Right then

Following on from the previous thread about a monthly assignment, here it is.

The rules are as follows, and fairly straightforward.

Each month, an assignment will be issued. This can be interpreted as broadly as you wish (and the aim is to have it fairly broad).

Post your entries for the month to this thread. the result will also be posted here.

The sole judge will be my girlfriend, now, to help those who do not know her as well as I do (which, hopefully is most of you...) she is not a photographer, but a classically trained artist. As a hint, she is a sucker for a good composition, above all else really...

As it is a monthly competition, and there is a bit of time for reflection, I would like to have a bit of critique in this. Not as in your face or brutal as the stigs, but some feedback. Now, SWMBO is a fairly positive type (sometimes, she even finds something good to say about my photos!), but if you really do not want a comment on your entry, please include the words "no comment" with the photo.

There are only two rules about the judging really..

1. The judge (Vicky) is always right.

2. If, by chance the judge is ever wrong, then rule one applies.

The first assignment, and time-scale, will follow in a couple of minutes.

If any clarity is required on the rules or the comp, please either post here or NM me.

<Edit> - In answer to a specific question, your entry does not need to be taken in the competition time frame, or indeed taken for the competition. If it fits the theme of the title, however shoehorned, go for it...
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-Nick G

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Month Three

The theme for month two is:

Hallowe'en

Please do not post entries until 10 October. Up to 30 September, please enter competition number 2, if you can find a suitable photo.

To reiterate, the theme can be interpreted as broadly as you wish. go for it peeps...

Month two

The theme for month two is:

To Sleep, perchance to dream

Please do not post entries until 10 September. Until 31 August, please enter competition number 1, if you can find a suitable photo.

To reiterate, the theme can be interpreted as broadly as you wish. go for it peeps...

Month one.

To get going, and in light of what has been going on, Assignment number one is...

Celebration.

The closing date for this is 31 August, thereafter, we should move to full calendar months.

-Nick G

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The proposed timetable for this competition is:

The new category will be announced around the 20th of the month

Entries should be posted to this thread between the 10th and the end of the month.

The results will be posted in the first 10 days of the month.

-Nick G

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The current theme for October is Hallowe'en.

Please get your entries in by October 31.

-Nick G

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By the way, if there is any interest in this, some replies would be good, to keep the thread visible.

If not, no worries, it can gently fade away.

-Nick G

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I think it's a good idea and will possibly have a go at entering.I do like competitions with a theme. Gives you something specific to shoot :-)

Does it have to be model orientated or could it be a photo of say, a street party?

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By the way, if there is any interest in this, some replies would be good, to keep the thread visible.

If not, no worries, it can gently fade away.

-Nick G

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Yeah, I'm still interested but will have to pass on the first one as the deadline is too tight for me. I am in the process of moving house and completion date is the 31st, so I have to be all packed up and moved out by then. I still have a LOT of packing up to do, so photography is out until the beginning of september (when I plan on chilling out and taking life easy for at least a fortnight).

Since I happened to have a photo that sort of matched the theme I might as well fling it in here, with little regard for my own or anybody else's safety.



I really wish that my face wasn't blurred out on this one. This was before I had the sense to not anonymise myself in my photos, but I still sort of like this one.

I do love a challenge, so I am entering my pic entitled 'Party for One!'



The illiteracy of the future will be ignorance not of reading or writing, but of photography.
No, I am not rude, I just say what everyone else hasn't the balls to say

The monthly competition is a good idea and hopefully it will lift morale and raise the viewing figures

My offering is of four sisters celebrating and having fun

Good stuff peoples, keep these coming in.

Depending on the response from potential sponsors, the winner will receive one of the following:

A luxury Cruise round the Mediterranean
A Photographic holiday in Tuscany, all expenses paid
Lifetime membership of the Groucho Club
A pat on the back
A year's supply of petrol.

-Nick G

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Good stuff peoples, keep these coming in.

Depending on the response from potential sponsors, the winner will receive one of the following:

A luxury Cruise round the Mediterranean
A Photographic holiday in Tuscany, all expenses paid
Lifetime membership of the Groucho Club
A pat on the back
A year's supply of petrol.

-Nick G

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Oh man, i hope its the pat on the back *jumps excitedly*

That just happens to be my fetish.

My name is Pat, can I volunteer?

I would participate but I'm not going to be shooting anything related to the theme in the next fortnight so can't. Its a hard one to do without models!

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I would participate but I'm not going to be shooting anything related to the theme in the next fortnight so can't. Its a hard one to do without models!

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Fair enough.

You could always look for an interpretation that did not require models though...

See you next month, I hope.

-Nick G

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That pat on the back wouldn't be from a cow now, would it?

Well now, don't give me ideas.

-Nick G

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I actually have a very funny photo I done whilst having a shoot its a mess around warm up one. And thought it be ideal just to put it on here but unsure if it fits with the competition. Would it be allowed?

Oh wait. I just read it all properly and I dont think it would but it might put a few smiles on peoples faces

just post it!! The worst you can do is get disqualified :-)

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just post it!! The worst you can do is get disqualified :-)

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Well the worst that could happen is that you won't win.

I'd suggest, wait until the thread has dropped off the front page, then post your picture.

-Nick G

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No, the photo entered may be taken at any time.

-Nick G

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As I said I would take part, I better bung one in. Self-taken, as is obvious. Last year's Christmas Works Do

The second month theme is..

To Sleep, perchance to dream

A reminder, do not post entries for month two until 10 September. I am posting it simply to help people who wish to take shots for the competition.

A reminder that the theme can be interpreted as widely as you wish, and the wider the better.

Any questions, please feel free to ask. If you want to enter the current competition, please do.

Remember that bumping threads is not allowed on net model, but that is not my rule; for this thread, I positively encourage it...



-Nick G

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Thanks for the entries so far people.

You have a few days to enter the August competition (the clue being in the word "August"), with the theme Celebration.

-Nick G

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