Baseball is winding down and football is finally here! No matter what version you enjoy (NFL or otherwise), it's a good feeling is all I'm saying.

Hope everyone is having a good week!

- Ken
... so yeah, apparently I am way more excited about baseball than anyone else around here so we did not have any entries for the contest I posted. Disappointing, but oh well. Guess bfoflcommish will have to come up with something a bit more enticing or perhaps more up everyone's alley. We'll probably hold off for a while longer either way.

Have a good weekend!
Let's try this once more ... with feeling.

Here in the States (and at least one part of Canada too) it is Baseball Season! To celebrate that, we will try once more to have a contest that will highlight the gentleman's sport known as baseball.

Here's the Task
Sumbit a photo to the Contest folder that captures the action of the game.
Some quick examples (I'm sure you can come up with more):
- a diving catch
- sliding into base just before a tag
- a pitcher mid-pitch
... and so on.
Note that the photo can be of any level of baseball (little league through professional league), as long as the subject is wearing some sort of uniform.

The key here is that we want the best picture you can capture, the more unique or unusual, the better off you will be in the judging. Focus on the action - timing will be your best friend. Think of what will stand out as opposed to what anybody can take a picture of. Wow us, please!

Prizes
The winner will get:
- 3 month paid subscription to DeviantArt
- feature of their work on both dssken's and bfoflcommish's pages (your choice of up to 6 items to feature, doesn't have to be sport related)
- recognition/feature of winning entry on EverythingSports page
Runner-Up(s) will get:
- recognition/feature of runner-up entry on EverythingSports page

Deadline
Entries must be posted by Midnight Eastern on July 6th. We will narrow them down to the best entries and then do a poll to help decide the winner. Tiebreakers will be up to the discretion of the Admins. Winner selected and prizes to be awarded by no later than July 31st.

The Simple Rules
- The entry must be a photograph (digital or film), taken by you and submitted to your gallery.
- The entries must be only new submissions of work (anything submitted after May 18th, 2010).
- Submit your entries to the Contest folder, please. If not, it may not count for the contest.
- This contest is open to Members and Contributors of the group only. You should join if you want to participate.
- Admins (dssken and bfoflcommish) can enter but ultimately cannot win.
- Enter as often as you like, but know that we're looking for quantity over quality here.
- Some minor post-shot work is allowed (color correction, watermark - you get the idea) but no photo-manipulations will be accepted for judging.
- All results are final. No whining.

If you have any questions, please feel free to comment on this post and I will do my best to answer. Otherwise, Good Luck!
I would like to thank all affiliates as well as new members. Please look around and submit art until your hearts content.

All members, please take a moment and visit our affiliates and show them some love as well, as they are also sports fans just like us.

If anyone has any suggestions or comments plese feel free to write me. I'm a big boy I can take criticism.


and as I close this I would like to remind all to submit a few baseball pictures for our March contest. you having to lose, and nothing to gain but watchers and a possible journal feature from everything sports, myself as well as kniel187.
I would like to have our first contest for EverythingSports In honor or the start of spring training games as well as just my favorite sport anyway, I would like to hold a baseball contest.

Submit your best baseball picture. kniel187 and I will chose our favorite. Winner will get a journal feature not only here but on my own page as well. I dont know of kniel will offer 1 up but im guessing he will. Would anyone else like to offer a journal entry or another prize send me a note.

Contest starts now and ends 3/31/10