About The Face of Innocence (p1/a1)
Quality pictures of children that celebrate innocence are eagerly accepted. Other Images that capture innocence are also considered. Creative post-processing is certainly allowed as long as it enhances and does not distract from innocence and from the image.
Quality Requirements
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Only quality images accepted. No snapshots. Images that have strong shadows from indoor flash use, or backgrounds that distract from the important image will not be considered even if the child or content is perfectly suitable. We are trying to set a higher standard as we aspire to be better photographers. Occasional exceptions have been considered when the content is exceptional, but only at the decision of the administrator. Please do NOT be offended if your shot is not accepted. It may just not be the best fit for this group. Try again, and we do appreciate your support of this group!
We are not looking for a cute shot of a child, but we are looking for an artistic or quality shot of an innocent person, place, or thing, and children seem to fit the bill most often. We are strict on requiring good lighting, decent composition, quality control of depth of field, and color, black and white, or sepia used in appropriate ways.
(We want pictures that have been taken by you so we discourage shots taken many years ago. We assume that the photographer is not the submitter when a shot is from 1902 for example...) However, language barriers being what they are, we receive so many of them that we do include some which promote the theme well.
Languages
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This page is available in Spanish if that is closer to your language. Find the Espanol button at the very bottom of this page and click there to temporarily have all flickr translated into that language. Thanks.
This is designed to be a world wide group so please feel free to join and include your shots and comments, even if you don't speak English or Spanish very well or at all. We feel your good intent and encouragement even if we do not speak the same languages. No need to apologize that you do not speak English. I am sorry I do not speak your language.
Contests
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Occasionally we have a theme contest. We invite each of you to enter your best shot that captures innocence and whatever that theme is. If you enter, we require that you also vote on the contest, as well. You may vote for any except your own. You will choose a first, second and third place photo and then points will be tallied to choose the winner. In the case of a tie or discrepancy, the admin will make all decisions which will be final.
You do not need to enter in the contest to vote, but the entries are excellent and we encourage all to take a look.
Special Awards
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Contest Winners will receive a special award for their winning images. However we have another special award each month as well.
It is the admin's choice award. It is given to those photos and images that best portray innocence with the highest standards of artistic and phtographic quality. Of course, this is the opinion of the admins, so it is highly subjective. And it is very difficult to decide when there are so many great photos in our group each month. If you didn't receive this award for a photo that you think should have, know that you may have been considered extensively. However, there are only a few awarded each season and there are many photos entered each month.
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Award and Invite Code
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For invites and comments, please post the following code:
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<b>Congratulations! This excellent image captures the Face of Innocence. </b>
Please consider posting this in:
<a href=http://flickr.com/groups/innocence/> <img src=http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4898605764_c432090ace_t.jpg>
The Face of Innocence (p1,i1,c1)</a>
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It will look like this:
Congratulations! This excellent image captures the Face of Innocence.
Please consider posting this in:
The Face of Innocence (p1,i1,c1)
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philosophy of the admin
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Again, please be patient with the administration. I do not desire to offend ANYONE and I am new to this. We are all learning together. My opinion is not always right, but it is my opinion and right now it is my group. Please help make this your group as well by commenting in discussions or adding posts. We are happy to have 4-5 moderators or co-admins who agree with the philosophy of this group. If you are interested, please contact the admin. As the group grows, there will be new admins, more contests, and perhaps different philosophies to facilitate dynamic group changes. Hopefully we will one day see 20,000 members.
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For the Month of February, the following were some of the best shots in the opinion of the admins. Of course different opinions vary and there were so many good shots we couldn't choose them all!
Feel free to click on the following images and comment on your favorites and leave them your encouragement. Maybe your photo will be here next month?
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there are a few others who did not yet respond to their invitation. These spots are for them. Check and see if you got the invite on any of your pictures.
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Of course, we couldn't pick all of the best, but these were among the best. I hope you liked them, too.
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Additional Information
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