If someone is indisposed it's a bit more serious than dipping out! Each case on its merits though.

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That remains contradictory. I do not see why a July 2012 entry taken on the 1st July 2012 need be disallowed, even if taken before the comp was announced, it complies with the first part of rule 1 and it's hardly dipping back 40 years in the back catalogue! However, if that is generally considered unacceptable then the first part of rule 1 needs deleting.

John

Perhaps the overseer for that month could post frequent bumps to remind everyone that the competition is running and it is now in the gallery. I'm sure after a month you'd get used to its new location and look there as a matter of course, if just to look at what others had entered.

The gallery also allows one to view the images at a larger size and the image hosting is done on the site helping those who do not have other hosting facilities.

John

Fine as it goes, however suggest addition to 9. Should the latest winner be unavailable then the runner-up will undertake selecting the next theme and judging its winning entries instead.

This should help make it clearer that there is a need to select three winning entries just in case the winning entrant is indisposed.

Also, just to be clear (and call me pedantic if you wish:wink if a suitable image is taken by chance on the first of the month, and the competition is set on the second, is that image eligible for entry? As written above it reads that it is.

John

More like 2 trillion.

John

Isn't it always?!

John

The option was given of just photographing something with an interesting texture and entering that, so no need to feel left out.

John

Maybe extra brownie points for entries wholly the work of the entrant?!

Just wouldn't want to see an entry disallowed because it wasn't wholly the work of the photographer or Pentaxed.

John

How about making the competition monthly then (so as to allow more time) but let users to upload up to two, three or even four images. Nothing is more frustrating than entering something and going out the next day to find a better entry to take!

Loading to the gallery makes it accessible to more users and gives the opportunity to view the photographs larger than the 800 pixels wide in the forum pages; just sorting out that requirement alone must put some people off!

John

One slight concern I have with this is that the texture photographs demonstrated and downloaded are not necessarily taken by the photographer producing the combined image but by someone else, and in all probability not with a Pentax camera.
While some of these texture images have been donated to the public domain, not all have been and some will therefore be subject to copyright.
While using ready made textures is great for practising and experimenting, how does this fare for producing a competition entry and having non Pentax images featured?

John

Have you transferred the files to your hard drive and loading them from there, or are they stored on a CD or DVD, or are you reading them directly from the memory card?
I ask because anything written to a CD/DVD might become write protected and transfers off a memory card might just be slow.

Another quick thought, can you view the files OK in Windows explorer?

John