Apologies again peeps - thought I had posted this earlier (before the puter went down). Anyway, the topic is ***ELEMENT***

The Rules:

* The competition is open now and will close on Wednesday 29th February 2012 at midnight (according to my calendar it's a leap year).
* 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 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 February 2012 until midnight on Wednesday 7th March 2012.
* 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

Al

The Entries:

Glass + W, Ar, N


Ice Elemental


Sodium


Fire & Ice


HydrogenHydrogenOxygen


H2O

Ooh! Great subject!

I've got an idea already.

Glass + W, Ar, N has just been submitted.

Al

Don't forget this is a short month, folks. Competition entries need to be in by midnight this coming Wednesday.

Ice Elemental has just been submitted.

Al

Sodium has just been submitted.

Al

How positively atomic is that.

Fire & Ice has just been submitted.

Al

HydrogenHydrogenOxygen has just been submitted.

Al

OK peeps - being that this year has an extra day in it, the powers-at-be have chosen February, specifically the end of February, as the chosen insertion point. This gives you just under 49 hours to get your entries in as the comp will close at midnight on Wednesday 29th. I understand this to be about a second before Thursday 1st

Al

I've ordered a prop for my entry, and it still hasn't arrived yet.

Getting a bit panicky now.

Now that's dedication.

Too little, too late though. It hasn't arrived.

It was a vinyl 7" single of Earth, Wind & Fire.

Were you going to stick it in a bucket of water

Close.