Show Them You Love Them Contest - UPDATES

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EDIT: 12/9/2009 - Thanks to we have had another subscription or donation offered to the professional division winner which now makes the grand prize a 3 year subscription!!!! Get your pro entries in folks!

EDIT: 12/14/2009 Time for the weekly(ish) update, and a new news article!!! Those of you who are receiving it, please make sure to fave the news article to help spread the word. Any help we can get would be fantastic! We now have 12 entries for the amateur division and 5 for the professional with over a month to go, it is definitely on track for being an absolutely fantastic contest. With 11 judges, and a grand prize of a 3 year subscription, free print, 3 news articles and nearly 40 journal features you really cannot go wrong! If you offered a feature or prize please make sure to double check your on the list, I think I have everyone, but I dont know for certain. I am always on the lookout for prizes or exposure for the contest, so please keep advertising in your journals!!!

ALSO we have connected this contest with the following from who is also having a petography competition. Please feel free to enter in both competitions for an increased chance at winning great prizes! I have entered some photos in that competition and am also offering up a prize... So please feel free to enter both and help out both myself and Ewa5! The news article for this contest can be seen here news.deviantart.com/article/10…


Show Them You Love Them - CONTEST

This will be my first contest, which has been endorsed by multiple clubs and fantastic photographers within the DA community. There are eleven extremely skilled judges (both amateur and professional) for this competition, all of whom will be taking part in choosing the winners. Aside from this wonderful cause we have fantastic prizes including multiple subscriptions, monetary donations to the Regina Humane Society, prints and a crazy amount of journal features! I am looking for a minimum of 20 entrants (at least 10 for each division) so please keep spreading the word!

I am still looking for more prizes! These can be as simple as a journal feature or news article, or as in depth as prints, subscriptions, artwork dedications, or donations to the animal welfare society of your choice! If you have $5 to spare, I am certain that donating it in the name of a winner would be as great a prize as a 1 month subscription!


Rules

• - You must watch me this is so that you can stay on top of the contest information without me having to try to contact everyone.

• -Photography only. I will make allowances for minor photo-manipulation (I will accept pretty much anything so long as the main subject is not photo-shopped into a different photograph) If you have a question please ask!

• -There will be 2 separate divisions in this competition, Amateur and Professional and your category must be specified upon entry or you will be automatically defaulted into professional. The reason for this division is to make certain that everyone - no matter their skill level - has an equal shot at winning something in this contest! The professional vs. amateur divide is not meaning paid vs. unpaid but is instead with regards to the quality of your work. Generally speaking, if you don't know which division you fit into you are probably considered a professional.

• - If there is less than 10 entries in each category I reserve the right to combine divisions and I may or may not decide to offer all subscriptions/donations if I am forced to do so.

• -All entries must be new and captured (not uploaded, but taken) after November 30th 2009. For clarification: If the photo was taken November 21st, it cannot be entered in this competition. If you have a photograph taken January 1st, it is valid to be entered in this competition! The whole point is an equal playing field, unfortunately I cannot make exceptions! Pets are everywhere, and even if yours is gone, passed away, or back at home you need to find someone else's to photograph.

• -Please NOTE me with your entry in either thumb or link format and the name of your division. I will begin defaulting as soon as I begin receiving entries en masse... If you dont want to go pro, please tell me!

• -Competition will end January 31st 2010

• -You may only submit one deviation, and you can only change that Deviation once!

• -Please keep an eye on the collection that will be created once I start receiving entries, please be courteous and favorite the other entries!

• -NEW: I reserve the right to change your submission from amateur to pro if I feel it is extremely out of place in a certain category, it is not a problem I expect to run into but I want to keep it fair for everyone!

Contest Subject
In my hometown there has been a problem with a surplus of unwanted and abused animals which has caused our humane society to be significantly over capacity for at least the last 3 months.... There is no question; as my hometown grows the problem of animal overpopulation gets more accentuated. There has been incidences of people shooting purebred 2 month old puppies in the head because they were asked to wait a week before surrendering their puppy due to space constrictions! The Regina Humane society is in dire need, but the community is only backing them so much - and now they are begging for new facilities to help offer these desolate animals a second chance at a happy life. The facilities they currently occupy are at least 30 years old and were built when my city was almost half the size it currently is. Needless to say, with human expansion also comes a greater demand for puppies from puppy mills.

According to No Puppy Mills Canada, 10 million 'excess' dogs and cats will be killed in shelters this year.  These are generally happy, healthy animals who, through no fault of their own, nobody wants.

It has been breaking my heart to see all these poor unwanted pets being given away for no reason other than improper training and in-education. I don't know about you, but I love my pets (all four of them) and consider them as much my family as my parents. Through this contest I hope to help raise some awareness for those poor creatures who go to bed every night crammed two or three at a time in a cement floored cell covered in urine and feces. These animals are forced into these horrible conditions simply because people refuse to open their homes to these poor animals who need them.

Through this contest I am hoping to remind everyone of the wonders of pet ownership! So I commission you to take a photograph of your pet doing something that makes you say "That is so (pets name here)." I want to see what makes you laugh, smile, giggle or moan. I want to see what makes you love your pets so much you will happily pick up that accident in the middle of your kitchen floor. Your pet can be a cat, dog, horse, rat, etc. Whatever you classify as a *pet* is good enough for me! For those of you who have not had the opportunity to own an animal, or have recently lost yours, please offer to take photographs of a friends animal or offer your service to your local animal shelter and enter those photographs in lieu of your own pet!

• -Here are some acceptable examples from my works:

Prize-List

• -All winners will receive a journal feature from the following gracious Deviants:

• -As well as news articles courtesy of:

Other prizes include but may not be limited to:

Amateur

1st place:

• -3 month premium subscription or an equal monetary donation to the Regina Humane Society, and a dedicated deviation from

• -1 year premium subscription courtesy of

• -Journal feature courtesy of

2nd place:

• -1 month premium subscription or an equal monetary donation to the Regina Humane Society, and a dedicated deviation from

• -6 month premium subscription courtesy of

3rd place:

• -A $5 Monetary donation in your name to the Regina Humane Society,  and a dedicated deviation from

• -3 month premium subscription courtesy of

Professional

1st place:

• -1 year premium subscription or an equal monetary donation to the Regina Humane Society, and a dedicated deviation from

• -1 year premium subscription courtesy of

• -1 year premium subscription or an equal monetary donation to his local Humane Society courtesy of

• -1 print and journal feature courtesy of (The print will need to be added to your wishlist)

2nd place:

• -3 month premium subscription or an equal monetary donation to the Regina Humane Society,and a dedicated deviation from

• -6 month premium subscription courtesy of

3rd place:

• -1 month premium subscription or an equal monetary donation to the Regina Humane Society, and a dedicated deviation from

• -3 month premium subscription courtesy of

Current Entries

Professional Entries - ruffian2001.deviantart.com/fav…
Amateur Entries - ruffian2001.deviantart.com/fav…


Our Lovely Judges!

Thanks in advance to the following who have offered up their time to judge this contest:



I think we are at a perfect number for my judging panel, all of whom cover the spectrum from professional to amateur! If you still wish to help out with the contest please feel free to donate anything you can afford or give time to do! We would love any help we can get!