Expat Focus monthly photo competition - Rules & Help

Jamie · Expat Focus Administrator Joined: Aug 06, 2000 Posts: 1649

Welcome to the Expat Focus monthly photo competition!

Every month we choose a new topic and invite our membership to post their entries in this forum (not a member yet? Register here for free). After the deadline each month the photos will be judged by the Expat Focus team and a winner selected. The winning member will receive a 20GBP Amazon book voucher (or equivalent if Amazon doesn't deliver to your country) together with a mention in the monthly newsletter. The winning entry will also be placed in the winner's gallery!

CLICK HERE FOR THE PHOTO COMPETITION FORUM TO VIEW THIS MONTH'S COMPETITION TOPIC AND ENTRIES!

How to enter?

Just follow these simple instructions:

1. Check the announcement in the competition forum for this month's topic - then create your masterpiece!

2. Upload your photo to the web - this can be on your own site or, if you need to, upload it to a free image sharing service such as the following:

photobucket.com
imageshack.us
tinypic.com

(If you would like to recommend another service, please contact us)

3. Create a new forum post in this forum as normal and click the "Image" button in the bottom left of the menu as indicated by the arrow in the screenshot below:

4. This will open a box where you can enter the URL (just another word for "website address" or "location") of your photo. If you used one of the free image hosting services mentioned above you should be able to copy and paste the image location link from there directly into this box. Note: if you have a variety of links to choose from try the one described as "Direct" first.

5. Once you have entered the image URL/location into this box click OK and then click preview to check your photo displays correctly. If it does, please add details below the photo to show when and where it was taken and using what type of camera and then just click Submit as you normally would with any forum post and your entry will be submitted!

What are the rules?

A full set of the competition rules can be found here but here is a quick summary of some of the most important:

1. All images submitted should be original and not associated with any copyright. By displaying your image at Expat Focus you accept that you are the owner of the image and that there are no copyright restrictions imposed on the image.

2. Participants may enter one image only per competition each month. Moderators and Expat Focus staff or their families are not permitted to enter this competition.

3. Obscene, shocking or unlawful images are strictly prohibited.

4. Expat Focus reserves the right to remove any image and all references to it at any time.

5. No modification or editing of images is permitted.