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Welcome to Round 1 of the TiBB Photography Competition 2011! This week the contestants were given the theme Joy - they had to take pictures of things that represented joy to them. Here is what they came up with!

Adjacent
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Inspiration: I get joy from my cat, Katie. Plus, she seems to be pretty happy, most of the time it seems as if she is permanently smiling!

Conor
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Failed to send in

Iceman
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Failed to send in

jarroddaniel1
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Inspiration: Ok so i got really stuck and i can't think of anything... So i took this. For me it does show Joy.. I dunno why but it makes me Happy! I think its because its an amazing sight and the end of the day and just so beautiful!

Jords
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Inspiration: I think there's 2 types of joy that can be shown in pictures - physical (i.e. expression) and symbolic (i.e. something that brings joy). I opted for symbolic when I found it hard getting a good photo of my pup jumping up. Music brings me and a lot of people joy - either to enhance your mood or played at celebrations to have a dance or sing along. I made it clear that I wanted to show music as joyous by arranging the headphone wiring to write the word 'J-O-Y'

Locke.
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Inspiration: My dog being very joyful whilst getting ready for a night down at the pub

Shaun
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Inspiration: Yeah it's a bit lazy but I genuinely did take this photo last night LOL and it's got sparklers, it's a birthday celebration, my sister's laughing/smiling, and it was a really great night so I think it's a nice representation of 'joy'. I wouldn't say it's a technically amazing photo but still

Voting Details

So there we go! The contestants the forum members and judges will be voting for this week are:

Adjacent
jarroddaniel1
Jords
Locke.
Shaun

As Conor and Iceman didn't send their photos in before the deadline, they will be given a warning - failure to send in their photos again will result in an instant elimination, but I'll let them off for this week as it was the first round.

Forum members voting = rank the photos this week in order of preference (eg. 1st = Favourite...5th = Least favourite)

Judges voting = Rate each photo out of 20, giving points to these 3 aspects of the photo - Originality (up to 5 points) Sticking to the theme (up to 5 points) and Overall quality of the photo (up to 10 points).

As Patrick is away on holiday, only 3 judges will be voting this week - CharlieO, Niamh and ukturtle.

Send your votes to me via PM. Voting will close tomorrow evening at 6PM, so get your votes in now everyone!