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Second Hand Pat
05-31-2014, 09:07 AM
Dear SimplyDiscus Membership,

We will be accepting photo's for June's photo contest starting tomorrow, June 1. We had good participation in May's contest with the voting hot and heavy on a couple of the photos. Thanks to all who participated and congrats to Ryan (rdiscus) for winning that contest.

The theme for June is Planted Tanks and here's a chance to showcase those planted tanks. Remember that the photos must contain discus, after all this is a discus forum :D. Last month we had some members submit more then one photo and the member was asked to select one photo for the contest. So only one photo per member please. 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 1/4 lbs of Super Beef heart flake from Bill of Inland Empire Discus http://www.inlandempirediscus.com/. Bill will also upgrade the prize to 1/2 lbs for $10 (paid by the winner). Thank you Bill for the fantastic 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 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 themes for the upcoming months are

1) Biotopes (July)
2) Coolest Group Shots (August)

nc0gnet0
05-31-2014, 02:30 PM
1) You must be the person that took the picture and has permission to use it.

I am assuming that this means the picture submitted has to be taken by the one submitting the picture, but does not have to be of a tank/discus/etc owned by the one submitting the picture as long as he/she has permission?


-Rick

Second Hand Pat
05-31-2014, 02:41 PM
Lol Rick, yes than would be correct.

nc0gnet0
05-31-2014, 02:55 PM
Interesting, I just might have to enter.

Second Hand Pat
05-31-2014, 03:13 PM
Go for it Rick. :)

Argentum
06-01-2014, 04:34 AM
Is this limited to the fully planted tanks?

Or would any tank with plants fit, Like a BB with Drift wood and some Anubias and javamoss?

Second Hand Pat
06-01-2014, 07:46 AM
Is this limited to the fully planted tanks?

Or would any tank with plants fit, Like a BB with Drift wood and some Anubias and javamoss?

I think a reasonable effort at a planted tank is the intend for this theme. Next month is biotope. You decide which theme your picture fits best. :)
Pat

Argentum
06-01-2014, 08:24 AM
I guess it won't fit in any ... lol

There should be a theme for BB tanks as most of us here do BB i guess

Second Hand Pat
06-01-2014, 08:30 AM
How about the theme for August, Coolest Group Shots?

Argentum
06-01-2014, 10:28 AM
How about the theme for August, Coolest Group Shots?

Yup, Your right. That should work :)

musicmarn1
06-01-2014, 06:57 PM
LOVETHISTHANKYOU!!!

fishman667
06-07-2014, 02:04 PM
i emailed my photos!

Second Hand Pat
06-07-2014, 03:00 PM
i emailed my photos!

Hi Robbie, I got your email. Please email me back with the ONE photo you want entered in the contest since you sent multiple photos.
Thanks,
Pat

fishman667
06-08-2014, 01:01 PM
hey sorry didn't see that it said 1 photo, resent the one photo i want in the contest. :)

Second Hand Pat
06-09-2014, 08:20 PM
Last day for submissions is tomorrow guys.

Second Hand Pat
06-11-2014, 09:17 PM
Voting thread is here http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showthread.php?114488-Photo-Contest-June-2014-Planted-Tanks