From the monthly archives:

January 2007

Photo Contest Entry Example

Thank you for taking a few minutes to read through this tutorial. It will (hopefully!) answer any questions you might have about how to upload your photos into our weekly photo challenges. Please remember that each week there is usually just one photo challenge. Each participant is allowed to enter only one family-friendly photo each week. [...]

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Process of Choosing the Winning Photos

We go through every single entry each week and save each person’s photo to our computers (photos are then deleted each week after the winners photos are picked by the judge). We use these photos that week to send out the very best of the best to the weekly Guest Photographer Judge for them to [...]

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Why We Let Professionals Enter Our Contests

When we first came up with the idea of I Heart Faces, we were fairly certain that beginner and amateur photographers would be interested in playing along with us…but we weren’t so sure if professionals would be interested. We were thrilled beyond belief when we had not only a few, but quite a lot, of [...]

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Winning the I Heart Faces Photo Contest

We want to try to approach this subject as softly and gently as we can, because we realize that it can be upsetting to some to never “win” one of our weekly challenges. That said, we do need to emphasize this. If you are joining in on our contests and your main purpose (or your [...]

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Photo Contest Guidelines

We do have some specific guidelines that we ask our participants to follow… #1 – Enter the  permalink to your blog post (not to the home page of your blog) This is an absolute “must do” for us. If you enter the link to the home page of your blog (instead of your permalink), ten [...]

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Finding the Linky Tool

What is a Linky Tool? Linky Tool is a free program we use that allows each participant to enter their name and a link to their photo entry. Where is it? You can find the Linky Tool on our site each Monday that we host a themed photography contest.  You need to click into the [...]

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FAQ’s – Changing Your Entry Photo

Our policy is that once you enter a photo into our photo challenge, that’s the photo entry you are stuck with. There are two reasons why we have this policy: 1) We start going through all of the I Heart Faces entries beginning early on Monday morning. All of the photos that we think the judge [...]

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