Hi everyone! About the December Contest.

[Solly Mack]

My husband is having surgery on Tuesday and that comes with some recovery time, so I have a very busy schedule ahead of me. Which is why I'm letting you know the December Contest Theme now.

I'll be taking Blind Submissions beginning on December 10th. Prelims will run from 14th-17th, with the final running the 17th -20th. Winners announced shortly after. The goal is to finish up before Christmas.

You may submit your entry early. Just send it to me in DU-Mail.

Theme: In a Row

Persons, places, things (any noun) in a row.

B&W or Color.

Post processing limited to brightness/contrast/ lighting, color balance/ saturation,sharpness, blur effect, cropping/angle adjustment, etc. Just basic processing.


Don't forget! The Autumn Contest will also be running during December. So it will be a busy contest month.

Thanks! Looking forward to your entry!

Solly

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Thanks for letting us know!

And good luck to your husband on his surgery/recovery...

[Solly Mack]

2. Thank you, CaliforniaPeggy!

I hope all goes well too.

Looking forward to your entry!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I'll see about an entry...

I don't think I'll have time to take a new pic...

But I believe I have some that would work. I usually hesitate to enter, since the photographers here are so very good......way better than I am!

[Mira]

5. Peggy, dear Peggy

you would not do this to yourself! We need you and your photos.
There is a special stamp on yours every time.
Your golden little bird in the surf at the ocean for instance is one of my very favorites ever shown here in all the many years I've been hanging out.

I've learned a lot, and so have you. Onward and upward.

[Solly Mack]

6. What Mira said! Please enter!

I loved your bird. It was awesome.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Thanks to you both, Mira and Solly Mack!

Yes, the bird pic was a good one. A very lucky shot, if I may say so.

I'll look through my archives to see what I have that might be good for this contest...

[Mira]

4. I do not like to read about the surgery.

I will be thinking of you.
Please accept my offer of help with the contest, if needed.

I think the theme is PERFECT. It's been a while since we filled up a contest with entries, and I suspect this will do it. I sat down and went through Picasa and scrolled, and if your eyes are peeled to spot it repetitions are abundant in the photographs. A matter of pulling out the cropping tool, if necessary. It's not going to be difficult, and will be just right for a month with Christmas as well as the Autumn contest going on.

After 10 minutes or so of scrolling I have quite a few in a folder to look at seriously for an entry.
The difficulty will be what to pick.

[Solly Mack]

7. Thanks, Mira. Should I need help I will ask.

I'm trying to not focus on possible complications and hope things go well enough to work on the contest while making sure he's comfy at home. But if I need help I will definitely ask.

I hope we get 30 entries.

Looking forward to your entry!


Thanks, again!

[Mira]

36. Sneaking in a question about how your husband is doing? n/t

[Solly Mack]

37. He's doing well. He can drive himself now. So that's good for both of us.

He is bummed about getting older now. More aches and pains...sometimes more medical procedures.

Thanks for asking!

[Mira]

38. Thanks for the reply.

I'm glad things are looking up for you both. Getting older is no fun.
Gratitude for the good stuff helps.

[Celebration]

9. Nice theme!

I'm visualizing healing for your husband................

Congrats on your wonderful award winning photo.

[Solly Mack]

10. Thank you, Celebration!

We already know he'll be on a bland diet after so I'll be joining him for his jello and broth to keep him company. (blech)

[Blue_In_AK]

11. Good luck to your husband.

I'm a fan of patterns in photography, so I have a bunch of these. Just a matter of sorting them out - assuming I don't take something new.

[Solly Mack]

13. Thanks, Blue. All went well.

Can't wait to see what you come up with!

[Mira]

18. Solly, are you saying the surgery went well?

I surely hope so. I thought about you both and sent good vibes. White, and purple.

[Solly Mack]

19. Yes, Mira. It went well.

Thanks!

Sorry for the shorthand. I was making a quick stop earlier.

He's doing fine. Resting at home for the next week or so. He'll do a follow up in a week and we'll see how he's doing then. He's enjoying the sleep and the pampering.

I'm enjoying having him home more. Not sure how long that will last. lol

[Mira]

20. Very good! Thanks for the answer.

Happy Thanksgiving, then, in more ways than one.

[Solly Mack]

28. Thanks, Mira..and to you and yours!

Hope you had a great day.


We brought the flu home with us from the hospital. I have to laugh. The sick tending the sick.

[rdking647]

12. can i submit early?

ill be out of town starting dec 8th and will have no internet access

[Solly Mack]

14. Yes, you can submit early.

Hope your trip goes well!

[Solly Mack]

15. Everything went well. Thank you all!

I'll be checking in from time to time over the next several days. I don't want to miss the Autumn submissions. Got a photo I wanna use.

Thanks, again!

[Blue_In_AK]

16. Is that December 1 for the fall contest?

We had such a beautiful fall here, I have no idea what shot I'm going to use. I've actually been working on a fall gallery for SmugMug, but I keep getting distracted.

[Solly Mack]

17. I don't know when Autumn submissions will be. DyedintheWoolliberal is doing it.

I just knew I would be busy helping out my husband over the next week or so and couldn't run the December contest during the first part of the month. Hopefully DitwL will post about it soon. I just hope DitwL isn't angry with me for posting the December contest announcement. I honestly didn't think to check. I was so concerned about my husband and what I needed to do that I didn't think to ask DitwL when the Autumn contest would run.

I feel like an ass now.

[mnhtnbb]

22. Oh, Solly, it'll be ok.

Hope your hubby continues to improve.

It's such a crazy time of year anyway.

We missed fall here due to our trip to Europe. I've been going through my photos and have several
that are possibilities for the December contest. May have to skip fall.

[Solly Mack]

29. Thanks, mnhtnbb.

He's getting over his surgery but now we both have the flu. We figure we brought it home with us from the hospital. Lots of flu cases there during his brief stay. Oh, well. Life is good even through the sneezes.

[groundloop]

21. It's not fair !!!

I've got my photo picked out, got it cropped just right etc. etc..... Now I feel like it's going to be burning a hole in my monitor for a week and a half waiting to submit it.

[Solly Mack]

27. I'll take early submissions. People often have timeline problems and submit early.

I know my time is rather busy right now.

[mnhtnbb]

23. I've had some fun this morning setting up a photo of a row of

single rose buds--that were my centerpiece for Thanksgiving--
in the light coming through a window next to our fireplace, but decided to go with a humorous
shot taken at the Berlin Zoo for the December contest.

Hubby liked this photo of the roses--which I rotated 180 degrees-- and titled Rose Shadows.

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[Solly Mack]

25. I love that photo! Lots of nice elements in it.

You can submit early if you want.

[alfredo]

24. This should be a good contest.

I live in horse farm country, so finding rows shouldn't be too hard.

[Solly Mack]

26. I hope so. I'm really looking forward to what everyone comes up with.

[alfredo]

30. Much of the US will see breaks in the weather, that should help.

[Blue_In_AK]

31. Solly, did you get my submission okay?

Every time I check my "sent mail," it just shows the link, not the picture.

[Solly Mack]

32. Got it!

I replied to your PM as well.

[mnhtnbb]

34. I know! Mine, too. Seems that the DU mail has changed

with not showing the picture anymore.

[mnhtnbb]

33. Solly, I sent you a second DU mail

with a link to the final crop of the photo I want to submit.
Just wanted to be sure you got it and realized the difference
from the first one I sent.

[Solly Mack]

35. I got both and I'll be using the link in the second PM.

Thanks! Sorry about that!