It would seem that the contest for September 2006 never really happened (my, that's a long thread though) and since I'd just seen the perfect idea I thought I'd suggest it as a contest for October.
I'm willing to bet that this superb idea of mine is very old hat and gets suggested on every contest thread, so feel free to use this as the "tell Morat he's a dumbo" thread.
So, my idea is simple. Every time I upload an image the instructions tell me I have to comply with the snapshot policy, and right in there it says...
"Obviously it is possible for a talented photographer to take any of these topics and create something wonderful"
So how about it. A competition where you have to create acceptable images that would normally breach the snapshot policy, because they either contain (grand)children, friends or pets, or are "Out of focus Polaroid photos taken from a moving frame of reference, scanned into the computer at 60x80px, then scaled up to 1600x1200 in Photoshop with a meticulously positioned lens flare and a HUGE watermark to keep people from "stealing" it, don't forget to save it with the highest JPEG compression so that you get every little compression artifact in crisp detail."
I'm willing to bet that this superb idea of mine is very old hat and gets suggested on every contest thread, so feel free to use this as the "tell Morat he's a dumbo" thread.
So, my idea is simple. Every time I upload an image the instructions tell me I have to comply with the snapshot policy, and right in there it says...
"Obviously it is possible for a talented photographer to take any of these topics and create something wonderful"
So how about it. A competition where you have to create acceptable images that would normally breach the snapshot policy, because they either contain (grand)children, friends or pets, or are "Out of focus Polaroid photos taken from a moving frame of reference, scanned into the computer at 60x80px, then scaled up to 1600x1200 in Photoshop with a meticulously positioned lens flare and a HUGE watermark to keep people from "stealing" it, don't forget to save it with the highest JPEG compression so that you get every little compression artifact in crisp detail."
How about it?