by Dave Warner on August 24, 2011
To celebrate and honor the beautiful splendor of America, the Smithsonian Channel and “Aerial America,” one of the most expansive TV projects about our nation, is hosting a national photo competition on Flickr. We want to encourage everyone to submit their best photos of anywhere in America, including their own hometowns!
The Grand Prize Winner will receive $3,000 for their winning photo.
• All non-professional photographers can submit entries! They just have to be at least 18 years old at the time of entry and a legal resident of the 50 US states and Washington DC.
• Contestants can submit photos taken this summer on their family vacation or memorable photos they took in the past, into any of the 5 categories. All submissions MUST be photographs taken in the United States. There are no restrictions to the date the photo was taken. [click to continue…]
by Dave Warner on August 4, 2009
Mike Wong of onOne Software has joined with LensFlare35 in the Great Locations Photo Contest. The idea is to get Canon Photographers to submit 10 photos that show a Great Location. What would that be? Well, take a look at the Great Locations section of this site, and you’ll soon get an idea of what we’re looking for. The Adirondacks, Caddo Lake in Texas, the Slot Canyons in Arizona; those are ALL Great Photo Locations! What’s yours? Well, let’s see if your 10 photos can get all of us to agree to that!
The winner of the contest will get a copy of the onOne Software Plugin Suite 4.5 – something that if you bought all the pieces by themselves, would cost almost $1,300.oo! If bought bundled, it would still set you back $500.00! So, a heck of a prize for those who don’t have those tools.
If you have any questions, please post them to this section so that ALL can get the answer right here!
Here are some of the rules for the contest, and the link to the Flickr Group:
1. All images MUST be taken with a Canon Camera.
2. All images MUST have embedded Metadata.
3. Each individual can enter NO MORE than 10 images for this contest. Those 10 images must be of the SAME place – a GREAT LOCATION!
4. Entrants retain ownership and all other rights to future use of the photographs they enter except for the following: Your entry to the contest constitutes your agreement to allow your entered photographs—and your name, occupation, city, state and country of residence—to be published as winners or finalists on the LensFlare35 website and used for promotions of the LensFlare35 site including, but not limited to, publications from LensFlare35 and online photo features and contests, and web pages and emails providing LensFlare35 information, updates, rules and photography tips.
5. Photographs will be judged on originality, technical excellence, composition, overall impact and artistic merit. All decisions by the judges will be final and binding.
6. Start date of the contest is August 15, 2009 and it ends on September 30, 2009 at midnight.
7. There will be three judges who will view the semi-finalists work.
8. If we’ve forgotten a rule, we’ll add it on the www.lensflare35.com website in this post!
by Dave Warner on July 13, 2009
When you start a site like this, you are learning things every single day about it. What should change, what should be added to make it better for users, etc. One of the things that I realized the other day, was that I am giving my Facebook followers a more day-by-day accounting of what is going on. However, that is NOT available to readers of the LensFlare35 site and should be. So, I’m going to add in a lot of the daily happenings and things that are coming up in this section.
So to catch up a bit, last week was BUSY to say the least. I had FOUR interviews including Illah Nourbakhsh about the GigaPan (which posted on Tuesday July 7th), then Al & Fabs Forns for their podcast on July 21st, George Lepp for HIS podcast that will air on July 28th, and finally Mike Wong with OnOne Software for his Quick Hit podcast that will air on July 23rd.
Mike had a GREAT idea and it is something that I’ll be working on for the next few days to set up. Can anyone say contest? How about a copy of the Plug-in Suite 4 software to the winner? This is a $1,300 dollar expense if everything is purchased separately and $500 if you buy the suite. These guys are fantastic, and very supportive of the community out there. Besides, if EVERYBODY in the company has Canon equipment except for three folks – they can’t be anything BUT great, right?
Stay tuned for details…
To celebrate and honor the beautiful splendor of America, the Smithsonian Channel and “Aerial America,” one of the most expansive TV projects about our nation, is hosting a national photo competition on Flickr. We want to encourage everyone to submit their best photos of anywhere in America, including their own hometowns!
