Big Blue Holiday Season Photo Challenge

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BIG BLUE HOLIDAY SEASON PHOTO CHALLENGE
Yep, it's that time of the year again folks, the holidays are fast approaching. With that in mind, we are going to have a photo contest that will be all about this time of the year. We have in the US our Thanksgiving. All over the world, we have Christmas and New Years and for many parts of the world, we have a lot of snow. That’s what this will be all about; we want to celebrate the feeling and spirit of not only the holidays, but the season as well.

Here are the rules, just to keep everyone on the same track:

1. The theme of this contest is the holiday season on the railroad.
   
2. You can take any railroad picture, or a picture around a railroad, any scale up to 1:1.
   
3. These pictures can have a holiday theme, or just be a winter scene. For those where there is no snow (like in my part of Arizona or in OZ), just depict what looks right for your area during this time of the year.
   
4. Each entrant can post up to five pictures. These pictures can be of different views of the same subject or up to five different subjects.
   
5. On November 1, we will open a thread specifically for posting your entries. You can post in there once, if you want to add or change anything, you can edit that post. You can put up to five of your entry photos in that one post.
   
6. Each entry will be judged on their overall pictures, not just one, unless, of course, they only enter one.
   
7. You will be allowed to add special affects such as borders, tinting, fish eye, overlays, inserts, stitching more than one photo together or whatever your photo editing ability or imagination might inspire.
   
8. We will have a voting poll at the end of the contest; certificates will be awarded for the top three winners.
   
9. The person entering it must have taken all pictures.
   
10. The if you’re submitting pictures from a layout, it doesn’t have to be yours, just as long as you are the one taking the picture.

The contest will start on November 1, and run until Christmas. We will open a voting poll thread sometime on December 26, dependent on how cranky or achy I feel when I wake up.

Please use this thread for any questions or comments. Please, do not post your entries here in this thread.