Weekly Featured Image: Ongoing Contest

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This is the place to submit and vote on photos to be featured on the the main site and on our blog. This contest should showcase your best quality work, demonstrating at least moderate skill with a camera and a general understanding of the artistic aspects of photography. Remember, the selected photo will be displayed on our main site header for a week. Submit something that you and the members of our site will want to look at and admire for seven days! This contest is for the community to choose what they LIKE (not what they dislike), so downvotes aren't allowed — see below for more.

Contest Format

Starting in December 2012, this contest follows a new perpetual format with continuously-rolling voting. Submit and vote on photos whenever you like. Every Monday (give or take; it's done by hand when site moderators have a spare moment), the top-voted image will be selected as the winner, and:

  • moved to the Winners' Hall of Fame

  • featured on the main site header for the next week

  • and, coming soon, featured in a blog post.

Then, the contest will continue with the remaining photos in the thread.

(Note that the themed photo contest will work on a different scheme.)

Voting Rules

  • Vote up as many images as you like.

  • Make sure to look at the "active" tab for this question to see new submissions.

  • Up votes only! Do NOT vote down your competitors! If you don't like an image, don't vote. (If you notice a downvote on an entry, make a note in a comment, and that will be taken into account when the weekly winner is selected.)

  • When you vote, consider the small size primarily, even if a larger image is linked. This contest's primary function is to select a header image, and we need the winners to be successful at that size.

Submitter Rules

  • Showcase your best work in any genre of photography by providing your image inline in an answer.

  • You may enter one photo per week. This is on the honor system, but abuse will eventually earn a strong talking-to.

  • Don't re-enter the same photo. Since the contest is continual, there's no need. You may withdraw an image from the contest at any time by deleting the answer.

  • You may edit your entry to fix problems or to add missing information, but don't switch the photo itself for a different one, or make gratuitous edits simply to "bump" the entry.

  • Images must be 210 px high and up to 375 px wide. This is the requirement for the header. Please feel free to provide a link to a larger version, but as explained above, the primary focus is on the header image.

  • For the same reason, images must be in landscape orientation.

  • Images must not contain any artificially added borders or of any kind.

  • Do not use this as a forum for photo critique. Use chat instead, or ask a specific question about your image on the main site.

  • The submitted image must conform to this site's content license, cc-wiki with attribution required. This will only apply to the low-resolution version provided on the site directly, not to the same photograph in other formats or to linked images, but if you're not comfortable with that, this isn't the contest for you.

Submitter notes

Be patient! This contest is relatively obscure, and it takes a while for images to accumulate votes. It's normal for really excellent images to have only one or two upvotes even after a time. The format of the contest should let them rise to the top eventually.

Feel free to include a concise description that explains the image, the emotions behind it, and so on, and perhaps some explanation of gear and exposure settings. This site is a collaboration for teaching and learning, so it's great to know those things — but it's not required for the contest.

When we get up and running with featuring these photos on the blog, this will provide the opportunity to go into more depth and to engage in conversation about your work.

Community Wiki?

Please don't make your posts community wiki, or convert the whole thread. (details on that...)

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edited Feb 12 at 14:23

asked Dec 4 '12 at 22:10
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mattdm
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As with all past contests, I'd like to stress the up-vote only policy. Let's keep our contest cordial. This is not a place for critique or a forum within which to express dislike, choose what you like, have fun, and let the contest roll! – jrista♦ Dec 4 '12 at 22:22
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I do have to say, I like this continuous voting. I always had to reserve my vote for the very end in case we needed a tie breaker...and I often forgot to. Now we can simply take whoever is on top, tie or not, as the winner, and I can vote at any time, and actually cast a vote when I remember to. – jrista♦ Dec 5 '12 at 19:22
Let's keep the comments here short and discuss the meta aspects of the contest over in this thread. – mattdm Dec 7 '12 at 15:29
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See also: Regarding ties. Regarding image size/shape/orientation. – jrista♦ Jan 8 at 1:53
Why don't you close this question so that no new photos are submitted to it? Is this going to be the last weekly featured image question? – Meysam Jan 22 at 19:24
@Meysam: This is a continuous contest. New photos are supposed to be submitted to it. – mattdm Jan 22 at 19:31
@mattdm As far as I can remember, each week had its own thread. Like this: meta.photo.stackexchange.com/q/2637/8756 Is this thread any different? – Meysam Jan 22 at 20:24
@Meysam: Yes, this is different. See this post for background if the above isn't clear enough. And I'm open to suggestions on how to make it more clear. – mattdm Jan 22 at 20:28
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I have removed Wiki from the topic as well. I do not believe we want the rules of our contest to be freely edited. I believe there should be some restriction on who can edit, at the very least new and newish members should NOT have the ability to edit our contest rules at will. Anyone who has the rep to edit a non-wiki post should be able to edit this one, and yet even then, we don't want the rules to be edited without prior discussion. – jrista♦ Feb 4 at 20:11
Yeah. It doesn't really belong to me; I just started it (copying most of the rules from the previous posts). I guess in retrospect I should have created a sock puppet account to own it, but, oh well. – mattdm Feb 4 at 20:14
Well, you/we may still be able to do that. The list of deleted photos is starting to build up at the end of this thread. In another month or so, it might become unmanageable, warranting a fresh thread. We could use a sock puppet account at that time. – jrista♦ Feb 4 at 20:17
Looks like it's happening automatically. This seems like a bug, because once a mod reverts an auto-CW conversion, that's supposed to stick. I'll bring that up on meta.stackoverflow.com. – mattdm Feb 12 at 16:32
Are you sure it is happening automatically? I've never seen a thread manually reverted convert back... – jrista♦ Feb 12 at 17:32
@jrista: me either. But see Matt Ball's comment below. – mattdm Feb 12 at 17:41
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Not really...it's just that I am the sole person managing it, and I barely have time to live, let alone do anything with PhotoSE. I used to have some help from @rfusca, but I think life completely consumed him...we may find an excreted rfusca pellet at some point near Atlanta... Anyway, I have been unable to keep completely on top of the contest, so I'm off by a day or two each time I update the header, which has skewd when I update it. – jrista♦ Mar 6 at 23:43
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Smoke Curl

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Camera: Canon 550D
Lens: Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8-4.5 DC OS HSM
Focal Length: 18mm
Aperture: f/2.8
Shutter: 1/250
ISO: 3200

Large version.

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really cool, esp. given the musical context. – Michael Nielsen Jan 7 at 18:50
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Love this shot! Keep pausing on this every time I scroll up and down to see the other entries. So simple but so much going on at the same time. Great story, light, awesome mood. Already voted for it a while back but if I could I would again. – Jakub Jan 16 at 13:59
thank you for your positive comments :) – Bart Arondson Jan 16 at 14:16
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I voted you up even though I have my own shot in the contest. I really mean this and I'm not asking for your vote on my image or anything. – Evan Pak Jan 19 at 0:35
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Thank you @EvanPak, that is very kind of you. – Bart Arondson Jan 23 at 23:05
No problem @BartArondson – Evan Pak Jan 23 at 23:30
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A golden morning

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Larger image on flickr

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edited Jan 21 at 13:36

answered Dec 31 '12 at 9:16
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Great image, I love the sky and the layered mountains/hills. I voted you up. I know this isn't a critique, but I can't help myself. I would recommend cropping out the few pixels or at least burning the very bright "reflection" at the bottom right. It is distracting to me. Great work though! – dpollitt Jan 21 at 3:51
Thanks for the feedback @dpollitt. Cropped it a bit. I edited my post to link to a slightly cropped image. I hope it doesn't violate any rules. – Vikas Jan 21 at 13:38
@mattdm, thanks for pointing out. Fixed. – Vikas Feb 13 at 4:14
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Cheshire Grin

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I found her as an orphaned kitten on the streets of a distant city. Today, hopefully, she's much happier.

Canon EOS 500D (18-55mm) and a fair bit of Photoshop. Click on the image or here for larger size.

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From the rules above: You may edit your entry to fix problems or to add missing information, but don't switch the photo itself for a different one. That's not fair, as it transfers votes for one image to a new one. You are allowed to submit multiple entries — simply add a new answer. – mattdm Jan 25 at 19:32
Okay, no problem. I wanted to delete this photo and add another, so I just edited it. I get your point. I'll add another answer and let this one be. – Abhranil Das Jan 25 at 19:44
You can delete this one if you want, but it does look like some people liked it. – mattdm Jan 25 at 19:48
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Golden Gate

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9.2 MP version can be found here (don't know why there's so much moiré on some of the cables, though).

Camera info:

  • Camera: SLT-A55V
  • Lens: DT 18-70mm ƒ3.5-5.6 @ 18mm and ƒ5
  • ISO 100
  • 1/400s
  • 0.3 EV
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I really like the feel and mood, nice! – dpollitt Jan 21 at 3:52
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Thanks! It took ages to get the fog to clear up enough to see the top of the near tower. – Jules Mazur Jan 22 at 14:23
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Autumn...

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Larger version here.

Nikon D3100

Sigma 18-250 mm F3,5-6,3 DC OS HSM

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edited Dec 13 '12 at 20:47

answered Dec 13 '12 at 13:31
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