Creative Challenge: Sunrise

Filed under: Just For Fun, Creative Challenge — Jessica, Community Muse at 12:01 am on Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Sunrise

The early bird gets the worm…so set your alarm clocks and take your best sunrise shot! Check out our tips on photographing sunrises, and get inspired by the beautiful sunrise photos already uploaded by Webshots members.

OFFICIAL ENTRY RULES
To officially enter the Creative Challenge, you must tag your three submissions with creative-challenge-sunrise. 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. Collages, however, are acceptable.

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 January 30 to 3:00 p.m. on February 4 (all times PST).

5. 3 pictures per member tagged exactly (including hyphens) with: creative-challenge-sunrise

*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 WEEK’S THEME: Symmetry
Artistically, symmetry is a sense of harmonious or aesthetically pleasing proportionality and balance such that it reflects beauty or perfection. For this Creative Challenge, put on your composition hat and find the beauty in balance.

78 Comments

Comment by Shlomo

January 30, 2008 @ 1:09 am

For My Third Entry I Have No Idea What to add i have a lots of albums of sunrise this link is just the latest one

http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/562305028shRBJp?vhost=outdoors

Comment by Kelvin Wright

January 30, 2008 @ 2:03 am

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2547920570048427385BUFusm?vhost=outdoors

Comment by Kelvin Wright

January 30, 2008 @ 2:08 am

Second for the week:
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2793223160048427385ltCKUK?vhost=outdoors

Comment by Kelvin Wright

January 30, 2008 @ 2:10 am

Yeah, I know it’s vertical but I like it.
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2506871130048427385Otbhoj?vhost=outdoors

Comment by MAXECLIP

January 30, 2008 @ 2:19 am

Sunrise over the St-Lawrence river on a cold day. Lever du jour sur le fleuve St-Laurent.

My entry #1

Luc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada :)

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2299587920013539127DsBJAw?vhost=outdoors

Comment by MAXECLIP

January 30, 2008 @ 2:28 am

Sunrise in Rosemont

Luc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada :)

My entry # 2

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/1511197179013539127KowuRq?vhost=outdoors

Comment by MAXECLIP

January 30, 2008 @ 2:33 am

Have a nice day :)

My entry # 3

Luc

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2595002250013539127KORSsj?vhost=outdoors

Comment by Charlene

January 30, 2008 @ 5:08 am

My first entry: sunrise over Happy Hollow, Baguio City

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2983527030100883578rBJqFd?vhost=outdoors

Comment by Charlene

January 30, 2008 @ 5:09 am

My 2nd: cutting through the clouds

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2346829310100883578OMJVKD?vhost=outdoors

Comment by Charlene

January 30, 2008 @ 5:11 am

My third entry: golden streaks in the morning sky

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2103825080100883578RfauyI?vhost=outdoors

Comment by Blair Wainman

January 30, 2008 @ 6:01 am

Somehow Entry #2 did not show up. I have had quite a lot of difficulty with the ‘tags’. So, will try it again.
#2 http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2670239250016149455FkDClh?vhost=travel

Comment by cazzbar

January 30, 2008 @ 6:58 am

Greetings from the State of Florida, aka “the sun shine” state. I have posted three sunrise entries of the same beach at different times and dates. Sunrises are spectacular here, especially along the Atlantic Ocean. The one thing I love about taking beautiful sunrises is if you would like a different picture, visit often, and when doing a shoot, wait five minutes, and be a bit creative with what props, you have in your surroundings. Hope you enjoy the spectacular views from Melbourne Beach, FL, USA.

Comment by Yan

January 30, 2008 @ 9:33 am

I thought that we don’t have to put a link here, but your software will scan the website and add the image here, can you tell me if I am right?
Thx.

Comment by Francisca

January 30, 2008 @ 12:02 pm

A Vertical just for fun!

http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2182114550014905914PBEUCQ

Saludos fromout Madrid-Spain,

Francisca

Comment by omaatje9

January 30, 2008 @ 2:17 pm

Hi everyone!:)

my first entry:

http://entertainment.webshots
.com/photo/2510626740045146464JOGgKT?vhost=entertainment

good luck everyone!! :-)
~Thea

Comment by omaatje9

January 30, 2008 @ 2:18 pm

my second entry:

http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/2839788080045146
464UVwJQA?vhost=entertainment

Comment by omaatje9

January 30, 2008 @ 2:20 pm

first entry did not download,
here is my second try of my
first entry:

http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/2510626740045146464JOGgKT?vhost=entertainment

Comment by omaatje9

January 30, 2008 @ 2:22 pm

my final and third entry:

http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/2874000310045146464EpdJRC?vhost=entertainment

Comment by Basim Al Samman

January 30, 2008 @ 3:05 pm

Congratulation your photo deserved the Creative challenge : Sunrise …Good Work …

Comment by Marv Berryman (dawson30)

January 30, 2008 @ 3:06 pm

A “non-entry sunrise” at “Jackie Robinson Field”. Celebrating what would have been his 89th birthday. The first black major league baseball player, he died of a heart attack at age 53 in 1972.

http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/2312751930001186366jVUrGJ

Comment by Richard

January 30, 2008 @ 4:00 pm

My non-entry of the week… LOL

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2812648750013862179baLHLW?vhost=outdoors

Enjoy!

Comment by Nestor

January 31, 2008 @ 2:52 am

Hi I wish you good luck, mine is only one photo so far, hmm seems to me I do not have sunrises at all

Cheers

http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2428905290025863834LOrLmm

Comment by Gloria

January 31, 2008 @ 5:07 am

Yahoo!!! I know this comment is off the topic, but it appears they are taking the site down to correct some issues (server, pages loading, etc.), and some photos were stagnant for months.

Thank you webshots staff!!

Comment by Marv Berryman (dawson30)

January 31, 2008 @ 5:38 am

A couple more recent Denver sunrise “non-entries” begin at:

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2660879310001186366VlWzpF

P.S. Colorful-cloudy Denver sunrises are rare. :-) Marv (BerryMan)

Comment by Arthur Plumstead

January 31, 2008 @ 6:25 am

Entry#1

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2993446870027804951yarTKr

Comment by utehempel

January 31, 2008 @ 2:34 pm

hi all,

my first entry:
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2903346030051347785nckahL?vhost=good-times

Comment by utehempel

January 31, 2008 @ 2:51 pm

the third entry I renewed:

http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2752109400051347785xgzTuj?vhost=good-times

Comment by Fred

January 31, 2008 @ 2:59 pm

Try this on for size. It really WAS nearly biblical, and the inspiration lasted all day!

http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2330724210049718473iJneUm?vhost=travel

Enjoy,
Fred

Comment by Fred

January 31, 2008 @ 3:05 pm

This one about blew me away, and it had nothing to do with creativity, but being in the right place at the right time. Of course, I did get up at 3:00 AM in order to be at the right place. See what you think:

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2857683060049718473msfQFc?vhost=outdoors

Enjoy,
Fred

Comment by alaskaman53

February 1, 2008 @ 12:16 am

http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2857287520092952038RwIlvM?vhost=travel

My first entry again.

Comment by YEYMZ

February 1, 2008 @ 4:22 am

My first entry -

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2032865840101765455DyZkFW?vhost=outdoors

Comment by YEYMZ

February 1, 2008 @ 4:26 am

My second entry -

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2785558940101765455DVWLpM?vhost=outdoors

Comment by YEYMZ

February 1, 2008 @ 4:33 am

My third entry -

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2062299130101765455cSSUre?vhost=outdoors

Comment by Eva

February 1, 2008 @ 5:07 am

Question for Jessica!!!

I taged my three enries about three hours ago, but they are still not shown on the “Display side”.
Do I need to “re-tag” them???

Eva :?

Comment by Fred

February 1, 2008 @ 5:28 am

One for the fun of it:

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2090957240049718473jcaoyI?vhost=outdoors

Enjoy,
Fred

Comment by Fred

February 1, 2008 @ 5:31 am

Since one of my three is missing, I’ll replace it with this one:

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2160727510049718473XuFpIM?vhost=outdoors

Enjoy,
Fred

Comment by Irene

February 1, 2008 @ 8:12 am

hi:

here’s my entry:

http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2383456150070896344ZsYTUi

Comment by Irene

February 1, 2008 @ 8:14 am

here’s my entry:

http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2383456150070896344ZsYTUi

bye-o!

Comment by DJ

February 1, 2008 @ 4:08 pm

Since the Display Page doesn’t seem to updating since the backup, I’ll post my third entry here. http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2804635780046095852GzebBo

Comment by Carol

February 1, 2008 @ 7:06 pm

Why are pplz. still putting links to their challenge entries in here???
It clearly states on the previous page it is Not necessary
By Tagging photos upon uploading in the first place…
saves on doing it in the Comments page…Which should be used for that purpose right- I think anyway…
mt thought of the day.

Comment by alaskaman53

February 2, 2008 @ 12:39 am

http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/2835222060092952038IUKkQf?vhost=entertainment

http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/2785955350092952038rKPCQB?vhost=entertainment

It’s not easy to find a sunrise, so I was ceative and made this two pictures.

Succes to all off you.

Comment by Blair Wainman

February 2, 2008 @ 2:52 am

Maybe it’s because the tags aren’t sticking properly. I have lost 2 of mine on the display page and as much as the tags are clearly placed on the photo site, they were on the list and now are gone…and I notice that there is more than one that isn’t there on the display page that were there before…before the site went down for ‘back-up’. Hmmm???

Comment by Charley Lowe

February 2, 2008 @ 5:04 am

Never entered the Challenge before but here’s my best Shots.

Entry #1
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2182673830065922335HJGELW

Entry #2
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2843801250065922335JVWxpJ

Entry #3
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2763403190065922335FaRoet

Comment by puliarf1

February 2, 2008 @ 9:22 am

Obviously the CC Sunrise display page isn’t back up and working properly. The last one on the display page was tagged 2/1/08 at 1654. I tagged this one last night and it still isn’t on the display page. I’m sure others are experiencing the same problem. I am hoping the webmasters are aware of this and resolving it. So, until tags are working again, here is another entry:
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2547687050018202150EoWtlO

Comment by Eva

February 2, 2008 @ 9:28 am

My entries are still not on the “Display side” although I tagged them about one and a half day ago. I’ve also noticed that the latest entry that have “shown up” was tagged on Jan. 31st about 16:50 pdt…

It would be nice to hear something from the “management team” what is going on.

Do I and everyone else need to “re-tag” their entries or what???

Eva :?

Comment by THERESA

February 2, 2008 @ 9:36 am

HELP…HELP…HELP. WHERE IS WEBSHOTS? I CAN’T GET TO THE SITE AT ALL FROM IE OR WWW. TRY GOOGLE AND MORE. I AM ON THE EAST COAST AND IT IS SAT. FEB 2, AT 12:30 PM. NO WEBSHOTS SINCE YOU SHUTDOWN THE OTHER DAY. PLEASE RESPOND AND LET ME KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON. THERESA

Comment by puliarf1

February 2, 2008 @ 12:12 pm

ooops. you are right Eva, the last tagged photo on the display page was on the 31th, not 2/1 as I wrongly stated. That’s worse. Not too fair to those of us that tagged after the last 1/31 photo on the display page. And I too was missing the daily alerts today. I can only hope the WS webmasters are feverishly working to fix the loose ends that are dangling.

Comment by Carol

February 2, 2008 @ 2:15 pm

I wondered why I hadn’t had any visits to my CC entries - no wonder - they are not on the DISPLAY PAGE. Webshots crew will have a lot of work to catch up on when they return on Monday. Obvioulsy more was done to the system than just a backup, because I didn’t get my weekly stats either.

Comment by dwight03

February 2, 2008 @ 4:30 pm

Walking to work in Late September .A Rainy and cloudy dull morning .When our sun made an apprentice . Standing in the middle of the road zooming past all the building and hydro wires ,trying to find the best angle .This is what took .The sun was out less 20 seconds .Even The motorists were polite enough to stop their cars and let me take my pic.
pic 1
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2481965340047805877tRHXNU?vhost=outdoors

pic 2
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2955983050047805877BoyRlU?vhost=outdoors

pic 3
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2716699920047805877uvlYkv?vhost=outdoors

Comment by swtsoftcountry

February 2, 2008 @ 11:28 pm

creative-challenge-sunrise

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2679789160032662909rkaFIb?vhost=outdoors
Morning awakens like the first morning.

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2190771300032662909OPofoI?vhost=outdoors
A Morning full of God’s Glory

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2953436630032662909twPcUV?vhost=outdoors

Greeting the day

Comment by Fred

February 3, 2008 @ 9:13 am

“Updated about every hour” my foot! I’ve been waiting all weekend to make sure my photos got posted (yes, they have the correct tag), and NOTHING! Get busy, staff, and get these photos posted!

Fred

Comment by Martina Thompson

February 3, 2008 @ 11:33 am

Why are no pictures being posted since 1-31-08 for the challenge??

Comment by Barry

February 3, 2008 @ 11:35 am

I noticed some of my photos havent been available for 3 weeks. No of course, we all know that it hasn’t recovered yet from the “backup”. I hope that there were some servers and bandwidth added. Its not work $29.95 per year at this rate

Comment by w5kbd

February 3, 2008 @ 5:10 pm

WHAT AWAY TO START THE DAY.
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2835386210086897895SxHPER?vhost=outdoors

Comment by odiepugsmom55-sharon

February 3, 2008 @ 6:50 pm

Here in Oregon its a rare day to see the sunrise because its usually cloudy, overcast, foggy and raining. But of late we have also had snow. I did take this beautiful sunrise on Christmas morning though, what a gift.

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2154309630101131230Rtndpl?vhost=outdoors

Comment by Eva

February 4, 2008 @ 12:23 am

Still NO updates on the “Display page” since Jan. 31st at about 16:50 pdt… I tagged my three entries on Feb. 1st (and yes, correctly) and they have still not shown up…

Maybe this weeks “Creative Challenge - Sunrise” should be “re-done” once “they” got everything up and running again. If so everyone would at least have the same “chance” of getting their entries “valued”…

Eva :?

Comment by Barry

February 4, 2008 @ 4:01 am

still nothing at 7 AM EST 2/4. how about an error message or something? this does NOT look good.

Comment by Shlomo

February 4, 2008 @ 4:20 am

Eva i dont know what u mean by “valued” bec the members dont chose the winners but thestaff does u can post a pic two hours or a day befor the challange closes and win it happend befor i noticed that some of the winners that one not all of them posted at the beaging of the challange.

W.s Staff:

But I would like if there will be a possible to also chose a members choice of winners and not only the staffs

Comment by Eva

February 4, 2008 @ 5:18 am

Shlomo - I know that it is the staff that chose the winners. And I also know it doesn’t matter at what time you enter the challenge, you might “win” anyway.

But if all entries doesn’t show up at the Display page (because of some glitch in the system), then all entries doesn’t have the same chance simply because they are not shown. That’s why I think this challenge should be “re-done”…

Hope that make some sense and I’m sorry if what I’m writing is not that clear. It isn’t always that easy to get your word across when writing in a different language than your own. :?

Take care and good luck everyone.
Eva :)

Comment by Bose001webshots

February 4, 2008 @ 5:41 am

Not only do the creative challenge photos not post to the display after since the 1/31 backup, but suddenly I’m not receiving the e-mail notifications of messages left on any of my photos. What is going on?

Comment by Sharon Schultz

February 4, 2008 @ 6:43 am

My 3rd entry. :

http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2065149720074891795ZkSWuK?vhost=travel

Comment by Ethel Bustamante

February 4, 2008 @ 6:46 am

I only can view the blog section of WS. I am unable to open the main page of webshots or view the photos or the display page for entries. I cannot open any of the links for the photos submitted. Ethel

Comment by johan pikanomo

February 4, 2008 @ 6:51 am

IT LOOKS STRANGE A EMPTY SCREEN THE BLOG IS THE ONLY THING I AM ABLE TO OPEN AND ONLY BE USING A LINK FROM A EMAIL I GOOGELD FOR PIKANOMO AND EVRITING IS STILL DEAR BUT ITS NOT POSIBLE FOR MY SELF TO OPEN SOMETHING WITH THE NAME PIKANOMO ON IT EN WONDER IF THERE ARE MORE MEMBERS WITH THE SAME PROBLEM …..JOHAN THE NETHERLANDS

Comment by puliarf1

February 4, 2008 @ 7:52 am

I am still experiencing the same as I have for the last 3 or 4 days. I can access WS and do everything as normal but the CC display page is not updating and I am not getting my daily alerts. I understand the hugeness of file space with many users and their pictures and how that can be a big task to maintain…..BUT you would think WS would have the proper techie folks and resources to get the problems fixed after 4 or 5 days. And YES,,,,,,a simple notice that we know there are problems and we are working on it on the BLOG would be a nice touch.

Comment by Carol

February 4, 2008 @ 9:07 am

Webshots, Please give us an update about the Display Page. We have waited all weekend while it has been down and now that you are back to work, please reassure us that our entries will be included in the challenge. Thanks.

Comment by Dave M

February 4, 2008 @ 9:29 am

There are no posts showing since January 31st on the Display Page. What is the problem? Will it be fixed to include all entries in the contest?

Comment by puliarf1

February 4, 2008 @ 9:38 am

Yes, the display page is still “dead in the water” and no communication from the WS folks as to why. SO, let’s just post the old fashioned way, here in the CC comments. Here are my #2 & #3 entries. This one I posted a link before so it’s from the department of redundancy department
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2547687050018202150EoWtlO
and last summer’s Zaca fire that produced a strange orange-red morning sky
http://news.webshots.com/photo/2921469810018202150BBqfjU

Comment by grma_of6... Bonnie

February 4, 2008 @ 9:49 am

I think maybe this Challenge needs to be extended for another week as there are so many of us unable to participate.

I received an email saying the problem of being able to connect has been resolved. NOT FOR ME IT HASN’T!!!PLEASE HELP US WE ARE LOST WITHOUT OUR WEBSHOTS!!!

Where has everyone been? Not one response to any of our comments about this loss of connectivity. I realize this is OFF TOPIC but since we can’t participate in THE TOPIC it becomes a MOOT topic!!

I hope someone somewhere will listen to our plight and start communicating with us!!!

Bonnie in Virginia

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