1st Annual Fall JHO Game Camera Pic Contest Rules

[spectr17]

1st Annual Fall JHO Game Camera Pic Contest Rules and Prizes

Contest Rules:

Please post only one pic per category. You can post the same pic in several diffferent categories. No editing or changing pic allowed after 4 hours from original post.

Please just post pics, we'll hold off for comments until after the contest.

Pic must be yours, your families or friend's. No ripping pics that you don't own or have copyright to.

Pics must be from home made or commercial game cams. No pics taking by regular cameras that are not part of a game cam.
You can retouch or edit your pics with photo editing software if you want to.

Please add location, date, time of pic and camera model and setup if you want to.

If you need help on how to post your pics here or how to resize your pics go here (http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16781)

Pics must be under 640 pixels wide so people don't have to scroll back and forth.

You can test posting your pics here. (http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/index.php?showforum=55) Please do not test posting pics here in the contest forum.

Contest will end November, 30th 2003. Voting for best pics will take place and prizes awarded then.

For categories we have:

Best whitetail deer
Best muley or blacktail deer
Best varmint/predator (fox, yote, cougar, mink, fisher, wolverine)
Best bear
Best Big Game (other than bear & deer) elk, moose, hog, antelope etc.
Funniest pic
Strangest pic
Best Close up
Best bird
Best fish or underwater pic
Best designed cam or most innovative game cam setup
Best IR pic
Best pic sequence (3 pics or less)
Best before and after pics
Best name for the 1st pic contest


For prizes we have:

1) Copy of ExpertGPS mapping software from http://www.expertgps.com
2) Hand drawn decal from LVE Hunting Decals, LLC. (http://www.lvecustomdesigns.com/)
3) Battery charger and 4 NiMH rechargable batterys from Digipower by g-hog
4) "Board of your choice" from PixController (http://www.pixcontroller.com/) (Haymaker)
5) Waterproof clear Lexan case from JPinTX
6) Copy of Visual Media Explorer from PixController (http://www.pixcontroller.com/) (Haymaker)
7) Homebrew Feeder Timer from Deerguide & hunt4it44
8) Brunton HalfNote FM Radio from g-hog
9) Smart card reader and a 32 MB smart card from davidred1
10) $25.00 gift certificate to Bass Pro from upperEA
11) 2 pack of Polaroid 2400ff cameras from GPo
12) Drury Outdoors "Whitetail Madness 6" video from Patrick.
13) Arrow wraps from Iowawhitetail.com (http://www.iowawhitetail.com/)
14) 5 vinyl graphics of state of choice with whitetail head from JOtto Graphics
15) Double & triple reed turkey call compliments of Action Archery.com (http://www.actionarchery.com/)

Good luck to all who enter. http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smiley-dancin-red.gif

[fpscabs]

How about a best fish catagory?

[spectr17]

Guess we forgot about our aqua game cam folks. http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smiley-hitting-self.gif

Best fish or underwater pic category coming up.

[Otto]

Jesse,
How about a best IR pic section. I&#39;ll also donate 5 vinyl graphics of state of choice with whitetail head from Jotto Graphics.

[spectr17]

Best IR pic section coming up. Thanks Otto.

[spectr17]

Whacked about 8 or 10 more pics from the contest for being too big. If your pic is gone it probably was over the 640 pixel width limit.

Please resize your pic and re-enter it into the contest. Info on how to resize your pics is here (http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16781)

We also have some people who missed the part about this being a game camera photo contest. Please DO NOT post pics here in the contest if they are not from a game camera.

[remington870]

Jesse,
Is there any chance of a sequence winner, best 3 pics of something happening? No, big deal if not.
Scott
(remington870)

[spectr17]

Sorry about that remington870, I forgot that category.

Best 3 pics or less sequence coming up.

[fpscabs]

Jesse
sorry about the stupidititititity http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smiley-bag-on-head.gif
Didn&#39;t see it was for GAME CAM pics.

Maybe a regular photo contest could be kewl. http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbs-up-ani.gif

[arlow]

Hi Jesse,

Did you decide not to do the before and after catagory?

Thanks arlow http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smiley-cool-shades-down.gif

[spectr17]

Forgot the before and after category Arlow. Coming Up.

[spectr17]

One more time for those who can&#39;t seem to figure this out.

Whacked about 8 or 10 more pics from the contest for being too big. If your pic is gone it probably was over the 640 pixel width limit.

Please resize your pic and re-enter it into the contest. Info on how to resize your pics is here (http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16781)

[GPo]

Hey Jesse,
I have a question regarding the " Best sequence " category.
I have some pics of the gradual antler growth of a buck from
early July to late August. Can I post 3 of those, or does it have to be
a sequence of pics from the same cam within a few minutes of each other ?

GPo

[spectr17]

That&#39;ll work GPo. Just a longer sequence right? http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smiley-wnk-yellow.gif

[GPo]

Yes. Its the same deer for sure.

Thanks
GPo

[GPo]

Donations, donation.
C&#39;mon guys.
I think everyone who has benifited from the site in merchandising, and, or simply with the information here should scrape up something for a prize donation.
Maybe a pelican, or seahorse case. An Owl, flash, anything.
We could award up to 3rd place in each category if the prizes were there.

GPo

[GPo]

Hi Jesse,
Maybe other members have asked this already ?
Any thought to holding off on closing the "before and after" category &#39;til late November. I know our Whitetail season closes here on Nov 30th and probably other areas do too. I also see there are very few entrants. I have been waiting for chance at a certain buck and our season opens here on Nov 1st.


Thanks

GPo

[StringShooter]

I can add a double & triple reed turkey call compliments of Action Archery.com (http://www.actionarchery.com) if your are still in need of prizes.

Good luck everyone!

[spectr17]

We can move the end date for all catagories if everyone wants. I really don&#39;t want to move just one catagory to a later date.

Nov 30th 2003 deadline for all pics to be in then???

[arlow]

Sounds good to me! Im still trying to get my pics crunched to an acceptable size. http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smiley-ugly-lol-bashing-sign.gif

[GPo]

Sounds good.
More time for more prizes to be donated. Ha.
Only problem is the advantage goes to those who haven&#39;t posted yet.
They have more time to wait out a great pic.

Any chance of altering the 4 day rule, to say Nov 15th
Members can change their posted pic for a better one &#39;til the 15th ?
Then all posts are locked in ?

GPo

[Tsmola]

sounds good to me too, cutting it close for me, I&#39;ve got pics of a couple good bucks at my uncles but won&#39;t be able to hunt them till the gun season starts in November. unless my uncle takes one of those bucks in bow season

[steve-o]

So what&#39;s the deal? Is today the last day of the contest?

[arlow]

Stevo,

The contest has been extended to the 30th of november. http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smiley-biggrin-aqua.gif

[steve-o]

Does it officially say that somewhere? I see that Jesse posed the question last week, but there&#39;s no definitive statement anywhere.

[firemanjoe15]

So the contest should be over then according to the original rules. When and how do we know who wins? Jesse decides? Vote?

[spectr17]

Contest ends Nov 30th

[wapiti]

How about a fawn/calf category?

[spectr17]

Get you pics in for the contest, it ends 11/30.

Also please doublecheck your entries. Some pics were deleted because they were too big. Some members have entered 2 pics in one category when only one is allowed. Don&#39;t make us have to choose which one to keep. Once the contest is over we can&#39;t change the pics or voting.

For voting we&#39;ll post each category and the entry name in a poll thread. You&#39;ll get one vote per category. Please don&#39;t try and pad the voting by registering under other names or recruiting friends to help add to your count, it will be real easy to see who is doing this and you will be disqualified.

Let&#39;s remember this is all for fun and don&#39;t take it so serious.

Once we have the winners we will post the names. To make it fair and impartial for the prizes we will take whatever category is at the top of the contest list when the contest closes and allow that winner 1st choice of the prizes. 2nd choice of the prizes will then go to the 2nd category on the list. So on and so on until all the winners have a prize. If you want to swap prizes if you end up with something you can&#39;t use we can arrange the swap.

[spectr17]

We can have an calf/fawn youngin category next year Wapiti, good idea.

We&#39;ll also have the contest end in Feb. so everyone has a chance to get the antler pics in before they fall off.

What does everyone think about 2 pic contests a year? One for spring turkey and summer pics and the Feb end date one for fall and winter pics.

[spectr17]

Voting is now open for pic contest. Thank you all who entered pics. http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smiley-faces-toast-beers.gif They are all winners and are a joy to look at. Voting is on the pic contest forum at

http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/index.php?showforum=232

Voting is open to all members of the forum. Please vote for one name for our game cam pic contest here. One vote only, if you vote more than once for each category you will be disqualified. If you recruit other people to pad your vote it will be easy to see and you will be out. Let&#39;s keep it fair.

If you click on the "View Results" before you vote you will void your vote for that category, so don&#39;t peek. Once you void your vote we can&#39;t change it back so you can vote in that category. http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smiley-far-sdie-guy-yellin.gif

Please hold all replies until the voting is over. We&#39;ll then open up the pic threads for comments. Just vote now.

We&#39;ll keep the voting open for a week and close it Sunday night, Dec 7, 2003.

You&#39;ll need to look at the corresponding thread with all the pics to make your choice.

It will help to have a piece of paper and pen to keep track of your voting. If you are on a slow dial up you can visit your local library where most have high speed access. Get on someway to vote if possible, we want everyone to get a vote here.

If I goofed on the name of the animal please let Tinhorn or me know and we can change it. I wasn&#39;t sure on some of the varmint pics, like the fishers or martins.

Since there was only one entry for the underwater category we won&#39;t need to vote on that. wildebeast is the winner in there.

Good luck to all that entered. http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smiley-dancin-red.gif

[remington870]

jesse,
are you going to open up the catergories so we can make some comments?
rem870
(scott)

[spectr17]

The pic contest threads are open now so you can post comments and congrats.