[Calin]

I'm only a junoir member here, but on the topic of a Monthly photo comp and when the photo/s were taken. I assumed 'Monthly' meant submitted into the comp that month, regardless of when the photo was actually taken. As a lot of people are doing this anyway, seems logical not to be so strict as to limit submissions by when a photo was taken.

I do think only one photo should be entered per member per month and not several in the same month, having more than one per person makes it difficult to keep track and a tad unfair on those less skilled wanting to 'have a go' if competing against some of the people with a good crop of photos already 'in the bank'. Also if the 'best' shot is picked out of a group of several and the others from the same person are equally 'good' then second and third perhaps would also be given to those photos on merit. Better just to take a pun on one for that month to give us hacks some encouragement and a nod at getting close to something others might enjoy.

I also think once a photo has been entered for whatever month it can't be entered again in the future - I presume this is the case already, and perhaps this should include photos that have 'won' a prize in other comps or already widely recognised for it's merit and 'artistry' elsewhere - no idea how you would screen for this, but relying on peoples own integrity seems like a good start, since it's all a bit of fun anyway. Most people, if not all would be fair when given some responsibility to 'police' themselves and take the burden off the shoulders of the comp organiser/s.

Chucking 'rules' in and then not apply them doesn't seem to make sense to me, as its not a rule then, perhaps a 'guide' for photo comp etiquette maybe. In any case the KISS principle would be apply.

Nice photos, maybe one day, when I take the lense cap off I'll take a crack at it myself - for now just enjoying the show ....