Hi folks,
Please double check to see if I've faithfully summarized all of our revised rules for the January 2007 contests, and please post if these rules should be modified.

1) Each participant is allowed two entries per month.
2) The contest will remain open to new pictures during the first three weeks of the month, and the final month will be reserved for voting.
3) Pictures must be related to garter snakes, and only pictures related to the designated "theme," if applicable will be eligible to win.
4) Pictures don't have to be taken recently. Old pictures are fine.
5) At the end of the month, we'll add a poll to vote for the winning picture.
6) The winner will pick the theme, or category, for the following month's contest. This is completely at the winner's disgression, and the winner may choose not to have any theme, if desired.
7) The winner may submit photos for the following month's contest, but the same person is not allowed to win two months in a row. (This prevents the winner from choosing categories they're likely to win the following month).

Follow this link to learn about http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/site...-pictures.html.

Other comments:

A second thread should be made for a contest where we come up with captions (funny comments) about the photos. These are the type of comments that might appear in "thought bubbles" above the snake's head in a picture (e.g. 2007 caption contest).

A third thread should be made where we make general comments about either the caption contest or the photo contest. It should be named something like January 2007 photo contest comments. This will cut down on the amount of chit-chat between contest entries. Have I missed anything?

Once again, these rules should be copied into the first post on the new thread. It's title should be something like "January 2007 Photo Contest," so we can distinguish between monthly contests. Best of luck ,
Rick