[Lewis.]

Welcome! As you can see, the contestant list is above! Well done to those who managed to get a place (everyone who applied)!

This year there will be just two judges: Myself and Vicky, and we will rate each photo out of 20, giving points to these 3 aspects of the photo:

- Originality 5 points available
- Sticking to the theme 5 points available
- Overall quality of the photo 10 points available

This will give you a final rating. This final rating will be put into a leaderboard. This leaderboard will be 25% of the final result! Votes from forum members will be the other 75%. The other forum members will have to put the photo's in rank order; the person with the lowest overall score being sent home.

The rules are the same as what they are every year and can be found in the opening post.

Themes will be posted in this thread. Contestants and forum members can chat in this thread about ideas, although please refrain from posting your photo on the forum.

Every Sunday evening there will be a 'photo exhibition' - which will contain the photo's from that week. The results will be later on in the evening.


Theme 1
Contestants, your first theme is Misery. You now have until the 21st of November by 6pm to send me your photo's. They must have a connection with the theme. The judges are looking for originality as one of their marking categories, so don't be too cliché; think outside of the box and get a good photo. Photo's must be sent in by PM please. So, get snapping!