RE: Your FEED-BACK on the NATURE PHOTO CONTEST is requested and would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks for running the contest; its a great idea. I think posting below in the comments is good. People can put their own post but they should link it in the comments also. If you just have a hashtag it will get clogged up with spam (just look at all the other comps who try and use hashtags). It also limits your ability to enter a photo you may have recently posted as you don't want to clog up your feed with double posts of the same shot.
Time Lapse Thursday is too confusing, time lapse to most people is a video made from stills.. If you really want to convey a sense of movement in time rather than just regular long exposures, then I would call it 'Motion Thursday' . This could then potentially also include short exposure shots that convey motion (eg taken out of a car window with a streaked background and frozen rider on a bike)
Thanks again. Appreciate how much work this is to organize!
Oh I like motion. Then you can get really creative.
Thanks for the feed-back, @sjarvie5! See my reply to intrepidphotos.
Thanks for all the work you put into this contest!
Really a pleasure! Any of its success is definitely a collective effort!
I think this is a great idea @intrepidphotos Motion Thursday will provide a wide range of options.
Thanks for the feed-back, @trudeehunter! See my reply to intrepidphotos.
I like Motion Thursday too :)
Thanks for the feed-back, @hedac! See my reply to intrepidphotos.
Agreed
Thanks for the feed-back, @jarvie! See my reply to intrepidphotos.
Thank you for your feed-back and continued participation, @intrepidphotos! You and everyone else who commented on this matter definitely helped me see the value of keeping things personal and preserving the current submissions format. I will follow the collective advice on this. (For clarification, I wasn’t suggesting changing the format, only allowing a second submission option in addition to commenting under the post; either way, sticking with only posting as comments is better, I think).
As far as Time Lapse, clearly there is consensus on dropping it! Alas for not being able to coin new terms or reassigning meaning to concepts in photography as in philosophy! Perhaps all the better though, as I have thought of a theme that I think will work well. On this note, your suggestion is interesting, and I can see why it would be backed by other photographers/participants. While I love the idea, I am afraid I am a stickler to alliterations for this particular contest. :P I’m also seeing a significant degree of overlap between Water Wednesday, Mountains Monday, and Simple Sunday and long exposure, so my guess and hope is that while this will not be a category in itself, we’ll still see these magical shots often.
Thanks again so much for your feed-back and support!
I second the Motion. ;)