As many of you know, today we had some problems with the email server and it crashed the contest account. I upgraded as soon as I saw this coming, but it takes about 24 hours for the upgrade to kick in. I have checked the account and we have space for one more day, and I am extending it until Saturday Oct 16th 2010 at midnight.
There have been a few of you who have submitted extremely large file sizes. I am asking that you keep them in the 2-5 range. If you have submitted a TIFF file 30MB in size, unfortunately, I will have to disqualify these. This was part of the problem with the email account crashing. Fortunately, you still have time to resubmit as a jpeg file in the 2-5mb size. For those of you who have not exceeded the 30MB size, do not worry about it.
As far as judging goes, it is hard to say when we will have results. I personally will go through all the images and select a pool for each category to go to the celebrity judges, after which Blog readers will vote for the winners. 1st Place winners will also be voted on for the Grand Prize winner. Please know I am doing my best to get the judging done as fast as possible, but it will take some time (maybe even a few weeks.) I will not be answering any more emails about when winners will be announced, just please keep an eye on the blog and you will see as soon as I know. 🙂
Thank you to everyone who has participated so far, its turning out to be a great contest. I am learning too about having these things and I hope to do a better job in planning these.
Best wishes
Michael
Michael, what time zone are you going by for the midnight time deadline?
Thanks Michael. I used the application ‘SmallImage" (for MAC) to reduce the size and overhead metatags after I used the photoshop method ‘save for web..’. This way I could the size of my files to about 3MB without loosing too much detail – or so I hope. After the contest, is it possible to ask what can be done to improve the pictures we’ve sent? Cheers!
UPDATE: I’m surprised by how few submissions we have for the Cell Phone Division.
@Mark- Pacific
Just wondering when the results will be announced. I may be blind, but couldn’t seem to find that information on your site. thank you
Kari
Just panicking a bit….should we go ahead and resubmit our photos to be certain they got in? Since the system crashed, I mean. thanks
I’m not sure if my pictures ever made it through because last night I kept receiving emails that they didn’t so I retried again….I’m unsure….do I need to resend?
did my entry’s come in correctly?
Can you confirm when the crash happened? Just checking on my submissions. Thanks!
If your images were rejected and you have not resubmitted, YES- you should resubmit. Thanks!
I submitted mine 11am oct 15 (pst),I didn’t receive any message failed, does it mean my pics came through? I submitted on all categories for both division. Thanks!
When I first read your contest rules it was never mentioned definite bytes/pixels to be used but required only high resolution digital files so I send my photos with the highest resolution my camera have. Taken my shots without bothering to visit your blog again because I’ve already saved the rules to serve as my guide since I’m not always online. My files not even exceed to 2mb, will it lead to my disqualification? Hope I’ll get to know the answer, thank you in advance.
Well, it says in the 2-5 range. I had one that was 5.x and assumed it was close enough. He mentioned he didn’t want raw and 30 gig file sizes. So, hopefully we’ll be close enough…
General submission question-I sent in three separate emails back to back but received only confirmation for the first one. Does this mean the other two were not received? This was completed 5 min before the deadline. Each picture was under the 30 MB limit. Thanks.
Great to see there was such a large submission Michael – I’m sure with everything you have gone through in the recent month that you are simply going to need some time to unwind…not to mention unpack 😀 Enjoy some time to yourself – I’m sure the extended deadline was very much appreciated by many:D ps. last wedding of the year today -WoW – love ending it this way!
Dang! I’m just now reading this a day late. I tried to submit some around 9:00pm mountain time on the 15th, and my email came back saying it couldn’t deliver it. I assumed it was because it was past midnight at whatever time zone you’re in.
I only got one entry in!
Boo. Oh well.
I have submitted my entry by 11:30 Pacific . Will it be considered ?
Not trying to be a jerk, but some of you need a reading lesson! He explains everything in the rules and on his blog, and you still ask questions. Questions that are already answered. Before you ask, read!
@Jason – Yep, you are right! I panicked but after re-reading the blog entries of all questions asked, Michael clarifies "The only way we have not gotten them is if the email is returned to you. There is one notifier per week, so even if you send several emails, you will only get one notifier." – Thanks!