***Please read the rules carefully as they have been updated. Dates updated***

Subject chosen by Projekt ITR:

Urban

What do you see when you walk down the street? The concrete buildings, the houses, or the soon to be of a vacant lot are the different scenes we are accustom to. But, what is hidden in this urban jungle of ours? What is there besides the brick and mortar. Go take a walk and show us your city. Don't show us the city we see on post cards, show us the city that you see.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1279/638371667_ad5032df3c.jpg?v=0

Rules as follows:

1) Contest is open to all members of CRSX.

2) By submitting your photo, you understand that it will be posted on the web and others that are not members of CRSX will see your work and could be downloaded by anyone. Your work will not be sold to anyone other than by you. If someone is interested in purchasing your photo we will direct that person to you and you can work it out.

3) Only one entry is allowed per participant.

4) Once the entry has been submitted no resubmits will be allowed.

5) MINOR post processing allowed. Minor means cropping, sharppening, slight color tweaks, and level adjustments. No merging of several photos or chops. Make sure to resize to meet size requirment. (no borders and no watermarks)

6) Submission format. All entries must be able to meet the 800x600 posting requirement. Please don't submit other sizes like 640x480. We want all photos the same size to be as fair as possible.

Email all entries to: crsxphoto@yahoo.com

Subject line should be: CRSX Contest - Month - Contest Title
Body should include the following:
- CRSX username
- Title of your photo
File naming convention: title_of_my_photo.jpg

Example:
Subject: CRSX Contest - January - Things at night
Body:
Danger Mouse
A Scary Ghost
Attachment: a_scary_ghost.jpg

7. Any submissions that do not follow the guidelines will not be posted.

8. Topic will be posted on the 4st of the month.

9. Submissions will be from 4st until the 18th of the month. No exceptions for late submissions.

10. All submissions must be taken during the time of the current contest.

11. Voting will be open from the 19th until the 25st.

12. All submissions will be posted anonymously.

13. Winner will be posted on the 26nd.

Prizes:
1. Winner of the contest will get to choose the next topic.

2. Winner will receive a $5 gift card to Starbucks. In order to receive the gift card you must be willing to provide me your mailing address so I can mail it to you. If you don't provide the address then you don't get the card.

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Here's a link to the Flickr page to see past entries.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7941580@N03/

I like it! Have about 6 ideas so far, none of them seem to be able to beat whatever Jeff is stirring up though :thumbsdow

yeah. seriously. good idea. bar set high. haha

I like it! Have about 6 ideas so far, none of them seem to be able to beat whatever Jeff is stirring up though :thumbsdow

The nearest urban space is 50 minutes from me. With tons of assignments about to pop up in my classes, consider me out. :)

^ damn, lol I'm not going to be able to do it either I think because the closest to me now I'm in college, is about 100 miles.

Well then.... This will be interesting ;)

^ damn, lol I'm not going to be able to do it either I think because the closest to me now I'm in college, is about 100 miles.

Which college you go to? I see it says you're in Houston.

Either way. You guys can take pictures of even just the small areas around where your college is located. Urban doesn't have to be a huge city.

^ :iamwiths:

btw, nice paragraph DM. :thumbsup:

If you live in a small town (like me) this just makes it more of a challenge.
I'm sure everyone knows where the "inner city" part of your town is located.
I'm gonna look for some train yard or housing project or old closed factory to see if there's a shot to be had.

^ :iamwiths:

btw, nice paragraph DM. :thumbsup:

Thanks, I tried as best I could. I suck at writing as seen apparent when looking at my grades for essays in english class.

well you did good. LOL, specially the last sentence.

Which college you go to? I see it says you're in Houston.

Either way. You guys can take pictures of even just the small areas around where your college is located. Urban doesn't have to be a huge city.

Yeah i'll still be looking around, but i go to A&M in College Station so yeah.

Yeah i'll still be looking around, but i go to A&M in College Station so yeah.

Sorry to hear... :p

I'm looking at the topic, then I'm thinking where I live. Vermont. Thats about as oposite as you can get. But if the topic is urban, urban is what your gonna get. Two hours of driving or not.

I'm definately in.

Ibkillerblackbirddrivestoalbany

Im in. I like this idea.

Ibkillerblackbirddrivestoalbany

:rotfl:

I dont know if I want to get shot though...

im waiting on something...but i have mine ready to go

im on this one

submitted

Got mine last Friday night, not sure if I want to use it or not. It was the first time I've seen a cop wearing a bullet proof vest though. I had to stop for a red light and my friend tells me "Don't look to your left"...I'm like "why???".

Note to self: Do not drive truck in ghetto at 2AM.

^ doesnt stop lights seem longer than usual? LOL

Got mine last Friday night, not sure if I want to use it or not. It was the first time I've seen a cop wearing a bullet proof vest though. I had to stop for a red light and my friend tells me "Don't look to your left"...I'm like "why???".

Note to self: Do not drive truck in ghetto at 2AM.The heck did you see when you looked though? :thumbsup:

The heck did you see when you looked though? :thumbsup:

I dont wanna talk about it.

I dont wanna talk about it.
Word on the street is you saw a grown man satisfying a camel....:shakehead



:weeeeeeeeee: :weeeeeeeeee:
Gonna try and shoot on Wed.

LoL....the other day, I saw something that was the funniest ish in the world. I was working in the office and I look out the window to the hotel across the street. I see this dude standing looking out the window into the street butt naked jerking off....LoL. What was classic was that just the floor below, there was this old lady looking out the window while drinking coffee with no clue what was going on just above her. Now that's urban :thumbsup:

^ were you wacking it to the guy jacking off?

I went around town this evening looking for potential subjects for this contest. I got scared. I wasn't about to roll my windows down, much less get out of my car with my gear. I may not be able to enter this contest :noes:

i think i got a good one if i can rem to bring my cam on the way to class and if it stops raining.

i got a question though. how do you resize it to fit the criteria of the rules?

i use photoshop and just change the image size.

or you can upload it to photobucket which automatically resizes it

true but i'd rather use a program that's meant for doing such tasks as resizing than a website that's meant for hosting.

you can play with the resolution while resizing in pshop, but not w/photobucket.

I went around town this evening looking for potential subjects for this contest. I got scared. I wasn't about to roll my windows down, much less get out of my car with my gear. I may not be able to enter this contest :noes:

Told 'ya.

You walk into this contest all balls and confidence, then when you get to the location you want to shoot you never know what you are going to see or encounter. As a hint; I never got out of my truck when I shot mine, just rolled the window down, shot, and left. I wasnt able to get what I wanted to for a shot because if anyone saw me taking a photo from where I wanted to go they may of thought I was a cop...not always a good thing.

Told 'ya.

You walk into this contest all balls and confidence, then when you get to the location you want to shoot you never know what you are going to see or encounter. As a hint; I never got out of my truck when I shot mine, just rolled the window down, shot, and left. I wasnt able to get what I wanted to for a shot because if anyone saw me taking a photo from where I wanted to go they may of thought I was a cop...not always a good thing.

I passed 4-5 cop cars on my little ride around Compton and I bet every one of them thought I was there looking for drugs or a prostitute. I did think about slapping on my 80-200 and TC for a little spy from a distance action, but I was afraid somebody would sneak up behind me and slash my tires.

i dont have those types of areas around me, so i might be a bit safer.

we'll see. im thinking of taking the picture regularly for the contest but also trying out HDR photography.

i dunno. since i read a tutorial on how to do it, i wanna see what i can produce.

dayam. Im not goin anywhere near where i can potenially get mugged/shot at.

Jesus Christ you guys are sissy :laughing: I live in Detroit and have no problem going anywhere in the city. The more dangerous the better that way their is less people with the same subject matter as me:p

check my flickr for proof

I passed 4-5 cop cars on my little ride around Compton and I bet every one of them thought I was there looking for drugs or a prostitute. I did think about slapping on my 80-200 and TC for a little spy from a distance action, but I was afraid somebody would sneak up behind me and slash my tires.

Compton??!! You have bigger balls than I do...

Not really Compton, but our equivalent. Rough looking ghetto part of town with lots of people hanging out on front stoops just chillin.

submitted

So....im guessing pictures will be up soon?

jumping the gun? lol

9. Submissions will be from 4st until the 18th of the month. No exceptions for late submissions.

means tonight @ midnight, right? or tomorrow night?

I had the 15th in the back of my head too, which is why I submitted on Friday.
Might've found a better subject if I realized I had 3 more days to look around, but not likely.

Normally I try to keep it consistent with on the dates from 1st-15th, however because of the holiday weekend I didn't have time to post up the contest so it got pushed back a few days.

The submission deadline will be 11:59pm central time on the 18th. Then the morning of the 19th I'll put up the pictures and poll.

Next month we should be back on schedule for the 1st-15th. The next deviation off the normal dates will probably be in January because of New Years. The contest will probably go up the 2nd or 3rd and then the normal amount of shooting days.

submitted.. :D

so i've scoured my area trying to find something suitable to submit and have come up with bubkis.

i guess im sitting out this round. less pressure for me :)

im ready to see everyones shots.

im ready to see everyones shots.

They'll be up tomorrow morning. Today is the last day for submissions.

im ready to see everyones shots.

Mine wasn't quite what I wanted but in the best interest of my well being its what I ended up with. I am curious to see what everyone else came up with too.

i know i wont win but it was fun/challenging.

damn i thought tomorrow was the deadline, I had the day off too.. =(

lol this thread made me want to register and say, 'rofl'.