Black History Month book pile contest
I'm looking for book-pile photographs representing Martin Luther King Day and Black History Month. Do you have a lot of books on the topic?
I did a general book pile photo contest earlier (see winners and all submissions on Flickr). It was fun. I want themed bookpiles to become a regular thing on LibraryThing, much the way Google's logo changes for special occasions.
The rules:
UPDATE: Some speed issues remain but the crashing issue is mostly solved. I've fixed a number of things and added a few features. I'll blog about them soon.
I did a general book pile photo contest earlier (see winners and all submissions on Flickr). It was fun. I want themed bookpiles to become a regular thing on LibraryThing, much the way Google's logo changes for special occasions.
The rules:
- Take a photo of a pile of books. I favor piles with easy-to-remove backgrounds and legible titles. See previous winners for what I favored.
- Post it to Flickr tagged "librarything" and "blackhistorymonth." If you must send me files, send them to timspalding gmail.com.
- Winner gets a free one-year gift subscription, to use or give to someone else.
- I'd love to close it in time for MLK day, but that may be too early.
- By participating LibraryThing gets rights to use the photo for promotional purposes, with acknowledgment.
UPDATE: Some speed issues remain but the crashing issue is mostly solved. I've fixed a number of things and added a few features. I'll blog about them soon.
7 Comments:
Great idea! But MKL Day is the day after tomorrow! Definitely a tad early.
I can't enter (I'm still a Luddite when it comes to cameras), but I enjoyed the photos from your previous contest, and I like the idea of having new ones similar to the Google logos.
I'd like to work on themed piles, but I don't know if I have the books. Maybe I'll raid the library sale table sometime...
I'm going to try my hand at this this morning. I'm not sure how they'll turn out yet, so I may or may not be posting the results later on. :-)
Ok, I posted a few. They're not exactly the best shining examples of what this sort of book pile ought to be--and I'm not a Photoshop Wizard-- but it's all I got. :-)
One pile has some books that at first glance might not seem to belong, but to me, I think they do, in one way or another.
Those are nice! Good selection, very legible and even clipped from their surroundings!
Thank you! :-)
Cool! I gave it a shot, though since I had to newly sign up for flickr to add them, I'm not sure if they're showing up under the tag search yet.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66807297@N00/
At first I worried about how beat up some of the books looked (not very professional) but decided to embrace the wabi sabi: it's a pile of read, reread, re-reread books... they should look a bit worn!
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