Hi folks!

The 2013 AditNow photo competition has started :)

It runs from today (3rd August) to 31st December 2013.

This year is a little different... there is no theme... we felt that a theme such as remains or explorers was a bit restrictive.

So this year, please just take and enter your very best mine exploration / mining history related photographs - above or below ground and enter them!

More prizes than ever this year. Bigger and better...

1st Prize - usual StenLight pack 1 with battery and charger

2nd Prize - a fantastic RETRO XP 400lm upgrade from Mr Mike AND a copy of Adventurers in the Lead Trade from pwhole

3rd Prize - an awesome Fenix PD32UE from Vanoord, and 2 runners up prizes also from Vanoord of 2 Silva miniature headtorches

And the www.moorebooks.co.uk prize for excellence in mining surface photography this year is a copy of the excellent book Coal Mines and Steel Mills by Bern & Hilla Becher.

One quick point on something that caused some confusion last year... post-processing and Photoshopping... you can enter photographs straight off the camera or you can process them in Photoshop and the like. However excessively Photoshopped photographs are not likely to win. A bit of sharpening, a bit of colour tweaking and the like is fine. Most of us do it. But if the photo looks like something out a scifi movie it's not likely to win!

Hope that clears that up - and with that out the way... ENJOY!

And a final quick thank you to the sponsors:

Vanoord / ABC Powermarine
Mr Mike / Technical Concepts
pwhole / Phil Wolstenholme
Mike Moore / www.moorebooks.co.uk

FULL DETAILS, PRIZES, RULES ETC

http://www.aditnow.co.uk/static/mine-photographs-competition-2013.aspx 

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Bump!

Still time to enter the 2013 photo competition if you haven't already!

Lowest number of entries ever this year 😞 but at least that does improve everyone's chances of winning :thumbup:

Please note all entered photos need to be in the corresponding mine album, not in personal album! Unfortunately a couple of entries this year have failed to do that so can't be included in the judging 😠

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I haven't been underground much at all this year so very few photos taken. One question - does the photos have to be from 2013?

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- does the photos have to be from 2013?

My reading of Simon's original post - the bit quoted below - is that photos have to be taken this year, but I'd be interested to know for sure as well.

So this year, please just take and enter your very best mine exploration / mining history related photographs - above or below ground and enter them!

Well it don't say that in the rules for the competition...
Might be nice if admin confirmed either way?

http://www.aditnow.co.uk/static/mine-photographs-competition-2013.aspx 

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Not had chance to review what the exact rules are but none of the judges (bar SRL who probably has the ability to pull the exif data but not the will) can see when a photo was taken, only when it was uploaded so use your own discretion perhaps...

We will however likely guess that any faded Polaroids with Austin Maxis in the background aren't recent...

Sorry for late reply Manic. I've been completely snowed under for weeks :(

No, there's no requirement for photos to have been uploaded this year. It would be nice if they were - but it's not a requirement of entry.

Broadly, the requirements of entry are:

1, They must be named locations, if it's sensitive don't enter them!

2, They must be in a mine's user album

3, Enter up to 3 photos (no more than 3), change them right up to the end if you like

4, And that's about it!

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