National Geagraphic Photo Contest

miketaylor01

Not sure if anyone else has seen this yet but National Geographic is running a photo contest right now. The Celebrate Photography Contest ("Contest") begins August 23, 2004, at midnight (12:00 a.m.) Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) and ends November 5, 2004, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST). There is not topic for the contest. Just to enter your most amazing photograph. Some rpetty cool prizes too. Im not sure if my stuff is good enough to win a contest like this yet but what the heck. Why not try. You never know until you try. Here is the Link
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/celebrate/
Was thinking it would be cool to share the images we are going to enter there in a thread here. Would love to see what everyone else thinks are their most amazing photograph. BTW the contest has no limit to the number of entries you can make. Lets see those photographs. I will be posting what I think i will enter shortly.

wxwax

Good question, Mike. Dunno what I think would be my best shot.

miketaylor01

Sid,

Kinda goes along with what you posted on 1clickaways challenge thread. Most of the time it doesnt matter what other people think about your photographs, you gotta take the advice with a grain of salt and make that fit in with what you think. You never know, someone else might love the photo that you think is just ok. Thats the great thing about photography.

wxwax

miketaylor01 wrote:

Sid,

Kinda goes along with what you posted on 1clickaways challenge thread. Most of the time it doesnt matter what other people think about your photographs, you gotta take the advice with a grain of salt and make that fit in with what you think. You never know, someone else might love the photo that you think is just ok. Thats the great thing about photography.

True enough, Mike.

Andy

i'm in. thanks for the heads up, mike!
i entered my umbrella man

miketaylor01

Damn..
I love that pic that you entered andy. Looks like there could be some tough competition from just Dgrinners. I think I am going to enter the following two. Im not sure on titles or comments on either one yet though





Also, the rules of the contest kind of confused me. Ok, entering the pic in a format under 1M is easy, but then the rules also stated that the original unaltered camera image had to be entered. Did you see this on the rules page Andy? Maybe I just read it wrong and it really is as easy as just entering a 1M version.

Anyone else going to enter? I was hoping more people would be excited about this like I am. I know ever since I picked up my first National Geographic I wanted to be a National Geographic photographer. Anyways, a chance to do the next best thing, win a contest run by them. Cant wait to see what you all want to enter

miketaylor01

Anyone out there???
Im guessing by the lack of responses that noone feels they have anything worth entering in this contest besides Andy and I, and Sic also, hes just trying to figure out what to enter. Which I know is not true because I haev seen how talanted everyone here is. Even if you dont want to enter the contest I would love to see what everyone else feels to be their most amazing photographs. Hope some of you would like to see this as well.

ginger_55

miketaylor01 wrote:

Not sure if anyone else has seen this yet but National Geographic is running a photo contest right now. The Celebrate Photography Contest ("Contest") begins August 23, 2004, at midnight (12:00 a.m.) Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) and ends November 5, 2004, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST). There is not topic for the contest. Just to enter your most amazing photograph. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/celebrate/
Was thinking it would be cool to share the images we are going to enter there in a thread here. Would love to see what everyone else thinks are their most amazing photograph. BTW the contest has no limit to the number of entries you can make. Lets see those photographs. I will be posting what I think i will enter shortly.

I could never, by myself pick out a "favorite child, uh photo". I think it would be great if we had a thread on this.

ginger

FreeUps

Most amazing photo, thats a tough one mike. I will start putting some thought into it and I'll get back to ya.

miketaylor01

Glad to see some of you are starting to think about this and Ginger here is the thread to do it in, no need to start a new one...