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Photo-Contest Winner! Plus—This Month’s Theme
Published Wednesday, October 01, 2008
More than 8,000 votes were cast in September's transportation-themed photo contest. Congratulations to Tim Kelley, whose photograph “Rosslyn Metro” won with 50 percent of the vote! We loved the colors and lighting. Tim’s photograph will appear in our November issue, on sale October 23, so be sure to pick up a copy. Check out all the past winners here in our winners' gallery. Think your photograph has what it takes to win? Try entering this month’s contest. Our theme is light—interpret it however you’d like!
Here’s how the contest works: You submit photographs, and our panel of judges selects the best to run on our Web site. Then you, the reader, vote for your favorite. The winner be featured in the December issue of The Wshingtonian.
Submit as many photos as you’d like to photocontest@washingtonian.com. Please attach only one photo per e-mail, and include the photographer’s name, e-mail address, phone number, and place of residence along with a sentence or two about where the photograph was taken. Photos should be 300 dpi and at least four by six inches. The deadline for submissions is noon on Tuesday, October 21. Finalists will be contacted when the reader voting goes live.
Oh, and one more reminder: All photos must be taken in the Washington area—including the Maryland and Virginia suburbs—and the photographer must be local.
Good luck!
Our policy on photo rights: The photographer retains the copyright. However, because the photographer has submitted his or her photo to the contest, the magazine has the right to print the winning photograph in the current issue of the magazine and online, as well as in any future issues as long as usage is related to the photo contest. The magazine also has the right to use the finalists online in relation to the photo contest.
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RE:"Guaranteed these comments are not from photographers. An image like the above is very difficult to capture without blowing out the light above or losing the shadows down below. I challenge anyone to go to Rosslyn and try to make such a photo. Well done, Mr. Kelly.
Posted by: Marc Cohn, Oct 06, 2008 10:24:29 AM"
Marc.
With HDR (High Dynamic Range) Processing, anyone can reproduce the dynamic range seen by the eye (but impossible to convey with one image alone) Indeed,Photomatix www.hdrsoft.com/ or Adobe CS3 (Photoshop) have processes Millions of images this way. Well done, Messrs Kelly & Cohn ;)
Since there are no rules in this contest, anything is possible.
Posted by: Mel Darwin, Oct 10, 2008 08:35:15 AM
Guaranteed these comments are not from photographers. An image like the above is very difficult to capture without blowing out the light above or losing the shadows down below. I challenge anyone to go to Rosslyn and try to make such a photo. Well done, Mr. Kelly.
Posted by: Marc Cohn, Oct 06, 2008 10:24:29 AM
Congrats to Tim Kelly! An awesome picture. I notice a lot of cynical voices chiming in on the contest rules. I sympathize- but hey, this is Washington(ian), where there are no rules! I’m confident the contest administrators want to keep the great pictures coming and will therefore reform the contest to truly reflect democratic process not yet another ’Bushified’ election ;)
Posted by: Mel Darwin, Oct 02, 2008 02:16:22 PM
Boring picture, boring scenery. Same effect as taking a picture of a metro bus. Great job.
Posted by: *Snore*, Oct 02, 2008 09:24:21 AM
seeeeeeeeeeeeriously.
Posted by: anon, Oct 02, 2008 06:54:35 AM
can’t you just be happy that there are contests like this?
Posted by: why are people so mean?, Oct 01, 2008 09:30:57 PM
Very tired photo.
Posted by: zzzzzzzzz...., Oct 01, 2008 03:32:35 PM
.."More than 8,000 votes were cast."
How many times can one clear their cookies and revote? Stay tuned till next month.
This contest is a fraud.
Posted by: Phony contestants, Oct 01, 2008 12:45:37 PM
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