TWO photo
competition 2006

The TWO photo competition 2006 is open to members of the TWO Community.

Every fortnight, a new weather photograph competition is opened, based around specific weather topics. Members of the TWO Community will then vote for their favourite entry at the end of each competition topic, using voting threads in the TWO Community forum. The winner of each of the 12 topics will make the pages of the TWO Weather Photographic Calendar for 2007.
Any exceptional weather images may also be submitted to the International Journal of Meteorology, and may be published with the owner's permission (see rules).

For details on how to enter the competition, and for general rules, please click here.

 

Current Photo Competition 2006 Topic:
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VII Sunrise/sunset
3rd June
Any images containing sky/foreground scenery on the theme of sunrise/sunset.


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Future Topics:

VIII Weather free-for-all
22nd July
Riot!

IX Images of Summer
12th August
Photographs showing the best of the British summer. Can include scenery or sky.

X Thunderstorms
2nd September
Can include storm clouds, lightning, tornadoes, hail etc. Does not include flooding.

XI Autumn storms
23rd September
Includes flooding, wind damge, heavy seas, etc.

XII Autumn
14th October
Images that depict autumn, including leaf colour.

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Previous Topics:
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I Contrails
 28th January
All manner of imaginative shots (including scenery) as long as there are contrails in shot.

II Fog/mist effects
18th February
Excludes optical phenomenon on fog (haloes, glories, Brocken Spectre etc).

III Winter weather other than snow
11th March
Frost, ice icicles etc. Can not include snow.

IV Snow
1st April
Anything, as long as it's covered in snow!

V Clouds
22nd April
Any type of cloud. Does not include thunderstorms.

VI Optical effects
13th May
All optical effects (rainbows, haloes, arcs, glories, Brocken Spectres, iridescence, coronas, etc)
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TWO Weather Photo Competition: Information & Rules.

Please e-mail your photo entries to Bren J by clicking on the following link:

SUBMIT PHOTOS
 or e-mail to brendan.jones[at]dsl.pipex.com

In your e-mail, it's extremely important to include the following information:

* TWO user name
* Real name
* Location photograph was taken
* Date photograph was taken
* Brief description to accompany the image.

Rules of competition:

* Photographs must be your own!!
* No more than 2 photographs can be submitted per person, per topic.
* Please re-size images to 640x480 resolution. Any images not meeting this will be resized on entry.
* Try to keep images to less than 200kb in size. Images will have their resolution reduced if need be.
* Make sure you keep your high resolution copy yourself, in case your image makes the 2007 calendar.
* Image manipulation is not allowed. Photographs must be 'as taken'. The following adjustments are permitted however:
contrast adjustment
brightness adjustment
colour saturation adjustment
gamma adjustment
sharpening.
* Images submitted will be displayed in the 'current topic gallery'. These images will then be transferred to the archived galleries at the end of each competition, with all necessary credits and ownership. Please make clear when submitting images, if you do not wish them to be archived for future viewing on the TWO forum.
* Exceptional images may be of interest to the International Journal of Meteorology. If the photo editor of JoM would like to include your images in future issues, you will be contacted personally for permission. All credit will be given in any publication.

Enjoy the comp! And keep ramping!