5 winners of this photo competition will receive:
· HP Photosmart R967 Digital Camera
· 1G Memory Card
· A Pink Camera Case
· A $50 gift certificate to Snapfish to meet all your printing needs
One lucky Grand Prize Winner will also receive a private photo shoot and/or photography lesson with professional children's photographer, Dari Michele. Dari will travel to meet you and your family in your very own home to create the photo memories of a lifetime! Dari's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, New York Magazine, Family Circle, Modern Bride Magazine and many more publications.
How to Enter: Now through Monday, April 30, 2007, photographers will post original photos to The Manic Mommies group. Photos can be pictures of mothers, images representative of motherhood, or pictures by mothers. Enter a photo that shows us what's best about being a mom, a special moment that you've shared with your own mom, or your photo of a picture perfect mom.
Multiple entries are allowed. Members will vote to rate the top 20 finalists, from which Dari Michele will choose five winners. All winners will be announced on Monday, May 14th.
All entrants will receive a discount to Snapfish, the digital photo printing and sharing service by HP, just for entering!
To enter:
1) You must be a member of The Manic Mommies group. Click here to join the group >>
2) After you've completed the group registration, publish your image(s) by following these steps (multiple entries are allowed in both categories):
- Click on the "Publish" tab at the top of any Gather page
- Select "Publish an Image"
- Browse to find and upload your image; images must be JPG format only and cannot exceed 1.5Mb
- In the "Image Caption" field, you must add a description of your photo (example: My sister baking cookies with her kids; My mother in 1934; Me and my newborn)
- In the "Who can view my image" field, click "Everyone," and also select "The Manic Mommies" group
- Click "Save"
**Please note: Because The Manic Mommies group is moderated, your entry will not appear immediately in http://themanicmommies.gather.com. It may take up to 48 hours for the moderator to accept it into the contest.
To verify that you have tagged your photo(s) properly, you can check The Manic Mommies Images Gallery. Scroll down and look for your photo(s) under "Recent Images."
Please contact support@gather.com with any additional contest questions. Use the subject line Mother's Day Photo Contest in your email, and please attach a JPG of your image(s) if you are having trouble posting to the site.
Contest Timeline:
Monday, April 16: Entry Period Begins
Monday, April 30: Entry Period Ends
Thursday, May 10: Extended Voting Period Ends
Monday, May 14: All Winners Announced
Finalists and winner announcements can be found after May 14th at http://themanicmommies.gather.com/.
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Comments: 34
I guess that is how the voting works.
To ensure the integrity of the contest we have developed processes that detect voting fraud and other irregularities. We run the processes periodically throughout the contest and again at the end of the contest, across all entries. If we determine that certain ratings or actions are intended to compromise the outcome of the contest we will take corrective actions. Therefore, rating averages can change throughout the contest and after the final voting period.
Thank you everyone for your participation and good luck!
MaryAnne, Director of Member Services
This is a total and complete sham. Every single one of my entries was hit with at least 8 drive-by 1s or 2s this afternoon. Some of mine are excellent. Some by others (people I don't know) are excellent as well - check out Kylie's work, for example. Shame on drive-by raters.
MaryAnne: I appreciate you stopping by to read my comment and to let us all know that Gather keeps an eye on the way votes are cast. Of course everyone wants to feel like contests are won fair and square with no hostility at the end of it all. I hope the winner of this contest really deserves to win and images aren't overlooked just because they were victims of low ratings given purely out of jealousy or spite. I have seen some WONDERFUL entries this time around (I am not going to enter anything) and I think we all know what should win and what shouldn't even get close to the top 20. That being said... I look forward to seeing how this one turns out.
Good luck everyone!!!
I guess this is the true test of Gather's fraud detection 'processes'. If your ratings go back up soon, then they work. If they don't, they're a joke.
I just know when my ratings take a huge nose-dive, but I can never tell what anyone rated it - I can only assume.
Has anyone else noticed that as soon as your ratings go up within a few hours they are drove back down again? Or is it just me, lol?
I just wanted to say I am finally going through what is now under 7,600 pieces of gather new mail that is in my inbox on here. So with that in mind I have finally come to a piece of mail that was addressed to me in regards this article submission you have created to share with the gather community. Thank you for taking the time and sharing your piece with us here at gather. :o)
And as well Merry Christmas... and Happy Holidays... :o)