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Get up and get active for our next challenge! There’s something about capturing the moment of an air-bound subject that evokes a sense of joy, excitement or perhaps anxiety. For the next challenge practice catching movement from an intriguing angle and/or fast shutter speed. You may want to review some Pro Tips for help in catching your subject in action: Shutter Speed, Cropping and Burst Mode.

OFFICIAL ENTRY RULES
To officially enter the Creative Challenge, you must tag your three submissions with creative-challenge-jump. You can then view them and everyone else’s submissions on the DISPLAY PAGE (it updates about every hour). To find out more about this, read the Using Tags on Creative Challenges post.

Submission Guidelines
1. Our editors look for sharp, clear horizontal images that are at a minimum resolution of 800×600 (submissions can have larger resolutions than this). Currently, vertical images cannot fit in the homepage template. Therefore, we cannot publish vertical or narrow panoramic images.

2. Images with added text or images, including watermarks, logos, copyright symbols, graphic borders, frames and time stamps, will not be considered for first place or being featured on the homepage at a later date. Collages, however, are acceptable. Images submitted should be your own.

3. Please do not submit pictures that have already been featured on the homepage.

4. The Creative Challenge runs from 12:01 a.m. on November 11 to 12:00 p.m. on November 23 (all times EST).

5. 3 pictures per person (regardless of how many member accounts you have) tagged exactly (including hyphens) with: creative-challenge-jump

*Note:Images that don’t meet the exact guidelines can be submitted and viewed for everyone to enjoy, but please understand that we cannot publish images that don’t meet minimum guidelines on the homepage. Also, now that you’re tagging your entries, you don’t need to post links in the comments section anymore.

NEXT CHALLENGE THEME: To Be Determined
We’re sorry to say the creative challenge will be put on a temporary leave over the next couple weeks. The staff is working full-time (and then some!) on a brand new design for Pro Shots which will be going live in the next month (yay!). We’re very excited about the new site, and hope you’ll love it as much as we do .

The Challenge should be back in a matter of weeks – you may not get as much advanced notice for the next one, but I’m hopeful that we can have one for you on the 25th.

Rule #1 when judging a food-related Creative Challenge: Don’t do it hungry! The mouth-watering photos featured in the Creative Challenge: In My Kitchen look good enough to eat. Not only are you many of you great photographers, but you’re also amazing cooks. I will be contacting several of you for recipes. Here are the top photos:

#1. Red, White, Blue by member camera_man. Congrats to member camera_man for his well-executed martini display! We’ll feature your photo on the homepage tomorrow.

#2. By member xenia154. Great subject, and it looks so professional (and delicious)!

#3. By member photoplo. Are these from Hell’s Kitchen?

#4. By member peg353. You have to tell us how you did this!

#5. By member akla1. One editor said, “It makes me want to lick the screen!”

#6. By member ewabe. Love the textures!

#7. By member ldeiter78. Was this inspired by our Creative Challenge: Ode to Edward Weston?

#8. By member RonZphotography. Great macro!

Thanks to all our members for participating in this Challenge. To see all the entries, check out the DISPLAY PAGE.

We’re happy to announce the addition of ReCaptcha on Webshots! As you know, we’ve been working on a solution for spam on the site, and several members even suggested implementing this tool, so we hope you’ll be as happy as we are to have it.

ReCaptcha is a well-known and trusted program utilized by over 100,000 websites. What does ReCaptcha mean to you?

Now, when you leave a comment on a photo, album, member message or in feedback, you’ll be asked to type in two words generated by ReCaptcha before submitting your comment.

ReCaptcha won’t stop all spam on the site, but it should help with the majority of the problem, and we’ll continue to work on the issue.

Photo walks, a popular activity among photo-sharing communities, let us all be a part of something no matter where we are in the world. By taking a walk this weekend and sharing the pictures with us, you’re contributing to a global mural of life.

So put on your walking shoes, grab your camera and go for a walk. You’ll be surprised at the photographic opportunities that present themselves. We’d love to see all of your photos as you can submit as many as you like!

Please tag your photos with Weekend Photo Walk 102 and then post your links in the comment section. Your entries won’t be judged—this is just for the fun of it!

To celebrate the launch of the new Webshots store, we’re giving away a FREE 16 oz. photo mug*!

Create your mug today with your personal photos uploaded to Webshots! You can also use your Webshots friends’ photos on your photos gifts (if they have that option selected). Be sure to enter coupon code FREEMUG at checkout.

Our new store is powered by American Greetings PhotoWorks, so it’s now easier than ever to order prints and photos gifts for the holiday season.

We’re celebrating all month long with free gifts and special discounts, so stay tuned to the Webshots blog, and sign up for the Store Newsletter to get exclusive offers!

*Shipping & tax not included. Limit one free 16 oz. mug per person. Coupon code FREEMUG must be entered at checkout. While supplies last.