you ,
Lilly

Lilly, photo contests can be found in the Current Affairs section here http://forum.simplydiscus.com/forumd...airs-on-Simply

We did not run a contest for December. Our current contest is open to submissions at this time! http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showth...rnamental-fish

Thank you Matt:)