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The V-Day contest is now closed! We are excited as Care Givers to get our votes in so you will be able to vote for the finalists asap! ^_^
Thanks to all that have participated, and don't forget, keep checking in for our finalists that will be posted soon!
Good Luck Everyone! Your Care Giving Team!
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Month of Romance, Valentine's Day contest is HERE!
Our past 2006 Holiday Contest was such a huge success thanks to all of you, that we now have a contest for February in the works. It's all about LOVE....Valentines....and that little guy with the bow and arrows..Cupid! So get in the mood for romance, some of you viewed our teaser, it's now time for the contest to begin!
The contest officially starts NOW, on the evening of Thursday, January 25, 2007. The thread will be locked for this contest on February 10, 2007 (12:01 A.M. EST), and contest submission thread will be CLOSED. (Please note instructions below for entering an image into this contest thread and don't forget to tag image in competition.)The finalists of this contest, for ALL categories, will be disclosed after the finalists have been chosen by the Care Giving team, and will then be posted in our finalists threads for voting by ALL members, including finalists. Voting will be open to all members between the dates of February 12 th - 17th (12:01 A.M. EST), ONE vote per category for each member (you may vote in as many categories as you like, one or all, but, one vote per category.). The finalist voting thread(s) will then be locked and counted by our Care Givers to be revealed to you ASAP but, no later than February 20, 2007.
And unlike our last contest, ALL categories will be voted by you as members.
Members will be voting in for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and honorable mentions for every category. We as Care Givers, will also be choosing our special choices for each category. Winners will be notified on their images and a Winners thread will be posted for all to see with winning images for every category.
~Submitted images do not have to contain an invite to IbyB to enter this contest.
~Please be sure you own the registered copyrights to the images you use in the contest.
~NO NUDITY, and no offensive images! This is a family group!~
--Please be sure that you do not post offensive, nor obscene links under the image you post, or on the page of your images. Remember, this is a family group, we must protect all of our members.
How to participate in the V-Day competition:
1. Please post image(s) in this thread only, in small format.
Note instructions on how to do this below.
2. Make sure you categorize the image and label it above the image you post in small in this thread.
If you are unsure of what category you should consider your image, please contact one of our Care Givers via email or post in our questions thread with a link or small image of your photo in question, and ask us where we feel it should be incorporated into this competition.
POST questions about contest or category inquiries HERE.
3. Tag your image per category. One category per image, but, members have the right to participate with up to 3 separate images in up to 3 separate categories.
Now please remember, each image may only participate in only ONE category.~Thank you.
These are the categories below with short descriptions. This time we would like you as a participant to categorize and tag your own images. Each member has the right to participate in more than one category. One category per image, but, members have the right to participate with up 3 separate images in up to 3 categories. Go over this limit, you will be disqualified. If you fail to tag your images, those images will not be honored in this contest.
What does the TAG stand for?
-- IbyB ~Impressed by your Beauty
--VD ~Valentine's Day
--07 ~(zero seven- year 2007)
--1 ~Category number
What does a LABEL stand for?
---C ~Category
---1 ~Number of Category
---Romantic Getaway ~Category name
Romantic Getaway (scenic images, vacations)
Please LABEL: C1-Romantic Getaway
Please TAG: IbyBVD-07-1
Love by Flowers (Floral shots, macro included)
Please LABEL: C2-Love by Flowers
Please TAG: IbyBVD-07-2
Passion of Chocolate and Sweet Secrets (All candy, macro included)
Please LABEL: C3-Passion of Chocolate and Sweet Secrets
Please TAG: IbyBVD-07-3
Love & Candlelight (candles, fire, lights, candlelight dining, macro included)
Please LABEL: C4-Love & Candlelight
Please TAG: IbyBVD-07-4
Closing in on Love (Close-ups, Macro, if you have a macro that fits the other categories but, you prefer to put it in this one, this is fine, but, remember, one category per image.)
Please LABEL: C5-Closing in on Love
Please TAG: IbyBVD-07-5
Secret Admirer (message via image or love letter, hand held messages, portrait, silhouette, or still life)
Please LABEL: C6-Secret Admirer
Please TAG: IbyBVD-07-6
Love is in the Air for Animals (animal subject, pets, portraits, etc.)
Please LABEL: C7-Love is in the Air for Animals
Please TAG: IbyBVD-07-7
Love is in the Air (human subject--humans combined with pets in portraits are also welcome, NO NUDITY nor obscene images, please READ our group rules.)
Please LABEL: C8-Love is in the Air
Please TAG: IbyBVD-07-8
Animal Couples (pets, zoo, wild, human with pet are also accepted in this category.)
Please LABEL: C9-Animal Couples
Please TAG: IbyBVD-07-9
Human Couples (couple portraits, creative couples, weddings, NO NUDITY nor obscene images, please READ our group rules.)
Please LABEL: C10-Human Couples
Please TAG: IbyBVD-07-10
Shades of Love (Black and White images)
Please LABEL: C11-Shades of Love
Please TAG: IbyBVD-07-11
I Heart You (All hearts, macro hearts, etc.)
Please LABEL: C12-I Heart You
Please TAG: IbyBVD-07-12
Cupid Leaves His Mark (Macros welcome also for the following: Angels, cupids, wings, statures, figures, arrows; original art with Cupid as subject, & anything that makes you think of Cupid accepted.)
Please LABEL: C13-Cupid Leaves His Mark
Please TAG: IbyBVD-07-13
Be my Valentine (V-day cards category, make a Valentine card/poem by photoshop/paintshop, handmade, scanned, whatever creativity this brings to mind. It does not have to officially be a 'Be my Valentine,' Happy Valentine's and other V-Day type card messages/poems will also be accepted.)
Please LABEL: C14-Be my Valentine
Please TAG: IbyBVD-07-14
V-Day Celebrated by the Care Givers (This category is ONLY for Care Givers & their immediate family members, there will be NO finalists for this category, these images will be voted only by the members of IbyB. One entry only per Care Giver/immediate family member.)
Please LABEL: C15-V-Day Celebrated by the Care Givers (optional for Care Givers to post in this thread)
Please TAG: IbyBVD-07-15
To encourage participation for those that may have an image you feel should enter this contest, please place the code for this thread link under their image.
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<b>You need to enter this contest, </b><a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/impressed_by_your_beauty/discuss/72157594500091866/">IbyB V-Day CONTEST!
</a>
----Example--below this line----
You need to enter this contest, IbyB V-Day CONTEST!
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Instructions on how to post a photo to our contest thread
1. Go to the photo you wish to enter.
2. You will notice on the upper margin of your photo 'ALL SIZES,' you must click on this.
3. Now you will see across the upper margin of your photo 'Available Sizes,' please click on SMALL.
4. You will now notice a box that says above it, (1. Copy and paste this HTML into your web page:) This is what you must copy paste to the comment under this thread ( you must make sure you copy + paste the WHOLE code in that box to enter), now, this is your photo entry to our V-Day contest.
Have fun everyone, and hope many of you participate, we had over 200 participants in our last Holiday contest and hope we have made suitable improvements to make this a fair, easy, and fun competition for all of you! ~Good LUCK and have fun! From your IbyB Care Giving Team!
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We are pleased to announce, Our TWO NEW 2nd SNIFFERS! From our 1st quarterly 2nd Sniff Contest!
~Code to 2ndSniffer Horse~
~Code to 2nd Sniffer Goose~
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Originally posted at 4:30PM, 25 January 2007 PDT
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