Unframed-Nature's Next BIG Contest!

Welcome to Unframed-Nature's Next BIG Contest

Autumn THEME 2013: "The Strangest and Spookiest Tree"

As Nature Lovers, I am sure most of us LOVE trees!

Not only do we love them, but from that love, we want to protect them, their beauty and all of their multitude of benefits for our planet, whenever this is possible.

Let us combine this total compassion and understanding for trees, with some seasonal or holiday FUN, and think about, go out and find, create, or imagine the strangest or spookiest tree you know of, and express it in the medium of your choice!

Ask Yourself:

• Do you know of a really odd looking tree?

• Do you know of a tree that is really different in appearance, maybe one that has some creepy-shaped branches?

• If not, and therefore you don't feel you could photograph such a tree, could you draw one?

• Paint one? Traditionally, or Digitally? WRITE ABOUT ONE?? Make one as a fractal? Make a Photo-manipulation?

We are an All-Media group, and therefore ALL Media is welcomed to this Contest, as always, in the past.
Such a wide variety of media would truly be EXCELLENT for this Contest, such as, but NOT limited to:

• Traditional- for example, A Drawing or Painting of a very strange or spooky Tree, or the use of Typography!

• Photography- for example, Photojournalism about a known strange or spooky looking Tree, some strange looking Conceptual Tree, or a Spooky Abstract of a Tree, or simply under Plants: A photograph of a really strange and spooky tree!

• Literature- Feel free to WRITE about a strange and spooky Tree- for example Poetry, Essays, Visual Poetry, Etc.

• Flash- for example Animations, Movies, of some really bizarre and haunted looking trees blowing in the wind...

• Digital- for example Typography, Photo-manipulations Fractals, Mixed Media, would ALL work in conveying some really unique and scary trees!

• This list is not necessarily complete; other Media, may also work, as long as, YOU CREATED IT, and it is about a strange and spooky tree!

RULES

ONE Entry per Group Member.
MUST be a Member to Enter- Feel free to Join, by clicking the JOIN Button!
Starts: Tuesday, OCT. 1st; Ends: Tuesday, NOV. 5th, 2013 midnight, PST: wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time…
[ 5 weeks long! No Extensions ]
Entry may be NEW or OLD, as long as it has NOT already been submitted to the Group.
ALL-MEDIA welcome as always- see above section for details- as long as the THEME is clearly expressed or stated in some obvious way.
To MOST clearly express the theme, the artist would convey ONE (1) SINGLE TREE.  
NOT a whole forest. There could be another tree or two somewhere within the deviation... preferably somewhere in the background, but the main point is, we should be able to CLEARLY know WHICH TREE is the STRANGE and SPOOKY tree!

Additionally, there could be other Nature elements within the submission... like birds, water, a bear, a cat, a bat, a pumpkin, etc., ... BUT THE FOCUS MUST BE ON THAT STRANGE AND SPOOKY TREE!.

A submission with a strange or spooky tree with a human, or a house, or a jack o' lantern, Etc., will ONLY be accepted IF THE TREE IS THE MAIN SUBJECT.  
These other elements must be of much smaller significance.

This contest is about one WHOLE tree whether you WRITE about it, or whether it is a visual submission, where we would want to SEE the WHOLE tree, as in part of a 'Scape.

This is not about a branch, or a trunk, or a leaf- or any single CLOSE-UP, of PART of a tree.

DO, Place in the Artist Comments of your Entry,
stating that your entry is for : devunframed-nature : 's "The Strangest & Spookiest Tree" Contest

Take out the spaces around devunframed-nature, so that the group can be clicked on.

AND, then, place the Link or THUMBCODE of THIS Contest Journal, here, in the "Artist Comments" of your submission.

THIS IS A VERY, VERY, VERY IMPORTANT RULE!


If you do NOT follow this rule, first, Admins., will leave you a COMMENT on your Entry to give you a chance to correct this, but if we don't hear back from you in a few days, it will be declined.

Must adhere to all other general rules of our group.  

As always, NO violence, gore, or blood- NO Mature Content!





Entries
View Entries and Submit Entries:
THE STRANGEST AND SPOOKIEST TREE


Judging

There will be a panel of judges from a variety of artistic backgrounds, unrelated to our group- [non-members].

Judging will take place from: Nov 7th - Nov. 15th
Results should hopefully follow by: Nov 21st.

Judges will vote based on:
1. The QUALITY of your work within your medium of choice.
2. How CLOSELY you are able to follow and express the THEME.


JUDGES

1. SavageFrog
2. Celvas
3.  rainylake
4. wingsofdragons
5. marthig
6.  SimplySilent
7.  Stygma
8. TheGalleryOfEve
9.  iingo
10.  WDWParksGal
11.  Icesis
12.  PizzaPotatoNBacon
13.  Lintu47
14. O-Gosh
15.  Riemea
16. HrWPhotography
17. seven-s
18. cowboyB0B
19. VisualPoetress
20.





PRIZES

FIRST -

1,020 - from: Our Group's Points Pool @ Unframed-Nature-PTS
50 - from SilkenWinds