The theme for the B&H Photo Contest is:

"People and Nature: Mutual Influence"
Show man's influence on nature, nature's influence on man, or man's presence in nature in your photographs. Be creative!

As a reminder, the winner will be awarded a $200 prize from B&H photo.

Rules for this contest:

• One photo may be submitted per user
• The photo must be taken between July 6, 2010 and August 1, 2010 (inclusive)
• EXIF information must not be stripped. If none is present, please specify camera, date, and location.
• Submissions that do not conform to the contest theme will be disqualified
• Submissions must be uploaded to our special gallery section here
• Maximum filesize is 1.5Mb; there are no restrictions on resolution.
• Photos that are disqualified will be moved to the disqualified sub-category in the gallery. You may upload another photo if your initial submission was disqualified. Note that only photos not taken during the contest period, or not matching the theme, are disqualified.

Good luck! We will close for uploads on August 2nd.

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[Nesster]

Based on the rules, I take it has to be a digital camera, but not necessarily Pentax?

[Adam]

Film & digital are allowed: there are no restrictions there

[nicholaspaul]

I would rather hope that preference would go to a photo taken with a Pentax. Of course, with film there's no way to tell.

[jmac920]

This wasn't even a candidate in the voting. if you are just going to choose a topic, why go through the farce of a nominations and a vote?

[Adam]

Nature & The Environment was chosen as the general category in the poll- that's what this contest is about, with a non-trivial approach.

[manishved]

The title and description are contradictory -
Title: Man versus Nature
Description: Show man's influence on nature or nature's influence on man in your photographs.

So how do the judges judge? More points for versus or influence?

[Adam]

I don't see how that conflicts, but I'm open to clearer wording if some can be suggested.

BTW, there are no judges for this contest- we'll be voting for the winner as a forum.

[ltdstar]

So does it have to be shot with a Pentax camera?

[stevebrot]

Film & digital are allowed: there are no restrictions there

So, how do I fudge the exif from my scanner?


Steve

[adwb]

This wasn't even a candidate in the voting. if you are just going to choose a topic, why go through the farce of a nominations and a vote?

I agree this does not even come close to what we voted on what a farce.

[Tim_R]

Why complain? Post your entry and see if the rest of us consider you a winner. I'll be back later with my entry.

Tim

[CGottfried]

I don't see how that conflicts, but I'm open to clearer wording if some can be suggested.

BTW, there are no judges for this contest- we'll be voting for the winner as a forum.

My objection would be the word versus, which assumes opposition. It implies that it would be okay to have a guy holding up the carcass of some animal (as opposed to a woman holding the carcass) but not a photo of a person feeding an animal or planting a tree.

Why not "People and Nature"? Or "People and Nature: Mutual Influence"? Or something like that?

[m8o]

This wasn't even a candidate in the voting. if you are just going to choose a topic, why go through the farce of a nominations and a vote?

I agree this does not even come close to what we voted on what a farce.

There's plenty that don't agree w/either of you. I think 'how' we got to this topic is just fine.

[stillshunter]

Jeez guys! What you're niggling on the topic? Just focus your frustration squarely between the 1/4 of an inch viewfinder and the tip of your trigger finger.

Brief is clear - Man vs Nature....Anyway, I thought vision and interpretation were a major part of the photographer's trade.

I wouldn't care if the brief was "Tutus, eggbeaters and a truck driver" in a single frame. It's $200 and it's a challenge!! I'm not sure which part is confusing.