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New Featured Images Contest

Nataly — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:55:00 GMT

We are reopening submissions for more candidate photos to be featured on our Home page. This time, our theme is All About Light.

We are looking for images that are striking because of their use of light, natural or artificial, witnessed or controlled. We will accept a lot of flexibility in the subject but the light must 'make the shot'.

Submit your photos by replying to the forum thread. The submission deadline is Monday, September 28, 11:59 p.m.

The rules and requirements are listed in this forum post. We are looking forward to seeing many wonderful works by Zenfolio photographers!

Featured images for Zenfolio homepage - new contest open

Vitas [Zenfolio] — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:14:00 GMT

We are reopening submissions for more candidate photos to be featured on our Home page.

You can find more details and submit your photos in this forums post.

The theme is Winter and Holiday Season, and the deadline to submit your photos is Friday, November 30th

The top 10 winners will be featured on our Home page.

We are looking forward to seeing more wonderful images from you! You can see the finalists from our previous contest in this collection.

Featured photos for our homepage - call for submissions

Vitas [Zenfolio] — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:40:00 GMT

We are looking for submissions of photographs that can be featured on the Zenfolio.com front page.

For the next two weeks we are asking you to send us links to photos that you feel should be featured. Our creative staff will review the submissions, pick 20 candidates, and will post them for further voting. The top ten photos that receive the most votes will be featured on the Zenfolio.com front page (given owners’ permissions, of course).

Photos featured on the front page usually get a lot of views and clicks to the owner’s galleries so it is a great way to get good publicity.

Submission guidelines

1. ORIGINALITY. The photographs should be dramatic, original, and unique. They should make people stop, stare, and want to explore more work by the author. Yes, you can submit your own photos, if you’d like.

2. HORIZONTAL ORIENTATION. Photos need to have horizontal orientation with an approximate aspect ratio of 6 x 4. This is due to the layout of our main page where vertical or square images will not work well.

3. ZENNY. We like images that play well with the overall design of our Web site. Subjects on white background work especially well. Black and white photography is always welcome. Also, images with orange, and blue colors compliment our color palette.

4. APPROPRIATE. We are looking for a variety of content. Portraits, nature, wildlife, pets, studio work, objects – anything goes! However, it goes without saying that the content should be appropriate for our front page.

How to send us your proposals:

1. Find the photograph that you like on Zenfolio

2. Click the Send Link button located in the top-right section of the screen

3. Copy the address of the photograph and paste it in the reply to this forum post. It would be preferred if you can include a brief explanation of your pick.