Spectacular Animals (Invite Only) Vote for June's Best Photo

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Vote for the Photo of the Month, June 2009	Tut99 (Roger)	11	3 hours ago
Have a shot that you would like invited to the group? Post it here.	Tut99 (Roger)	10	6 hours ago
Photo of the Day - July 2009	Tut99 (Roger)	5	14 hours ago
Enter The Icon of the Week Contest	Tut99 (Roger)	73	35 hours ago
Icon of the Week Contest Hall of Fame	Tut99 (Roger)	159	36 hours ago
Our 7000 member!	Tut99 (Roger)	3	3 days ago

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About Spectacular Animals (Invite Only) Vote for June's Best Photo

The Photo of the Day for July 5, 2009 is from crowley213




You can see past selections in the Photo of the Day - July 2009 thread.



The Icon of the Week is from sparky2000



You can see past selections in the Group Icon Contest Hall of Fame thread.



The winners of the Photo of the Month May 2009 contest are:

First place goes to Here comes LUNCH! by Heather Green Photography




Second place goes to Snack time by Rivertay




Third place goes to elephant by Angel Eyes Photography



You can see past selections for 2009 in the Group Photo of the Year 2009 Entries thread.



The 2008 Photo of the Year Winners are:

The winning photosfor the Photo of the Year contest are:

First place goes to Snow bunting nightmare - Le cauchemar du bruant des neiges by digital direct multimedia




Second place goes to Flowerpower by Michael Poliza




Second place goes to 黑麻唱詩班 A choir! by John&Fish





Our goal: Gathering together some of the most spectacular animal photos displayed on Flickr and in the process making the photographers feel 'special' seeing that their work is admired enough for a special invitation!



This is a group where photos are posted by invitation only, so please only post a photo to the group if it has been invited.

We use Group Moderation. When you add a photo to the group, it goes into a queue until a moderator accepts or denies it. Uninvited photos will be denied from the pool without notice. Repeat offenders may be banned from the group. If your photo is denied for another reason, you should receive an email from an admin.



Photos must meet the following requirements to be eligible for this group:

1) An animal must be the main subject of the photo and must be alive. It may be eating a dead animal. It must be apparent that it is a photo of an animal.
2) The quality of the photo must be excellent. Generally, the image should be in focus, sharp, and have an interesting composition and good pose, Even if an animal is endangered or unique, the image must still be of good quality and the animal the main focus. We do not accept silhouettes.
3) The photo must be of a non-domesticated animal.
4) The photo cannot be a photo or scan of a painting, sculpture, etc. It must be a photo that you have taken. Anyone posting someone else's photo to the group will be banned from the group.
5) Since this is a public group, please avoid extreme violence, human nudity, etc.
6) Photos may be rejected if they are in bad taste, are inappropriate for the group, or are not of high enough quality.



If three or more co-administrators deem a photo to be less than world class, it will be denied entrance in the pool. If you have had a photo declined, please accept the fact that not all photos nominated will receive admittance into the pool.



A few general rules:

1. Uninvited images will not be accepted. Repeat offenders will be banned from the group.

2. Do not block an Admin; this will result in being banned from the group.

3. Once an invited image has been accepted to the pool, don't delete it to then try and add it again so it keeps appearing on the first page. The image will be removed and the member banned at the discretion of the administrators



To join Spectacular Animals:

1) Click on the "Join this group?" link above. This will open an email to send to the administrators of the group.
2) In your message to the administrators, please include a link to an invited photo.
3) You will receive an email saying that you are now a member of the group.



To post a photo:

1) You need to be a member of the group to post a photo. See the previous item on how to join.
2) Post only photos that have been invited to this group.
3) Please add the tag SpecAnimal to your photo.
4) Please comment on at least two (2) photos that are already in this group.



Inviting other people's photos to the group:

1) Please invite other people's outstanding animal photos to the group by copying and pasting the following to their comments section:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I really like your animal photo!
You are invited to post this photo to <b>Spectacular Animals, invite only</b>
www.flickr.com/groups/spectacular_animals/
Please add the tag <b>SpecAnimal</b> to your photo
<i>Please include a link to the photo when applying for group membership.</i>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

2) Add a Fave to the photo.



When you comment on a photo in Spectacular Animals.

When you add a comment to someone else's photo, please copy this to the comment box:

<i>Seen in <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/spectacular_animals/">Spectacular
Animals</a></i>.



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Tut99 (Roger)