Pre-contest Contest! (POTM Themes)

Here's your chance to help decide what themes we'll have for our Photo-of-the-Month contest for the next few months. All four of these choices will be our themes for the next four months....you just get to choose the order in which they will appear.

This poll will run until the current contests are finished and we're ready for new contest submissions...so, for about a week.

Here's the choices:

Photoshop Fun! -- Images edited in fun or crazy ways by Photoshop, or whatever image editing tools you like to use.

Pets -- Destined to be a classic favorite theme! This time will be any non-herp pets you currently own, or have owned in the past.

Wildlife -- Pictures you have taken of animals in the wild.

Rodent Mania -- Pictures of your rats, mice, gerbils, and other cutie, toothie critters that fall under the Rodent label.

Have fun! (And if you have ideas for other themes, feel free to suggest 'em...we'll consider them for future contests.)

come on people, lets do somthing else, lots of people have already done ther other pets in the last one, lets do somthing new like wildlife:D

Rodent Mania, where did that idea come from? I'm for it all the way.

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Originally Posted by muddoc

Rodent Mania, where did that idea come from? I'm for it all the way.

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I dunno.....I heard some weird guy thought it up. :P

I like them all!!! And have no preference on order....




Because I'll probably enter them all anyway! lol :oops:

I love little furry baby things ;)

photoshop.... :D

What about POTM Themes of Field Herps and Funny Roadway Signs?

A possible POTM theme could be Flowers. I like flowers and photographing them, they tend to hold still easier, unless it's windy or there's a breeze, then well they don't hold still so easily.

Photoshop I would have a chance at, so Go Photoshop! :rockon:

Not to ruin anyone's idea or anything, but I feel by having a photoshop one is leaving some people out of the contest. I don't have photoshop and would like to still join the contest. I dunno I guess I feel everyone should have an equal chance at entering the contest. But if you do have a photoshop one I won't complain anymore. Cause once I get photoshop, I'll be suggesting a photoshop theme then too. Just thought I'd give my two cents.

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Originally Posted by Reptilian

Not to ruin anyone's idea or anything, but I feel by having a photoshop one is leaving some people out of the contest. I don't have photoshop and would like to still join the contest. I dunno I guess I feel everyone should have an equal chance at entering the contest. But if you do have a photoshop one I won't complain anymore. Cause once I get photoshop, I'll be suggesting a photoshop theme then too. Just thought I'd give my two cents.

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It doesn't have to be the brand "Photoshop"....any editing program anyone wants to use is fine. It's just that "photoshop" has become the common verb for editing images to alter their original appearance.

And there's always gonna be someone left out of any of the contests. Not everyone has a ball python...or not everyone has other herps besides balls....not everyone had a visible morph to participate in May's POTM contest.

That's one reason why we've gone with a Photo of the Month contest, so we can rotate themes on a monthly basis and give as many people as possible a chance to get in on the fun. But heck...not everyone has a digi camera and the ability to upload digital images. :P

I would Love a Photoshop contest! My fingers are itchin' thinking about it.

me too me too....Photoshop is FUN!

Would the Wildlife category include zoo animals?

I like the idea of wildlife, but I think I voted for pets as I have enough of them and I could always use another excuse to take pictures of them. Maybe in another month or two we could consider doing pictures of pets IN nature!

:)

Judy is this a poll that will determine the topic for the next 4 months? which ever one is voted first place is the contest next month, second place comes the month after, 3rd the month after that, etc....?

How about a theme like "Herp Art" where people can submit their drawings, paintings, etc of Herps...

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Originally Posted by nathanledet

Judy is this a poll that will determine the topic for the next 4 months? which ever one is voted first place is the contest next month, second place comes the month after, 3rd the month after that, etc....?

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Precisely. :D There's no "loser" in this poll. ;)

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Originally Posted by Schlyne

Would the Wildlife category include zoo animals?

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No...just shots of animals taken in their natural environment. It doesn't necessarily have to be a "wild" environment....birds in your own yard would be fine, for instance.

I think we'll have a future zoo theme though....'cause I know we have some amazing zoo shots already. :D

A running tab of possible ideas for the next "set" of themes...


Field herps
Funny signs
Flowers
Herp Art