October Photo Contest - Pairs With Fry

[Discus-n00b]

Dear SimplyDiscus Membership,


We are be accepting photo's for October's photo contest starting today and continuing through the entire month. We had good participation in September's contest with 11 entries. The voting for September's contest can be found here http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showth...-Contest-Pairs


The theme for October is Pairs With Fry and here's a chance to showcase your discus pairs WITH fry. As before we ask members to only submit one photo for the contest. Also please provide your name and SimplyDiscus username so we can use a person's SD handle vs their first name, last initial.


The prize for this month is a beautiful hardcover book generously donated by our very own admin Paul (pcsb23) from his personal collection. Paul bought this book over from the UK with him when he flew over the pond to attend June's 2014 Discus Show hosted by NADA in Austin, Texas. The book is titled Arowana authored by Bernd Degen/Ronny Wartenberg/Sandra Wartenberg. The book is still in it's original wrapping. Thank you Paul for this very special prize.




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. Please provide name and SimplyDiscus username as part of the submission.


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 for the entire month. A member of the SimplyDiscus team will receive the photos and upload them to a hosting website. The poll thread with the month's submissions will be posted the first day of the next month and open for voting until the 10th 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 November is Funniest Photoshop-ed Discus.

[nc0gnet0]

So on next months contest------Pairs with fry. Are you looking for pairs that have fry attached, or are Pairs that have wigglers on the cone allowed?

And, as a voter, am I supposed to be voting on the best picture, or in this case, the pair I like the best? Often times the two are completely different.

[Second Hand Pat]

Well, pairs with fry are actually this months contest but fry to me are any time after the eggs hatch. On the voting that is purely a personal choice.

[Discus-n00b]

I agree, anytime after the eggs hatch is acceptable provided the parents are in the photo with the fry this month. Voting, like stated should be your choice and your decision how to base your vote.

[Discus-n00b]

Bump, get your picture of "Pairs with Fry" in for October!

[Second Hand Pat]

I've deleted a number of posts that can only be described as sour grapes. Folks lets keep this on topic from now on, any further sour grapes and people may find themselves with time on their hands to reflect on it ...

[musicmarn1]

just going to bump this up, since the people with amazing pictures of a pair with their fry need to follow the rules exactly to make it fair to all. We are getting some great submissions, thanks everyone

[Discus-n00b]

Bump, get those submissions in!

[Discus-n00b]

Bump. Last week to get submissions in for this month!

[DonMD]

Matt,

When do we get to see all the entries?

[Discus-n00b]

Don, the poll will be posted on Nov 1st, this Sat! This will be a fun contest, lots of breeding going on and great pics!

[musicmarn1]

actually really excited to see all the great pics of home breeders own pairs with fry, maybe next year for my own entry!

[Discus-n00b]

Voting is now open! The poll is located here http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showth...Pairs-with-fry

Just a reminder, any posts made in the poll thread WILL be deleted as to not influence voting for anyone else.

[Second Hand Pat]

Hey guys, please do not post in the voting thread. Use the poll at the top of the voting thread to register your vote.
Thanks,
Pat