Janet (AT)
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Is it up and running yet?
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Photo competition....
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Photo competition
Apologies for delay with this.
Competition now up and running!
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Apologies for delay with this.
Competition now up and running!
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Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC)
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How does a chap go about entering the photo competition?
Rodney Wrestt
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Graham Marsden
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The competition has been up and running for a couple of days but only two entries.
Is anyone finding it difficult to enter, or is there some other reason why few want to win 50 quid's worth of tackle and be in with a chance of £500's worth?
Just curious as it's hard to source these prizes and when so few seem to want to have a go we do wonder why as we're anxious to sort out any problems - if there are any.
There are so many great photos in the Gallery I would have thought FM members would jump at the chance of a photo competition.
Have we got that wrong?
Is anyone finding it difficult to enter, or is there some other reason why few want to win 50 quid's worth of tackle and be in with a chance of £500's worth?
Just curious as it's hard to source these prizes and when so few seem to want to have a go we do wonder why as we're anxious to sort out any problems - if there are any.
There are so many great photos in the Gallery I would have thought FM members would jump at the chance of a photo competition.
Have we got that wrong?
ED (The ORIGINAL and REAL one)
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Graham,
Can you enter photos that have been shown in "Featured Photos from the FM Gallery" or do they have to be new/unused photos??
Can you enter photos that have been shown in "Featured Photos from the FM Gallery" or do they have to be new/unused photos??
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Graham Marsden
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The 'Featured Photos' that Ed's referring to are those that scroll across the top of the forum main page. They're random and automatic and at some time or other will show each and every photo in the Gallery (not the 'All Albums').
Any of your own photos in the Gallery can be entered in the competition.
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The rules for the Photo Competition can be found here.
Any of your own photos in the Gallery can be entered in the competition.
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The rules for the Photo Competition can be found here.
Paul H
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I've used Rodney's link and can see the competition entries so far but I'm damned if I can find any way of submitting an entry of my own.
Graham Marsden
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Paul, click this link and on the right of the dark green bar you'll see 'Upload Photos'.
Click on that and you'll find a drop-down box with all the various categories you can upload to - from the link above it will already be at 'August/September Photo Competition'.
Click 'Browse' and select the photo you want to upload from your computer.
Enter a title and description and any key words you want to include.
Click on that and you'll find a drop-down box with all the various categories you can upload to - from the link above it will already be at 'August/September Photo Competition'.
Click 'Browse' and select the photo you want to upload from your computer.
Enter a title and description and any key words you want to include.
Chris Hammond ( RSPB ACA PAC}
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Is there a theme to the competition?
There appears to be size restrictions too, I can put it in my album, in my Blog,but not in the competition????So I gave up!
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Hi Paul,
When you use the link, the Upload image option is just bellow your details on the top right on the screen.
rookie_fly_guy
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I'd like to enter, but it would be handy if we knew what to post a photo of.
A photo of a fish? Of someone fishing? Of a nice fishing spot? I was expecting someone to do a post stating something like "This months competition is for the best photo of...." and then something like an action shot of someone fishing, dawn fishing, a pic of a carp, a pic of a game fish etc etc etc.
So as soon as someone lets me know what they want piccies of I'll be happy to post
A photo of a fish? Of someone fishing? Of a nice fishing spot? I was expecting someone to do a post stating something like "This months competition is for the best photo of...." and then something like an action shot of someone fishing, dawn fishing, a pic of a carp, a pic of a game fish etc etc etc.
So as soon as someone lets me know what they want piccies of I'll be happy to post
ED (The ORIGINAL and REAL one)
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Anything --- as long as it's something to do with fishing ....
Jeff Woodhouse
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Well, it could be a squirrel running up a tree next to your swim or a fox trying to mate with your rod holdall. Just so long as you took it whilst out fishing or watching other things as well as fishing.
It's an open book!
geoffmaynard
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Well - I just managed it okay, first time. I had to guess at file size, dimensions etc (I went for 500 pixels wide as an optimised low res jpg) so if there are restrictions on those elements I think they could be made clearer. Other than that I can't see any problem with uploading/entering.
Perhaps we could use a 'competitions' button on the front page navigation to promote it a little more? At the moment only forum visitors can discover we are running a comp and even they have to look for it. I think it needs to be a bit more 'in yer face'.
Perhaps we could use a 'competitions' button on the front page navigation to promote it a little more? At the moment only forum visitors can discover we are running a comp and even they have to look for it. I think it needs to be a bit more 'in yer face'.
Graham Marsden
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The Theme for this Competition is 'Rivers'
OK, let's take it from here.
The theme for the August/September Photo Competition is 'RIVERS'.
River scenes, river fish, river fishing, anything to do with rivers and river fishing.
Photos should be no more than 990 pixels wide and 100k in size.
If you've made an entry that isn't river related please delete it and start again.
Thanks.
OK, let's take it from here.
The theme for the August/September Photo Competition is 'RIVERS'.
River scenes, river fish, river fishing, anything to do with rivers and river fishing.
Photos should be no more than 990 pixels wide and 100k in size.
If you've made an entry that isn't river related please delete it and start again.
Thanks.
Shine
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Shine
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Does it have to be rivers Graham. Half the people on here including myself probably dont go river fishing.
Graham Marsden
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I can't change it again now. And don't forget, the other half will have their turn when (and if) the theme is stillwaters
Seriously though, you don't have to fish rivers to get a picture of a river, and it can't be much harder to get a picture of an angler fishing a river.
Seriously though, you don't have to fish rivers to get a picture of a river, and it can't be much harder to get a picture of an angler fishing a river.