Woot.com is a clever e-commerce website selling just one item every day for a relatively low cost. Every week they hold a photo manip contest and most of the time it is just fluff. This one is just fluff, too, but there is a lot of creativity involved and I think it would be neat to see some real Caedes experts blow them away! Here is a description of the current contest and a the site URL below it. Also, you may be amused by looking at some of the other contests and getting a feel for past winners.
"Everybody knows how bitter it feels to just barely miss the awesomest photograph ever photographed. Just a second late to the shutter release and the Congressman stops picking his nose, the penny you'd balanced on its edge falls over, the presumed-extinct hummingbird flutters out of frame. Today's Vivitar camera offers a Burst mode that rapidly takes two pics in three seconds, but not every cam carries such niceties. The scourge of mistimed shooting will continue to plague shutterbugs everywhere, as you're about to show us.
Create a "snapshot" that would've been incredible had the photographer clicked the shutter a second earlier.
Whether it's a just-missed historical event or an almost-amazing image from everyday life, make it convincing, clever, and funny - there might be some long green in it for you. Post your image in this discussion thread by 11:59 PM Sunday night (01/29/2006). Prizes are $20/$50/$100 for 3rd/2nd/1st. The rules and criteria for winning: our panel of geniuses can and will make stuff up as it goes along. Use Photoshop, pen and ink, collage, MSPaint, colored sand, quilting, whatever, but it’ll only be judged if it’s visible in our forums as a jpg, gif, or png. Try to keep your maximum width to 450px. If you need a place to host your pictures, try www.imageshack.ws or www.photobucket.com. We have no connection to either, but they seem free and easy to use."
"Everybody knows how bitter it feels to just barely miss the awesomest photograph ever photographed. Just a second late to the shutter release and the Congressman stops picking his nose, the penny you'd balanced on its edge falls over, the presumed-extinct hummingbird flutters out of frame. Today's Vivitar camera offers a Burst mode that rapidly takes two pics in three seconds, but not every cam carries such niceties. The scourge of mistimed shooting will continue to plague shutterbugs everywhere, as you're about to show us.
Create a "snapshot" that would've been incredible had the photographer clicked the shutter a second earlier.
Whether it's a just-missed historical event or an almost-amazing image from everyday life, make it convincing, clever, and funny - there might be some long green in it for you. Post your image in this discussion thread by 11:59 PM Sunday night (01/29/2006). Prizes are $20/$50/$100 for 3rd/2nd/1st. The rules and criteria for winning: our panel of geniuses can and will make stuff up as it goes along. Use Photoshop, pen and ink, collage, MSPaint, colored sand, quilting, whatever, but it’ll only be judged if it’s visible in our forums as a jpg, gif, or png. Try to keep your maximum width to 450px. If you need a place to host your pictures, try www.imageshack.ws or www.photobucket.com. We have no connection to either, but they seem free and easy to use."
http://www.woot.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=422786&count=41&PageIndex=1
Good Luck!
~ Tara