2006 photo contest

[Marty Cozad]

Its that time of the year again.

Guess what I was out doing tonight.????
No, its not mowing grass[:(]
I hope your thinking about the contest. I'd love to see more and more modern mainline folks.
Come ON, get those big diesels out there and get some photos.[^]

[Ray Dunakin]

When is the deadline for submissions?

[Anonymous]

Hey Marty, I want to extend to you an invite to my forum. We need at least one garden railroader other than me.

[Rene Schweitzer]

The deadline is August 10. Plenty of time to submit!

[Marty Cozad]

Thanks for the invite.
For those of you who say,,
"why try, I'll never win"
can be provine wrong.
I use contest as a personal challenge to move one step forward.
And don't make this too hard, play with your cameras , test out different settings and lightings.
Also, the judges can't enter,,,heheheheh so we don't have to worry about them
[;)][:o)][:o)]

[Rene Schweitzer]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Marty Cozad

Thanks for the invite.
For those of you who say,,
"why try, I'll never win"
can be provine wrong.
I use contest as a personal challenge to move one step forward.
And don't make this too hard, play with your cameras , test out different settings and lightings.
Also, the judges can't enter,,,heheheheh so we don't have to worry about them
[;)][:o)][:o)]

Marty is right. Give it a try. If you don't win the contest, there are other places to get your photo published (End of the line, web site, etc) that we use from photo contest submissions.

And also, it's not only the judges that can't enter, it's anyone from Kalmbach. [:D][:D]

[Marty Cozad]

Thats a good point Rene, Last year I entered my first city wide contest and placed in all three photos, i was shocked.
I mainly wanted folks so see what outdoor modelrailroading was all about.

[Anonymous]

well gimme another geep 30 and some more cars and i could make a pic!

[FJ and G]

wonder if O gauge is welcome?

[Train 284]

August 10th is the deadline huh? I should be able to get a good pic or two by then!

[Marty Cozad]

Bring this back up.
I have about 6 shots, I'm tring to have me wify help pick the 3 best. Or reshot.
Nows the time if you like flowers....

[tmcc man]

I have 3 great (in my opinion) shots from an open house that a member from my Garden RR club had. There are a lot more, but I narrowed it down to those 3.

[Anonymous]

I'll be ready!

Perhaps a Japanese scene or two would be unusual...

Matthew [bow]

[Capt Bob Johnson]

Ah, so Mr. Foster, You are very perceptive!

[Anonymous]

I Wonder how many more entries from outside the US there will be?

[:-^] [bow]

[cabbage]

Maybe I will try(?)

regards

ralph

[Chompers]

I would love to enter, but my parents would never let me, they saiy they don't wan't all the junk mail and stuff.

Oh well.

I have a few pictures, and since i can't enter... here they are

[pic]http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b5cc08b3127cce966ff100631000000016102AbN2jZk2cMd [/pic]

[pic]http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b5cc08b3127cce96680a1c433c00000036102AbN2jZk2cMd[/pic]

[pic]http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b5cc08b3127cce96681ad3c2cb00000016102AbN2jZk2cMd[/pic]

[pic]http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b5cc08b3127cce966ff100631000000016102AbN2jZk2cMd[/pic]

[Tom The Brat]

Ralph, nobody will believe there are prototypes for your locos!

[Marty Cozad]

phil
Nice shots, good looking RR.
I don't really think you will get junk mail from entering the contest.
I've enter the last many years and can't think of any junk that came from them using my address

[Chompers]

Marty,

Thanks. I will ask them to night.

[Rene Schweitzer]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Chompers

I would love to enter, but my parents would never let me, they saiy they don't wan't all the junk mail and stuff.

Chompers,

As coordinator of the photo contest, I can tell you that you will NOT receive ANY junk mail because you entered. All entries come right to me. I log each one into a database and give it a code number (so the judges don't know the entrant). I keep these databases ONLY for correspondence of these photos. If you don't win the contest, we'll usually keep them on hand to possibly use for other things (end of the line, etc.) I do NOT share the information with anyone else.

[Anonymous]

Are we all still thinking about this contest?

August 10th, hmm...still plenty of time to build something unique. I think I have just the thing, though I wonder if an American theme will get more votes.

Rene, have there been many non-US winners before? I suppose it doesn't matter, always ready to introduce the Japanese narrow gauge lines to a wider audience.



Matthew [bow]