Sunday, March 21, 2021

Contests in March

 You will probably have found these at other places, but I want to share them anyway:

 Frogmore Photo Contest 2021 

 March 5 - April 12  

SlUrl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Frogmore/186/41/36 

Flickr (rules/group): https://www.flickr.com/groups/14785199@N23/discuss/72157718479256426/ 

prices: 10Kl$ / 5Kl$ /2.5 Kl$

The following are entry and administration rules for our Frogmore 4.0 Photo Contest. Please read all the rules carefully as they have changed from last year.
1. Everyone is eligible to participate; you do not need to be a member of our Inworld Frogmore group, although group membership does have perks and our group is always free to join. All Frogmore group members do have Rezz Rights for any items needed for your photo. Also, all contest announcements are specifically made in our Inworld group first and can sometimes be delayed for announcement here on Flikr.
2. All photo entries must be taken at Frogmore on or after 1st of March, 2021.
3. Each contestant can have a maximum of 2 photos entered for this contest.
4. Photos are encouraged to artistically show the amazing sim design of Frogmore. Although avatars are allowed in the photo, all photos must include some aspect of our sim.
5. Although Frogmore 4.0 has many amazing new aspects and spots for your enjoyment, we have retained some of the previous design that members are so fond of. Your contest entries can include locations from the sim that are either new or previously existing; all parts of Frogmore are open to this competition.
6. Very important NEW this Year: Contest eligibility and any prizes awarded will require that you include Frogmore in your profile picks with a valid Landmark to our sim. No Exceptions.
7. All contest entries must be named correctly to be eligible. The format for naming your entry is as follow: Frogmore 4.0 Photo Contest 2021 Entry 1 (or 2) (name). Example for my entry: Frogmore 4.0 Photo Contest 2021 Entry 1 Tolla Crisp. You must include a valid second life name if your inworld name does not match your Flikr name. If we can not find you Inworld we will not consider you eligible for any prizes. All entries not named correctly will be rejected and we will not chase people around to ask you to please rename your entry. I will personally check the entry portal at least twice each day; if you do not see your photo in our contest group pool within 24 hours of posting you might want to check your photo name format. If you have any questions about the format please contact me directly either here in Flikr or Inworld @TollaCrisp.
8. All photos must be safe. No nudity. Our sim is Moderate and open to the public at all times.
9. As Frogmore is a Moderate sim we do expect that all of contest participants will follow any and all rules included in covenant. Please be sure you read it carefully.
10. Prizes. 1st Pace 10,000L, 2nd Place 5000L. 3rd Place, 2500L.
11. Our contest closes promptly on Monday, 12th of April, 2021.  


Photo Contest Luane's World Spring 2021 March 1st - April 1st
 
 
 

1st Prize: 7500 Linden 2nd Prize: 3500 Linden 3rd Prize: 1500 

RULES:

1. The picture has to be taken at ground level of any of the 4 sims (Slice of Heaven, Morning Glow, Tabara and Dreamers Retreat)

2. The photo MUST CLEARLY show the sims in a recognizable way and you may submit only one picture.

3. You need to have a Flickr account and post the pic in the Luane's World Flickr group: www.flickr.com/groups/luanes_world

Pictures have to be rated SAFE in Flickr to be considered. Make sure your pic can be added to a gallery

4. Your picture has to have the following as the start of the title:

LUANE'S WORLD PHOTO CONTEST Spring 2021 - (and then your title) plus a SLURL to the sim in the description.

5. Porn, obscenery, racism, child play, or violence is not accepted, and those pictures will be disqualified.

6. Only pictures published between March 1st and April 30th will be taken into consideration for the contest.

If any of the above criteria aren't met, the picture will be disqualified.

For rez right join the "Luane's World" group - find the group join link in the greeting message when you enter the sim, or here: secondlife:///app/group/883a26d3-c506-65c7-a759-30eed75f6d26/about

The contest ends on April 30th at midnight SL time.

The winners will be announced within 3 days after the contest ends.

 


 

Friday, March 19, 2021

Throughout the years.

 What has happened over the past ten - eleven years? How did we evolve in this second life? Did we quit, took a break, or started in complete new life, what would be the third or fourth life:)

Interesting questions to all the people I used to know, but had no contact with in the past years, although I never quit, but was maybe less active.

In any case, I found out that the pandemic brought some people back into sl, or at least being more active as before. 

I wasn't posting anything anymore on Flickr, but was still doing portrait photography for people who wanted a new profile picture. So my Photoshop "skills" were not in vain after all. But during those past years, I never had an active role, except of being a photographer once in a while, as that has always been my passion.

Since last year, I started to post pictures again on Flickr, but without confidence that this would be a new start for me. Slowly I got to meet new people, but also old acquaintances who came on my path.

In fact you can say that, since last year, my activity was increasing again, on Flickr and inworld.

I was invited to exhibit my work in some galleries, which I had not done since my Avatrait period. This gave me the faith again to continue working on my pictures, and other galleries gave me the opportunity to show my work.

For the past months, I was even the co-curator of a gallery again in Second life, but infortunately the cooperation ended premature.

So, that was my story of the last few years in a nutshell, but enough about me.

In the near future I hope to inform you on this blog about some interesting activities.

Again, I will have to ask you to stay tuned....

To be continued.....


Thursday, March 18, 2021

New adventures in the virtual world.

 After quite some years, I thought it might be a good idea to continue, or refresh this blog again.

Many years have passed, and I am sure, for a lot of you, things have changed too.

After being curator for the Avatrait Gallery, I have put this blog on hold, but new opportunities are coming, and I wanted to see if this would still be interesting to share with you.

Since Covid-19 has been spread all over the world, lots of people are working from home, and thus more time to spend in our virtual world.

Although I am still working at the office every day, and hope to stay safe there, I was thinking of updating this blog, and share with you the latest news of what will be coming up next.

I know this is rather vague, and that is why I ask you to stay tuned.....

To be continued.....