John's Picture a Day Challenge: September 2008

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

September 30th, 2008

Day 61

John

Clouds

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Jan

(Almost) Nothin' But Blue Skies

Monday, September 29, 2008

September 29th, 2008

Day 60

Jan

Hello Dolly!

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John

Clouds over Autumn

September 28th, 2008

Day 59

John

The Old Fort

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Jan

Can You See Me Now?

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Terry

Rendezvous

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Sharon

Rendezvous Melodrama

Thursday, September 25, 2008

September 25th, 2008

Day 56

John

Sunrise and Moonset over Caledonia

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Terry

Grammy's Place

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

September 24th, 2008

Day 55

John

Killdeer
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Terry

Balloon

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September 23rd, 2008

Day 54

Terry

Fishin'

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Jan

Ascher

September 22nd, 2008

Day 53

Terry

Azteca

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Jan

Seeaplsee

September 21st, 2008

Day 52

Terry

Tropical Dome

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Sharon

Hot Tubbin' Toes

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John

As Far as We Got

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Jan

Alps in the Beer

September 20th, 2008

Day 51

Sharon

Las Ninas Bonitas

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Terry

Gelly Phish

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John

The Beginning

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Jan

Raindrops keep Falling

September 19th, 2008

Day 50

Terry

Apple Pickin'

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John

Progress?

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Jan

McDonald's Drive Through

Thursday, September 18, 2008

September 18th, 2008

Day 49

John

Like Father, Like Son

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Terry

Elk

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Jan

Matterhorn

September 17th, 2008

Day 48

John

Dig It

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Terry

Three French Hens

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Sharon

Sculpture by Bored Boy

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Jan

Fellow Hiker

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

September 16th, 2008

Day 47

John

The Leaves, They are A Changin'

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Jan

Piz Gloria

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Terry

Summer Sky

from 9/15

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Sunday, September 14, 2008

September 14th, 2008

Day 45

John

Rain's Done

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Patresa

Table-less Legs

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Sharon

Dinner Time

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Terry

6 Bottles

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Jan

Web in the Mist

September 13th, 2008

Day 44

John

Three Trees

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Patresa

Ebu

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Steph

Closer Than They Appear

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Jan

Little Cabin in the Woods

Saturday, September 13, 2008

September 12th, 2008

Day 43

John

Spider's Work

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Steph

500 Pieces

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Voting

Send an e-mail to pictureadaychallenge@gmail.com with your favorite five pictures from the previous month in the order you would place them. Voting will start on the first of the month and finish on the third. Results and winning pictures will be shown on the fourth of each month. Only the top three will receive the Gold, Silver and Bronze.

All winning pictures will be automatically entered in the Picture of the Year contest.

One vote per e-mail address. If you share an e-mail, then it's time to get your own so you can vote too!

The Rules

1. I get to judge what appropriate content is and post accordingly. Use your common sense before you send pics. This is a family friendly site.

2. Before I post pictures of people, I need to have a signed waiver saying it's OK and legal to use their image.

3. Judging will be done in two ways...

1) Votes for 'Best Picture' by the public. (one vote per person)
2) A mystery 'guest judge' who will have a 49% vote on the final winning picture. (one mystery judge per challenge)

4. No photoshopping. Just take the picture and send it if you like it. You may turn a color shot into black & white or sepia. You may crop and adjust the lightness or darkness. Anything you could do in a good old fashioned darkroom is probably ok. Just no special effects.

5. Be honest. Don't go digging through all of your old pictures to find the best ones. The idea behind this challenge is to get out and take more pictures. If you send me a picture that you took on any other day other than the one we are all in, I won't post it. I won't even acknowledge it. I might photoshop it in some way and send it back. So play fair - remember the goal. Take more pictures TODAY!

6. One picture per person, per day. Don't send me a bunch and try and make me choose, as I will just send them all back along with a picture of every President our country has ever had (and two of William Henry Harrison as he looks particularly dour.)

7. Titles and/or captions for your pictures are ok. Stories are not.

8. Prizes will be awarded in the following catagories and judged by the criteria listed in number 3...
A) Best Picture of the Month
B) Best Picture of the Year

9. If you are not having fun, don't do it.

The Challenge will start officially on August 1, 2008 and will end promptly at midnight on July 31, 2009 (or thereabouts)

I reserve the right to amend or change the rules at any time, but will only do so for the betterment of the challenge. Any suggestions for rules should be sent to me at the e-mail listed on this site.

Addendum - Vacations

Some folks have the luxury of getting away from it all for a few days every now and then. Sometimes during these vacations it is downright hard to get to a computer to download a picture for the Picture a Day Challenge. So, in keeping with the policy of trusting the submitting photographers, a new rule is born...

If you are gone for a time and take some stellar pictures, go ahead and submit them for the day they were taken. Again, you are on the honor system, keep to the spirit of the challenge and take more pictures! I will then add them to the appropriate day.

This does not mean that if you forget to send a picture in for the day you can just save them up and send them at the end of the week. Please try to send the picture on the day that you took it. Thanks.

The Prizes

Judging will be done by the public and the mystery judge on the first three days of each month for the previous month's best picture, and between Aug 1, 2009 and Aug 7, 2009 for the Picture of the Year. There will be a Gold, Silver, and Bronze prize awarded. There will be no real gold, silver or bronze distributed however.

The winners will receive the following...

1. The satisfaction of sending in many good pictures.

2. The joy of taking pictures every day or two or three.

3. The knowledge that your picture won.

4. People everywhere thinking to themselves 'Man, I wish I took pictures that good!'

All results are final and just for fun anyway. So enjoy!

Submissions

Email me at pictureadaychallenge@gmail.com to sign on to the challenge. I will e-mail back a welcome letter and a waiver that has to be signed by anyone you are taking a picture of. (See 'Waiver Details' at the bottom ot the page)

Email your photo of the day (and waivers if required) to pictureadaychallenge@gmail.com

Each submission will be screened for appropriateness and legality and posted on the day and in the order it was received.

Each submission needs to be e-mailed before midnight central time to be included in that day's group.

Each submission is still the property of the photographer, and can be removed at any time by the moderator or photographer with a written(e-mailed) request.

If you would like your picture published under a psudonym that's fine, just let me know.

Waiver Details

Due to the litigious society we live in, no pictures of people or places with logos will be published without the express written consent of the subject. Once you send me an e-mail signing on to the challenge, you will get a waiver e-mailed to you to print out. Any pictures requiring waivers that are sent in without them cannot be published. Sorry. Them's the rules. Signed waivers should preferably be scanned and e-mailed to this site. If you can't do that, contact me for other arrangements.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Monday, September 29, 2008

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Welcome!

The Spirit of the Challenge

Picture Quest

Voting

The Rules

Addendum - Vacations

The Prizes

Submissions

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Takers of The Challenge

Blog Archive

About Me

My Other Blog

Waiver Details