No Judging Is Necessary This Month

I can officially congratulate Bryce Holland for winning this months challenge. I also want to give him extra cudos for being the only participant to accept the challenge this month. This challenge is my brainchild and I didn't even make the time to participate. We currently have 12 photographers who have signed up to be a part of the challenge and have a few more who have been invited but have not yet accepted their invitation. Hopefully this will be the last month that we have only 1 image submitted.

Entry 1

A Reminder

Just a reminder as we have some new photographers that have joined recently, this months challenge theme is PATHS AND PASSAGES. Good luck and happy shooting the deadline is the 20th at midnight.

A rule change!

I am going to allow images to be cropped but only to a square format. So your options are full frame just as it was shot or square frame keeping one side (the shorter duh) its original dimension and cropping the longer to match it. Please let me know if you have any questions about this change. This rule as all rules are subject to change at any time as needed as the challenge grows. A quick reminder, you are allowed to make minor changes in Photoshop to your image, if you are able to make the adjustments in your camera then you are allowed to make them in Photoshop (or whatever software you use to manipulate your images) but only minor adjustments please.

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Welcome to the new photographers.

I would like to welcome David Nicely a co competitor of Shoot the Hills and Scott Huck the Staff Photographer of Cedarville University to the Challenge. I will also say that I have extended an invitation to 2 other photographers but they have not joined yet. These 2 additional photographers brings us to a total of 11 photographers to date. I also want each of you to know that you are welcome to invite other photographers to join the challenge. Just let me know and I will give them an official invite.

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And the Winner is......

Congratulations Jeff West you are the winner for the month of April. I must apologize to all that the judging was so late. I am not sure what happened and therefor I am rethinking how to make this work better. Until I can come up with a better plan we are going to be status quoe with the judges that I have in place. As a result of the late notice of the winner I am going to choose May's theme. For the month of May our theme is Paths or Passages happy hunting and shoot well. I really hope more of you can participate this month.

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Another Entry

I know it's past the due date, however, if Gary is gonna extend the deadline, and this was taken only 3 days after the deadline, I'd thought I'd give it a shot.... (now that Gary is having a heart attach, I'm just kidding. This image is just for viewing pleasure!)

My Apologies

I am not quite sure what happened to my judges this month but for some reason they all forgot to judge the competition. I am trying to get it done and if it doesn't happen tomorrow I will just have to extend the deadline for this month.

Reflections photo entry

Reflections photo entry

Reflections photo entry

Reflections photo entry

April's Challenge

Well once again congrats to Bryce for his image of the flower in the road image. Bryce chose the challenge for April. So everyone needs to start looking for REFLECTIONS, not just any reflections though. Your reflection must include water in some form as a part of the image. So you have about 3 days to start thinking of your idea for next months challenge. I will remind you that you cannot shoot the image before April 1st and it must be uploaded or emailed to me before April 21st. So good hunting gals and guys, I am looking for more photographers if you know someone who shoots with a digital slr that would like to join let me know.

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And the winner is.....

The Scores are Entry 6 - 69 points, Entry 5 - 69 points, Entry 4 - 74 points, Entry 3 - 65 points, Entry 2 - 65 points and Entry 1 - 79 points.

So the winner is Entry #1 by Bryce Holland with 79 points, way to go Bryce nice shot. Bryce will choose from a list of themes for next months theme. I will post the new theme as soon as I get an answer from Bryce.

Don't forget to take a shot at judging an image from one of our Judges, this judge learned real quick just how dificult this months challenge was. Be nice but rate the image honestly on the same things we are rated on.

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Roadside Distraction

I will have the winner posted shortly, I just found out that judge #3 has sent me their scores via email instead of uploading them directly so I will post their scores soon and name the winner as well.

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From a Judge - Roadside Distraction

O.K. Photographers here is an image from one of the judges it is this judges idea of a roadside distraction. Here is your turn to critique the judges. So be nice but be honest and tell this judge what you think of their image as it relates to this months competition.



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Entry 6

Judges and photographers, I am allowing this entry to go up late as it is my fault. It was sent to me yesterday and I didn't upload it. I was having trouble with my email and I got a phone call today from the photographer asking why their photograph wasn't up. I apologize for my error.

Entry 5

Entry 4

Entry 3