Condor Watch Talk

-=-=- The First Annual "Best 2014 CondorWatch Photos" Contest -=-=-

  • wreness by wreness moderator

      • Announcing the First Annual Best 2014 CondorWatch Photos Contest

    2014 marks the first year CondorWatch joined Zooniverse and we would like to take the opportunity
    to thank all the Citizen Scientists who put in all the time and hard work tirelessly squinting into their
    monitors at carcasses, unidentified parts, angry pigs, various butts, tipped camera angles, vicious battles, fog and
    yes! beautiful condors to classify the data for us!

    Who could have imagined the incredible variety of situations, animals and emotions the cameras have captured?

    To celebrate we'd like to invite you to take part in helping find what you think were the Best Photos of 2014 for the CondorWatch Photo Contest. Woohoo!

    These are the categories for the photos. We want you to enter photos for each category - you can enter up to 3 photos per category! We hope they capture the majesty of the condors and also the humor that abounds on the site.

    Categories:

    1] Most Beautiful Condor Photo

    2] Most Beautiful Condors photo (more than one in a photo)

    3] Best Action Photo (Condors)

    4] Best "Something Else" Photo

    5] Best "What The Heck Is That?" Photo

    6] Best Coyote(s)

    7] Most Disgusting Photo (oh we know what that will be)

    8] Best Eagle Photo

    9] Best Turkey Vulture(s)

    10] Funniest Photo

    11] Best Cooperating Birds - Clearest Tags

    12] Craziest Ravens

    13] Best Photo Bomb

    14] Happiest/Proudest Condor

    15] Condor(s) With The Worst Attitude

    16] What Were They Thinking?

    17] BONUS CATEGORY!
    Your Own Favorite Random
    Find a Funny, Bizarre or Strange Photo and Give It Your Own Category

    The Scientists will then pick the winners based on if you Amuse And Entertain them and make them spit their coffee out of their noses, laughing. (No vulgarity! Behave or else!)


    • How to Instructions:

    Look though the photos on the CondorWatch site to find your favorites for the listed categories below. You may enter 3 photos per category.

    When you find the photos you want to enter, copy and paste the IMAGE NUMBER of the photo, found in the upper left corner of each photo) next to the category, next to the category

    enter image description here

    An example, then, of an entry for Best action Photo might look like:

    3} Best action Photo: (3 choices)

    Image ACW00045qp
    Image ACW0003rgr
    Image ACW00051jk

    The Image number we ask you to enter comes from the entire URL of the Zooniverse page that the image is on. For example http://talk.condorwatch.org/#/subjects/ACW00045qp would be the first entry's page.

    When you're done with your list of entries send your completed list, via the Zoo Talk message system, to
    CondorWatch Moderator @wreness


    You can find the best photos of the site in the CondorWatch Citizen Scientist's Collections, since they have been saving all the great photos the last 8 months CondorWatch has been on Zoo!

    Click on a person's name to go to their Profile Page and at the very bottom are their Collections. Names can be found on the message board posts and photo comments and also be found using the Search feature. The Image numbers can be seen in the bottom right corner each Collection thumbnail photo but they can be clicked to open up to full size but you can look through the whole Collection by magnifying your page and noting the Image Numbers this way.

    enter image description here

    On the upper right side of the Collection page is a scroll bar to forward though the pages. You can also use the SEARCH feature at the top of the page to look for specific animals. This will only work once (the search feature doesn't work too well right now) so to use multiple times, Refresh the entire page then re-enter your search word to use again

    Contest runs from Dec. 31th to Jan 30th (8pm CT USA)

    Winners will be announced here on the message boards and shared with our Facebook followers, Flickr & Photobucket pages ASAP also!

    Please enter only once.

    Most of all, have fun and as always, carrion!

    Thank you for all your wonderful work and ideas this year. We couldn't be where we are without you!

    Posted