Submitted by @mrwanderlust

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The new theme will be:

Human Eye B&W

Guest judge is @bescouted

Photos in Black & White strongly featuring human eyes.

Examples:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/149392912613719108/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/21251429471187954/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/430304939377691461/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/306244843397488071/

The deadline for entries for SPC51 is August 24 0400 AM UTC. Winners will be announced on Friday August 25th.

You can always check SteemitPhotoChallenge.com to find out the current theme and look at the recent entries. Don’t forget to vote on your favourites.

Would you like to be a judge??

Looking for Steemit users who have been very active in the photography section for at least a few months to judge and select winners for the contest. Guest Judges will now be paid 20SBD going forward. Contact me at Steemit.chat username @jamtaylor

Please NOTE

Prizes will be reduced until further notice in an effort to be more self-sustaining and stretch the post rewards a bit further. I hope that many of you will still take part because it's just fun and potentially lots of good exposure! Get it? EXPOSURE?!?

Prizes

First Place — 30 SBD
Second Place — 20 SBD
Third Place — 10 SBD
Honourable Mentions — 2 SBD Each

@berniesanders the official sponsor of the Steemit Photo Challenge since Day #1

What do you guys think of a different set of prizes? We can switch to Steem, and there have also been suggestions of giving Steem Power (for periods of time) as prizes. Let's say, 100 SP for a week for first place, that sort of thing?

Let me know what you think in the comments.

If any users would like to add the SPC post itself (not @jamtaylor necessarily) to their auto-vote, that would be splendid.

Rules And Conditions

Please read these carefully and adhere to them

• I strongly encourage you to post work that is original to this challenge, in other words — take a new photograph instead of using an old one.

• No more than 3 entries will be considered, if you post more than 3 then only the first 3 will be considered.

• All entries must be a post tagged both #photography and #steemitphotochallenge

• The Title should contain "SteemitPhotoChallenge Entry" along with the title of your work.

• Let us know the medium used to produce the photograph, it may be more impressive based on what it is.

• Basic processing is allowed. ‘Digital art’ won’t be considered.

• Any medium or format is allowed — iphone, ipad, film, digital, point and shoot, drone, whatever. Once it takes a picture. Note that image quality will be considered.

• Multiple Entries can all go in one post, just put the details under the image.

• Any attempt to steal others' work is considered a serious infraction by the community, so don't do it. Please don't waste your and our time by posting some image from the net.

• Every effort will be made to ensure that we do not reward theft. All images will be reverse checked, if the image has been found on more than 2 “major” websites, it will be disqualified unless reasonable proof can be shown to prove ownership of the original. If there is any doubt whatsoever about the ownership of the photograph, I reserve the right to disqualify the image. It is in your interest to provide any proof necessary. I would appreciate any help from the community in finding plagiarism where I might have missed it.

• The photographs will be judged on how well they met the challenge, the quality of the image, the composition, lighting, exposure, creativity and the general aesthetics which means that yes, it is subjective.

^{By entering this competition you acknowledge that you own the rights to the photographs and allow for me to re-post the image should it receive a winner or honourable mention position.}

Suggest the next theme!

Let me know what you'd like to see from the next Steemit Photo Challenge.

If you'd like to be considered as a guest judge, let me know in the comments so I can check your work :)

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