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Post by Low Light Mike on Jan 16, 2009 13:04:17 GMT -8
Announcement:
For the month of March 09, the flagship theme will be "Members' choice".
I'll set up a poll during the last week of January, to list the various themes that have been suggested during the past couple of weeks (I maybe have to edit or combine some similar suggestions, in order to keep the poll manageable).
Then we can vote for our favourite theme during the last week of January.........with the chosen theme's nominations happening during the month of February.
For those who need to work to a deadline: submit your theme-idea (yes, singular) by end of Jan.24th.
ps: we'll be honouring the Queen of the North (No, not the Princess Norah ;D) by way of a header-logo, not the full photo-banner.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jan 25, 2009 9:28:20 GMT -8
I'll set up a poll during the last week of January, to list the various themes that have been suggested during the past couple of weeks The poll to choose the March 09 THEME is now setup and open. Voting is allowed for 1 full week, ending 9:22am on Sunday Feb.1st.
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Post by Taxman on Jan 25, 2009 11:20:12 GMT -8
I am putting forth a lame suggestion. The Queen of Richmond. What I mean by this is a picture of a ferry that is artistically out of focus, or parts of the ferry have been used as a geometric pattern to the extent that the ferry itself is (except to a few members of the forum who could see a rust patch and know what ship it was) otherwise unrecogniseable. (While maintaining that it is a ferry).
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jan 25, 2009 13:21:09 GMT -8
I am putting forth a lame suggestion. The Queen of Richmond. What I mean by this is a picture of a ferry that is artistically out of focus, or parts of the ferry have been used as a geometric pattern to the extent that the ferry itself is (except to a few members of the forum who could see a rust patch and know what ship it was) otherwise unrecogniseable. (While maintaining that it is a ferry). Oh, I think you'll see the 'Richmond as the forum-flagship for at least 1 day, sometime this Spring. As to the general idea of an unrecognizable shot, that can be the first nominee for our next Members'-choice contest, sometime in the next 12 months. I think that we can break our moderator-rotation a few times each year and do a members'-choice theme month more than just once per year. Do you folks think that say 3-4 times per year for this type of exercise is ok?
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Post by Mike C on Sept 2, 2009 16:51:34 GMT -8
Well I've heard it suggested a few times, with no response, so I'll push for it again, and perhaps gain a little more attention.
ALBION FERRIES!
Flugel mentioned only tailoring to major news items. I think that the end of a 52 year commuter route justifies at least some sort of tribute. I know most of the mods live over on the island, and this probably isn't that important to them, but I live in Vancouver, and like most Vancouverites this was my childhood. It means the same to me as any BC Ferry.
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Post by lmtengs on Nov 15, 2009 13:29:36 GMT -8
Here's a file that I sometimes use to remember how to make my flagship pictures and signature pics. It has some suggestions and detailed instructions on how to get your pics ready when using Paint.Net as your photo editing program. The file is great for beginner photo editors and those with bad memories (aka me ) Attachments:filename (20 KB)
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Post by Low Light Mike on Nov 28, 2009 12:05:54 GMT -8
A general comment for those who nominate pictures and also vote:
- If you are doing 3 nominations and you are allowed 3 votes, please don't just vote for your own 3. Please take a bit more of a balanced action.
Consider voting for only 1 of your own, and then give your other votes to other worthy nominations.
Otherwise, if all the nominators only vote for their own, then really it's the non-nominators who have the balance of power.
Lets keep this from being silly.
ps: in a run-off ballot between say 2 or 3 pics, of course you should vote for your own, as there will only be 2 or 3 people who could do that, and then the rest of the voters will have a more diverse balance of power to make the real decision.
But situations where you nominate 3 pictures and then just automatically vote for your own 3 are pretty shallow.
=============== (this message inspired by last month's ballot, where through my moderator powers, I was able to see one person who allocated his/her 3 votes to his/her own 3 nominations. Maybe it's common practice for more than 1 person, who knows?).
What are your thoughts on this?
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Post by Barnacle on Nov 29, 2009 8:28:07 GMT -8
I see nothing wrong with the non-nominators having the majority of the voting power, myself. (Unless George W. Bush is running again, of course.) There are only a handful of applicants to the poll each month (and they're usually the same people who have the most extensive photo collection), but I've noticed there's usually about twice the number of actual people voting.
Yes, just submitting three and voting for your own three is kind of shallow, unless you honestly feel that your submissions are the best. But then, I suspect there are people on this forum who do take a certain amount of pride in having their submissions take the election, just like some forums have people cranking up their post counts with replies that don't say anything more than "LOL". It's in the nature of forums (forii?).
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Post by Low Light Mike on Dec 29, 2009 10:34:39 GMT -8
2 Items of advance-warning:
1) February 2010's theme will be "Olympic" (that's singular, not plural). - A ship named Olympic (Puget Sound has seen 2 of these) - A mountain range or peninsula that's prominent in a ferry picture (this is harder to do, but you might have something. Use your judgment, to make it work)
The banner will need to only say " ___ Olympic ___" (ie "MV Olympic", "Olympic Mountain Range" , but not "February 2010". No rings, no "Olympics" stuff, just obvious script that lets us enjoy a fun moment of free speech and ferries.
We'll have more details and specifics later. Feel free to ask your questions and give your criteria ideas now, in this here thread.
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2) The next month that it's my regular flagship choice (later this Spring), I'm thinking of doing a theme of "ferry pictures taken from shore or wharf/floats at Horseshoe Bay village". ie the criteria is the location of the photographer, not a specific ferry (although a ferry needs to be prominent). - So if you are around Sewell's, the seawall at HSB or on the other village wharves/floats, take some banner-size pics of a ferry at HSB, from that vantage point. (no photos from a ferry or boat or from the BCF terminal property)
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Post by lmtengs on Dec 29, 2009 13:08:38 GMT -8
I've been thinking a cool theme for the future is photos taken of and from the vehicle decks of ferries with open-topped vehicle decks, like the K-class ferries, or from the open topped portion of the Island Sky or Queen of Cap/Cumby's car-decks.
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Post by EGfleet on Dec 31, 2009 15:04:11 GMT -8
2 Items of advance-warning: 1) February 2010's theme will be "Olympic" (that's singular, not plural). - A ship named Olympic (Puget Sound has seen 2 of these) - A mountain range or peninsula that's prominent in a ferry picture (this is harder to do, but you might have something. Use your judgment, to make it work) The banner will need to only say " ___ Olympic ___" (ie "MV Olympic", "Olympic Mountain Range" , but not "February 2010". No rings, no "Olympic s" stuff, just obvious script that lets us enjoy a fun moment of free speech and ferries. We'll have more details and specifics later. Feel free to ask your questions and give your criteria ideas now, in this here thread. ================= 2) The next month that it's my regular flagship choice (later this Spring), I'm thinking of doing a theme of "ferry pictures taken from shore or wharf/floats at Horseshoe Bay village". ie the criteria is the location of the photographer, not a specific ferry (although a ferry needs to be prominent). - So if you are around Sewell's, the seawall at HSB or on the other village wharves/floats, take some banner-size pics of a ferry at HSB, from that vantage point. (no photos from a ferry or boat or from the BCF terminal property) So...something like this is okay... (and these are examples, not submissions) But not this:
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Post by Low Light Mike on Dec 31, 2009 17:29:10 GMT -8
But not this: Correct. The 2nd pic has no ferry, so it's not a forum banner For the first pic, I was hoping that the ferry would be more prominent (ie larger). That's why a ferry & mountain pic is hard to do, although we do it with Baker, Ranier and Garibaldi......
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Post by EGfleet on Jan 1, 2010 10:13:05 GMT -8
But not this: Correct. The 2nd pic has no ferry, so it's not a forum banner For the first pic, I was hoping that the ferry would be more prominent (ie larger). That's why a ferry & mountain pic is hard to do, although we do it with Baker, Ranier and Garibaldi...... ...and it is why I decided to use it as an example, rather than a submission. It's kind of a neat postcard, but for purposes here, not so good.
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Kam
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Post by Kam on Jan 3, 2010 11:12:47 GMT -8
I have a suggestion!
With so many great entries for the banner each month, it always seams a shame to only see one for an entire month.
Why not set up the banner to automatically reload multiple images, that way we can vote in the top, say, 5 banners and each time you reload the page you get to see a different one. (All on the same theme of course, just a bit of variety)
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Post by lmtengs on Jan 3, 2010 13:07:59 GMT -8
we can vote in the top, say, 5 banners and each time you reload the page you get to see a different one. I think top three would be better. We usually only vote for three, so I'm thinking it would make more sense to only have the top 3 up there. Good idea though
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Post by Retrovision on Jan 3, 2010 13:19:14 GMT -8
I have a suggestion! With so many great entries for the banner each month, it always seams a shame to only see one for an entire month. Why not set up the banner to automatically reload multiple images, that way we can vote in the top, say, 5 banners and each time you reload the page you get to see a different one. (All on the same theme of course, just a bit of variety) I hadn't thought of such an idea before and wish that I had. If conceivable though, I think that it could help promote interest in the contest and our forum.
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Kam
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Post by Kam on Jan 3, 2010 18:15:06 GMT -8
it may take a little off site html to make it go, but i'm sure it could be done. I have a similar setup on a few sites I look after.
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Post by Curtis on May 2, 2010 18:33:02 GMT -8
I've been thinking about this for awhile, being as the next Flagship Month takes us through BC Ferries' 50th. Now it is a real no-brain decision of what vessel class should be picked next month, but I have a proposal for your consideration. What if we had a contest where no one particular ferry was the subject, but a collage of many different BC Ferries was featured. Such a collage might look something like this... (A cleaned up version of this draft image will be my sig from Mid-May to Mid-June.) I'm just speaking out loud about this, but personally, it might be fun to see what the forum can come up with. This is the 50th Anniversary of BC Ferries after all. Of course, we could always just have the Sidney and Tsawwassen as our flagship, but that's really up to the Moderator who picks June's flagship.
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Post by lmtengs on Nov 8, 2010 22:06:32 GMT -8
Just an idea: BCF vessels once they've been sold, or before BCF bought them. So, for example, the QoSidney where she is now, the QoTsawwassen wherever she's been after retirement, the Queen of the Islands as the fishing lodge or the breakwater, or the Suzie Q after she was sold. Also eligible would be the NorAd as Sonia or any other name she's carried, or the QoChilliwack as Basto. The Suzy Q as Vacationland, or some of BCF's earlier ships, like the original Kahloke, in it's black ball livery, or the T-class ships in their yellow BC ministry of transport colours. I think the QoBurnaby would count too, when she was serving for other companies in the '90s. So any ship that sails or has sailed with BCF during a period that they were not with BCF. I'd support that, would everyone else? Edit to post: I just realized this limits us to only BCF vessels... silly me... I think that WSF vessels and Alaska Marine Highway vessels should be allowed too, in the sense of, for example, the Steel E's in their San Fransisco scheme, or any Washington State Ferries painted in Black Ball colours. For Alaska, I'm not too sure how many ferries would work for this, but there's always the Wickersham painted in her Stena Line colours, or painted however she was after leaving AMHS.
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Post by Barnacle on Nov 28, 2010 9:18:14 GMT -8
Hmm. That's an interesting concept. I would also like to suggest 'Same Name, Previous Vessel.' I admit this opens the field much more to the southern contingent than BC Ferries, but hey. We've gone international.
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Post by lmtengs on Dec 3, 2010 17:02:13 GMT -8
Another suggestion, this one coming from the foodie in me...
Ferry Food!
The picture would have to consist of ferry food, along with some kind of identification that it is indeed ferry food, like a ferry company plate that the food is sitting on, or a hamburger wrapper, like the checkered ones that are oh so iconic to BCF's burgers. Just something along those lines.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Dec 18, 2010 20:50:22 GMT -8
I'm considering using the new Chetzemoka ferry as the theme for the flagship for the month of February (nominations happening during January).
It would likely be open for in-service photos as well as sea-trial photos. ie. floating and under her own power.
Let me know if you think this is too early for this ship as a theme, in terms of readily available photographs by our members.
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Nick
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Post by Nick on Feb 6, 2011 20:52:24 GMT -8
I've been noticing that many of the shots we've seen recently as the flagship seem to have the same sort of "feel" to them. They are all just pictures of ships, with nothing particularly distinctive other than the ship itself. I guess I'm looking for something taken with a bit more thought into it other than "ooh I feel like taking a picture of that".
I've read back a bit in this thread and there were a few suggestions that we haven't seen yet. One Quatchi mentioned that I kinda liked was "Bow waves and wakes". It's a bit more artistic than the standard profile or quarter shot we've been seeing for the past while. Another one that I think we might have done already, but has a lot of potential still is "Scenes FROM a ferry".
I guess what I'm trying to say with all this is maybe we should look at doing something a bit more abstract from the standard "here's my ship" shots. What do you think? I'm interested in hearing opinions.
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Post by lmtengs on Feb 6, 2011 20:55:58 GMT -8
I've been noticing that many of the shots we've seen recently as the flagship seem to have the same sort of "feel" to them. They are all just pictures of ships, with nothing particularly distinctive other than the ship itself. I guess I'm looking for something taken with a bit more thought into it other than "ooh I feel like taking a picture of that". I've read back a bit in this thread and there were a few suggestions that we haven't seen yet. One Quatchi mentioned that I kinda liked was "Bow waves and wakes". It's a bit more artistic than the standard profile or quarter shot we've been seeing for the past while. Another one that I think we might have done already, but has a lot of potential still is "Scenes FROM a ferry". I guess what I'm trying to say with all this is maybe we should look at doing something a bit more abstract from the standard "here's my ship" shots. What do you think? I'm interested in hearing opinions. I support that entirely, as long as it still purveys the message that the forum is a ferry-forum, not a geographical feature forum. So what I'm saying, is we'd still need a fair bit of ferry, ferry terminal, or ferry-structure in the submitted photo.
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Quatchi
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Post by Quatchi on Feb 6, 2011 21:13:15 GMT -8
I support that entirely, as long as it still purveys the message that the forum is a ferry-forum, not a geographical feature forum. So what I'm saying, is we'd still need a fair bit of ferry, ferry terminal, or ferry-structure in the submitted photo. We don't need a ship in it, we need the west coast, the forum isn't just about the ships, its also about the communities and geography that demand the ships. Quite frankly if we didn't have the geography we wouldn't have the ships, therefore no forum. Any setting as long as it is near or in the area of a ferry route is quite acceptable in my opinion. If you put a title on the image it wont confuse people. Assuming it is related to the ferry environment. I would love to see less emphasis on the ships themselves and on the companies themselves and more on the beauty of the marine environment itself. To push for more artistic shots than just ship shots. Cheers,
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