Our January competition shall be themed 'Blue', please upload your best photos to the competition entries category in the gallery.
The competition will be open until Janaury 31st. At the end of January entries will go into a poll for voting for two weeks when a winner will be announced and transferred into the competition winners category. At the end of this year all competition winners will be entered into a poll for the photo of the year contest, held in January 2008.
One entry per member, photo must have been taken by a member but there is no time restriction on when the photo was taken.
In the event of an overwhelming number of entries Moderators and Admin will decide on a final short list, in this event any Moderators or Admin who entered the competition shall remove their own entry.
To help inspire I found the following defination of 'Blue' on thr web:-
Blue- of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke"
- used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line"
- blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue"
- blue clothing; "she was wearing blue"
- low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue"
- blasphemous: characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"
- blue sky: the sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into the blue"
- suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip"
- bluing: used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
- aristocratic: belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes"
- amobarbital sodium: the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
- blue(a): morally rigorous and strict; "blue laws"; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
- causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
- any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
- turn blue
Please remember this is a family site where some members are under 16, all entries are to comply the the usual gallery rules regarding decency.