****FALL CONTEST****Submissions Thread! NOW CLOSED

Okay, it's December 1st, that means it is time for our FALL (or, if you prefer, AUTUMN) contest to begin! Fall...it includes the changing of the seasons, turning of the leaves and weather, the harvest, holidays, football, back to school, anything that happens during the Fall season. Anyone can enter the contest as long as their photo is FALL oriented.

This submission thread will be open until 6 AM Eastern Time Monday December 8th or we have 30 entries, whichever comes first. I will try to have the Preliminaries up later sometime during the 8th. The Finals will start Friday December 12 and the winner will be announced Monday December 15 (theses later dates may be approximate, as I will be on the road during the second half of the contest and my computer access will be somewhat limited).

Please post your comments and/or any questions you may have about the contest in this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/103637643

Okay, the rules...

The winner of the seasonal contest agrees to host the next seasonal contest or recruit someone else to host the contest.

Only one entry per person. You need to post your entry in the submission thread started by the Host of the contest. (That's this thread, yes this one right here!) Please be sure to include a "Title" for your photograph in the Subject line of your post. The submission thread is for photo entries only, no comments or questions. I will start a separate thread just for comments and/or questions.

The Host (yours truly) is allowed to enter the Seasonal Contest.

There will be no extra rules on the Seasonal Contest beyond keeping your entry no larger than 800 pixels in its longest dimension and under 300K in file size. I'm going to be a little more open and allow photo editing and effects, as long as it's a reasonable amount and your photo looks like a photograph instead of a digital design or a magazine layout. If you aren’t sure what that entails, ask or PM me or ask the group in a separate thread. I'm sure people will get plenty of feedback to specific questions.
If you need help posting a photograph or with image sizing, just ask.

And now this:

CONTEST LICENSE:

An entrant to this contest, by submitting a photograph, is giving permission for that photograph to be copied to Demopedia or to a linked Gallery and included in a DU Calendar that will display the photographs entered for this contest for the purpose of publicizing future contests and/or commemorating current and past contests. The entrant retains all other rights to the photograph being submitted. Neither Demopedia and/or a linked Gallery may use any photograph submitted for any purpose other than to display the photograph being submitted by the entrant, and neither gains any real or implied ownership rights to the photograph.