Animals

The Rules:

* The competition is open now and will close on 31st July at midnight.
* Competition may be extended depending on number of entries.
* PM me your submissions.
* ONE photo per user, however you may CHANGE your submitted photo at any time up to the due date by sending me a PM.
* There is no maximum or minimum image dimensions, we are not here to discriminate against hardware.
* Only very light editing is allowed. Adjustment of Levels, Colour Correction, Contrast, Sharpening and Cropping is allowed.
* This thread will be closed at the specified time (end of the month). No extra entries will be accepted, except under special circumstances.
* Entries breaking these rules will not be entered.
* The forum policy on images and content must be followed.
* If you wish to remain anonymous even after voting has finished, then please let me know when you are submitting your image.
* Ensure you enclose a title and please make sure whatever host you use I can download the pic.

The Process:

* Please keep the image size to something reasonable, i.e. no RAW images.

* Go out and take a photo, fitting in the theme and rules.
* Post your entry to me by PM, I will host it and post it.
* When the due date passes, the entries thread will be closed, and a voting thread created to determine the favourite.
* You will not be able to vote for your own entry.

The Tips:

* Think laterally, not literally. Makes for an interesting piece.
* Try to make everyone think about what they're looking at.
* Do what YOU think is right. Art is very subjective. What's great to you, sucks to someone else, etc.
* Title your work, it will make your choices more obvious
* This is nothing serious, have fun while you're doing it.

Voting:

* Voting occurs for one week from the 1st August until midnight on 7th August
* After voting has finished the winner chooses the next theme within a couple of days.
* Once the new theme has been chosen entries may be submitted at any time up to midnight on the last day of the month.

Good luck


The Entries:

Resting Fly


Sunbathing


Young Arm Breakers


The Lion Sleeps Tonight


Neigh Sir Nay


Kitty With Flowers


You Lookin' At Me?


Lurking In The Undergrowth

I ecxpect lots of fluffy cuteness

Scoring high for quality and quantity of entries this time round.

Indeed. Good choice of topic.
Roll on the voting.

Maybe the winners in the past chose more cryptic topics to make things difficult for people?

I thought people chose ambiguously named topics to encourage lateral thinking, not to make it difficult - that would kinda defeat the point of picking a topic, no?

Maybe Caz means 'Christ, I've got a good photo on the hard drive...'

Who said I entered? And anyway if I do enter I always take fresh pics

I meant that might be the thinking of any winner! In relation to what Spreadie had said.

That's true