Vote Section 1: Nature – General

“Landscapes, geologic formations, weather phenomena, and organisms. The story-telling value of the image shall receive priority over pictorial quality.”

Vote Section 2: Nature – Wildlife

“One or more zoological or botanical organisms free and unrestrained in a natural or adopted habitat. The story-telling value of the image shall receive priority over pictorial quality.”

Vote Section 3: Photojournalism – General

“Images with informative content and emotional impact, reflecting the human presence in our world. The journalistic (story-telling) value of the image shall receive priority over pictorial quality.“

Vote Section 4: Photojournalism – Human Interest

“Photojournalism images limited to those that depict a person or persons in an interactive, emotional or unusual situation.“

Vote Section 5: Color – Flowers

1-SunflowerUpClose

2-ShadowPuppets

3-ShyBeauty

4-WallOfSunflowers

5-SubduedRed

“As Color Images below, plus be dominated by a flower or flowers, budding or in bloom, that occupy most of the image and be the primary center of interest.“

Vote Section 6: Color – General

1-SoftSucculents

2-GrapeFeedingAuger

3-PitcherAndPalm4-TooMuchSoap

4-TooMuchSoap

5-MushroomsAtTheMarket

6-CaliforniaScienceCenterRose

7-AntiqueTracks

8-EmigrantPeak

9-ReflectedRainbow

10-BarnAndRainbow

11-GreenGlass

12-GraveyardCherub

13-LightToDriveTheDevilAway-Frauenkirche-Munich

14-PlonleinCorner-RothenburgObDerTauber

15-Shrouded

16-WaterSculpture

17-RoseWindowLight

18-LittleCarsInMalibu

19-Cybernest

20-UnitedLineup

21-MontanaMilkyWay

22-ConstructionSite

23-IdahoForestFires

24-Kayaks

25-PotsForKingLudwigII

“Color images will be judged both for their technical and pictorial merit. The image should be properly exposed, be appropriately in focus, and have appropriate depth of field. The image should have strong composition, pleasing quality, and color impact.“

Vote Section 7: Monochrome – Buildings

“As Monochrome images below, plus of a building or buildings that dominate the image – that is, occupy most of the image and be the center of interest.”

Vote Section 8: Monochrome – General

“Monochrome images are judged both for their technical and pictorial merit. The image must be properly exposed, be in focus, and have appropriate depth of field. A monochrome image should have strong composition; pleasing quality; and texture, pattern, and/or tone impact. The content is unrestricted.”

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Setting up WordPress.org Sites on a Mac

I’ve been dabbling in the black arts of putting up WordPress sites that are not created through this online tool.  In other words, I have been tackling the dreaded “five-minute install” on my Mac.  For me, that has turned into the “two-and-a-half hour install,” but I think I’ve finally cracked it.  And, in keeping with the purpose of this simplified version of WordPress, I offer the following links as resources.

1) As suggested by the eBook “Rockstar WordPress Designer,” I found WordPress.org’s Codex with directions on how to set up WordPress on a Mac using MAMP as a local host.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP

2) Following the advice of the WordPress.org Codex, I downloaded and installed MAMP on my Mac.
http://www.mamp.info

3) Things went well until steps three and four of the Codex directions.  I think it was because I tried to set it up on another hard drive and then couldn’t figure out how to connect to the new database I created.  So I deleted MAMP and reinstalled it with the default settings, then followed Francis Phan’s “MAMP and WordPress Installation Tutorial” video on how to set it up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne7wlDSg_D8&feature=related

My blog is up and running now, and I will go back to Rockstar WordPress Designer and the video to figure out how to use WordPress next.