The chaps have colluded and decided this months topic is.... ***DECAY***

The Rules:

* 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 size, 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 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 less than 1.5Mb
* 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 midnight on the last day of December until midnight on Friday 7th January 2011 - that's next year .
* 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:

Didn't Keep


Remains of The Day


Neglected Pride


Agent of Decay


Make Way For The Mushrooms

What a rotten theme.

Remains of a turkey carcass in a couple of weeks anyone?

pics of old people

You were expecting a jolly christmas theme?

How to encapsulate 2010 in one image?

Mark

Anyone have any teeth that have fallen out of a mouth?

Mark

when someone kicked a bottle straight into my big tooth yes it fell out and I swallowed it, now I got fake front teeth with metal pins

Actually it is a very good theme (I already have an idea). I was being sarcastic and playing with words.

I've loads of images I brought back from Egypt that would fit this theme.

Mark

Dear god! on the way to work I thought "mm if I were choosing I would choose Decay!!".. freaky coincidence

I thought you might be joshing, but the choice of smiley suggested otherwise.

Have you been to Egypt since the theme was announced?

Mr Mark is perfectly correct -

* Go out and take a photo, fitting in the theme and rules.

The fact that he had the foresight to predict your chosen topic is most admirable

Al

Cheers Al.
Most know by now that I don't plunder my archives (no matter how recent) for entries in this comp.
If I don't take it for the comp, I don't enter.
So I'll not be using any of the Egypt images I took, Spreadie. (8+p
I was thinking of letting a few slices of bread (maybe a loaf) go off then photographing that, but I don't really have anywhere to keep the bread while it decomposes, so that's that idea out.

Mark