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#1 Ryan Shrout

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 12:42 PM

Everybody get their cameras out and get ready to participate in our summer C4 contest! Many of you are familiar with our yearly COASTER-net calendar which feature stunning photographs of some of your favorite rides, all taken by members of this community. Now here's your chance to get in on the action.

You can submit all sorts of theme park pictures for us to consider. They don't have to be current to this competition either so if you have a shot you took at a park back in May, or even a great pic of the sadly deceased Big Bad Wolf, go ahead and submit that too. Feel free to upload resized images if lower file sizes help the process go faster, but we do ask that you have an original file of the picture with a minimum of 1.5 MB for quality purposes. And of course all photographs must be your own. Proof of plagiarism will result in all of your entries being disqualified.

Now to keep any one person from overloading the contest, we will be dividing things into three categories and you may only submit one photo per category (note: you don't have to submit a picture in every category). These categories will be:
  • Action - A shot focused on the ride vehicle going through its course, often a close up.
  • Element - a shot of a specific part of a ride, like a loop, corkscrew, or lift hill.
  • Layout - an overview shot showing off a majority of the ride's run.

This contest will be open for submissions for the entire month of July. At the end of the month, a panel of judges from the Staff will select the best photograph from each category. A poll will then be set up for all of you to vote for which one is your favorite. The winner will have his picture featured on the cover of our 2013 COASTER-net Calendar. The two runners up will also be guaranteed to have their pictures in the calendar as well.

The contest will be open to all COASTER-net.com members, including Staff, Elders, and Admins. Also, please keep in mind that all submitting photographs must have a "landscape" orientation to fit our calendars. Vertical photographs will not be considered. With that said, happy photo hunting! Let the contest begin!

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#2 Ryan Shrout

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 01:10 PM

To give some pictorial examples of the three categories, here are my submissions for this contest.

ACTION:
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Ride: Goliath
Park: Six Flags over Georgia

ELEMENT:
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Ride: Cheetah Hunt
Park: Busch Gardens Tampa Bay

LAYOUT:
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Ride: Incredible Hulk Coaster
Park: Islands of Adventure

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#3 Carsten A.

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 10:24 PM

Here is some of mine... Mine are all from Millennium Force at night with it's new lighting... I have really big shots if needed.

ACTION:
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Ride: Millennium Force
Park: Cedar Point

ELEMENT:
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Ride: Millennium Force
Park: Cedar Point

LAYOUT:
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Ride: Millennium Force
Park: Cedar Point

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#4 biZarRo

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Posted 02 July 2012 - 06:55 PM

^Those are really good pics! I really like the third one. :)

Here are mine.

Action
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Wild Eagle at Dollywood
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Skyrush at Hersheypark
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Skyursh at Hersheypark

I changed out the last one.

Edited by biZarRo, 29 July 2012 - 06:48 AM.

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#5 Tori Finlay

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 05:06 PM

Awesome contest guys!


Action:

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Ride: Talon
Park: Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom


Element:

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Ride: Manta
Park: SeaWorld Orlando


Layout

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Ride: Fahrenheit
Park: Hershey Park
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#6 CoasterKings908

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Posted 10 July 2012 - 10:52 PM

ELEMENT:
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LAYOUT:
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Edited by CoasterKings908, 10 July 2012 - 11:18 PM.

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#7 The BeastFan

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Posted 13 July 2012 - 12:59 PM

Layout

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Firehawk- Kings Island

Element

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Vortex- Kings Island

Action

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Diamondback- Kings Island

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#8 MorganFan

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Posted 13 July 2012 - 09:40 PM

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Great White: Sea World San Antonio


Element
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Pepsi Max Big One: Pleasure Beach Blackpool


Layout
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Steel Eel: Sea World San Antonio

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#9 Daniel Westfall

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Posted 13 July 2012 - 10:49 PM

Don't forget to caption your pictures with the ride and park info (like Ryan's example) to help us when we go to use the photos in the calendar.

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#10 Danny Miller

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Posted 14 July 2012 - 09:13 AM

ACTION: California Screamin' @ Disney California Adventure
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ELEMENT: Skyrush @ Hersheypark
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LAYOUT: Stinger/Possessed @ Dorney Park
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On a personal note for these, I went with a classic view for the first one. The Skyrush one I think is going to become a famous shot. It's like the ride is advertising itself and enticing you to ride. And this last one I had a shadowy dark shot similar to it but I love the storm clouds in the background that make the colors of the ride pop.

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#11 DarienLake

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Posted 14 July 2012 - 05:18 PM

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Windseeker and Wonder Mountain (Canada's Wonderland)

ELEMENT
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The Giant Wheel at Darien Lake

LAYOUT
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The Bat at Canada's Wonderland
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Posted 15 July 2012 - 12:48 AM

Action :: Great White at SeaWorld San Antonio

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Element :: Steel Eel at SeaWorld San Antonio

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Layout :: Superman Krypton Coaster at Six Flags Fiesta Texas

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#13 HuLK

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Posted 16 July 2012 - 02:32 PM

Awesome contest, and some sweet submissions already! I'll be entering some here soon, really swamped with other work. I have until the end of July? I think I can pull it off!
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#14 Ryan Shrout

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 04:06 PM

Only 10 days left to submit your photos for the cover contest! Don't let the deadline sneak up on you.

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#15 drachenfirebgw

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Posted 24 July 2012 - 12:49 PM

Hey Ryan, quick question. I know the rules say one per category, but I'm finding I have a ton of great ones in one category and none in the others. May I submit two for one category while forfeiting the one of the other categories. If not that's totally fine. I'm finding I actually do have quite a few good ones surprisingly! May wait until after Dorney so I can decide, which ones to submit. This is already a tough choice.

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#16 Ryan Shrout

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Posted 24 July 2012 - 10:22 PM

Gotta be one per category, but as you can see from the submissions, you can be kinda flexible with the category definitions.

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#17 Ryan Shrout

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Posted 30 July 2012 - 06:50 PM

Just a reminder, tomorrow is the last day you can submit your photographs for the competition.

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Posted 31 July 2012 - 07:44 PM

ACTION

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Moved Deja Vu at Six Flags Over Georgia





ELEMENT

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#19 Ryan Shrout

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 08:43 AM

Alright thanks for everyone who submitted photographs! The selection panel will have the winner from each category posted tonight in the voting thread to decide the overall winner.

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#20 Ryan Shrout

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 09:09 PM

Alright, our panel has deliberated and decided on a winner in all three categories. Please check out the voting thread to see who won and vote for your favorite to be the Calendar Cover! -clicky-

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