Once again the Judges have dropped the ball.

O.K. I guess the judges have dropped the ball on us again, I made them aware that it was time to judge and they still neglected to make time to judge the images. I guess it is time to come up with a new judging system. So I have decided that starting now we will no longer rely on judges but will be self judged. I was hoping to have more photographers before we started self judging but I think we will have to give it a shot starting now. Here is how it will work. Each photographer can vote once and cannot vote for themselves. So after all of the images have been uploaded then the voting will start. We will maintain the same deadlines for uploading by midnight the 20th and the judging will start on the 22nd. That way if there are any late submissions due to electronic hiccups then I have 24 hours to get them uploaded. Starting next month each of you will be responsible for uploading your image, if you have questions as to how this is done feel free to call or email me. To vote just leave a comment for the image you like best, just type "vote" in the comment for the image you like. Votes cannot be left as anonymous, all anonymous votes will be deleted. All photographers may vote even if you do not submit an image you may still vote but your name must appear next to your vote. O.K. there are the voting guidelines lets see how this works for us. If you have read this then lets try it out for this months challenge. I will add the name of the photographers to the images that were submitted this month so you will know that I did not vote for myself.

Photoman

This image is submitted to late for the contest but I wanted it to be seen

Door & Doorways Entry 5

Judges,

I am allowing this image to be in the challenge even though it is late, due to a computer error. Please judge it also.

Photoman




Entry by Rodger Toothman

Door & Doorways Entry 4

Entry by Bryce Holland

Joe Franklin's June photo

A note to the judges,

Please feel free to leave feedback on this photo, however Joe is only doing the challenge for fun as he currently does not have the correct type of camera required for the challenge. I would also like to welcome Joe to the Challenge, I am glad that he has joined and I look forward to seeing his images each month.

Photoman


I had a lot of fun with doors and doorways. Hope you all did too!

Joe

Doors & Doorways Entry 3

Entry by Photoman

Doors & Doorways Entry 2

Entry by Saralee Lenhart

Doors & Doorways Entry 1

Entry by Brandon Lenhart

June's Challenge

Well last months challenge was kind of a bust, I must say that I am a little disappointed that only one person attempted the challenge. I cannot say much though as I didn't participate either. Lets not have a repeat in June, there are 12 photographers who have signed up for the challenge lets see if we can have at least 10 entries this month. Enough lecturing lets get to the challenge,
this months challenge is...........

Doors and Doorways

Good hunting everyone,

Photoman

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.

Photoman

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.

Photoman

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.

Photoman

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