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Capture Your PUMPKIN Contest

Fri Oct 5, 2012, 12:21 AM

Capture your PUMPKIN!

Update: The contest deadline is fast approaching and it's HALLOWEEN! So get creative now and capture your pumpkins! Remember that your entry must be still life photography, therefore it cannot include any people!

Dates

Start Date: 5th October
End Date: 5th November

Theme

The aim of this contest is to promote, educate and understand Still Life Photography. So your captures must have a still life element to them i.e. arranged (they can't be pumpkins growing in a field) and it must include pumpkin in some way, shape or form. So you could carve a pumpkin, make a pumpkin soup, decorate a pumpkin, make pumpkin pie...and so on. The Overall Winners of 1st, 2nd and 3rd place are eligible to win in the sub-categories too.

Rules

1 entry per person

Must be still life photography WHICH EXCLUDES PEOPLE!

Must be your own work

Must be created on or after start date

Must link contest in the comments so we know you've read the rules!

Winner

1 year subscription
1,000 Points
Print to the value of $25
Fella Skull T-Shirt (subject to availability) [link]

2nd

1 year subscription
500 Points
Print to the value of $15
Fella Skull T-shirt (Subject to availability) [link]

3rd

6 month subscription
250 Points
Print to the value of $15

The Best "Captured" Pumpkin

Be as creative as you like with this one - note the key word 'captured'
3 month subscription
250 Points

The Most Creative Carving

We know that some of you can get really creative with your carvings, so why not go wild and see if you can nab the most creative carving title?
3 month subscription
250 Points

The Most Creative Dish (Recipes must be included and it MUST be made by you and not shop bought!)

Make some delicious (or disgusting) looking food with your pumpkin - whatever you do make sure it's creative!
3 month subscription
250 Points

Judges

=Xcalibur86 ~claremanson ^3wyl ^Kaz-D ^maytel and ~TouchedD

Submission

To submit your work enter it into the official folder Here
To browse existing entries click Here

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Halloween is creeping up on us and so we challenge you to capture those pesky pumpkins in any way, shape or form that you can provided that they're not growing in a field! So get creative, have a look at the sub-categories we will award prizes for and CAPTURE YOUR PUMPKINS!