Voting for the $10,000 Blog Contest sponsored by John Scott, owner of V7, is currently under way. Over 80 blogs announced their participation in the contest, and a final 10 blogs were nominated to be considered for the #1 prize of $3,000.

Amongst those participating blogs is one of mine, Blogging Blogs. I included over 70+ outgoing links to new, cool, and not-so-known blogs, as well as roughly 15 to 20 reviews of some of my favorite of those blogs. I also spread the word about the contest, announcing it on my blog when the challenge began. When I get caught up with a few other things, I will continue the task of reviewing cool blogs, so if you have one you’d like reviewed, submit it over there and I’ll see what I can do.

As far as the rest of the competitors go, it looks like Trapper is one of the top ones. He’s also done a number of posts, as well as links. Good job!

Voting is taking place on the V7 Forums, so I encourage you to get over there now and vote for the best candidate

Note: I am not a paid employee of V7N. I volunteer my time here to write this blog.

The V7 Tech Blog is again sponsoring a digital photography contest. Send us your best digital photos, and at the end of the month we’ll vote on the best one.

The Theme:

This month’s theme is “Faces”. 

The Rules:

1. All photos must be taken with a digital camera.

2. All entries should be posted in the appropriate thread at the V7 Forums.

3. A maximum of 5 entries per person are allowed.

4. All photos must fit the “Faces” theme.

5. Contest ends 12:00am EST on October 1st.

And although not a rule, please be considerate and resize your images to an appropriate size.  4000 x 4000 pixel images take too long to load up. 

The winner will receive a brand-new geeky tshirt of their choosing, as well as some random prizes of my choosing.

The V7 Tech Digital Photography Contest received 219 submissions. Because of the volume of submissions, we will be conducting two rounds of voting in order to find our winner. All photos have been uploaded to the gallery viewable here: http://www.v7n.com/forums/gallery/browseimages.php?c=37&userid= ROUND 1: Each person may nominate up to two photos to move on to Round 2. The same photo may be nominated multiple times by different people. The top 10 nominated photos will move on to Round 2. Please link to the photos you are nominating. ROUND 2: From the top 10 nominated photos we will create a poll. The photo that gets the most votes wins.

The contest will be wrapping up at 12:00am EST September 1st, so be sure to get your entries in if you haven’t done so already.

Voting will begin on September 1st, so be on the lookout for a thread in the Digital Photography Forums at that time.  Because of the large number of entries, we will likely have to have a series of eliminations, meaning a couple rounds of voting.

Thanks to all who have so far participated - your entries are amazing!  Because of the success of this contest, we will be running similiar photo contests each month here at V7 Tech.  However, future contests will likely have a set theme.  The next contest will also be announced on September 1st.

V7 Tech Digital Photography Contest

Aug 6, 2006 - 116 Photos

All I can say is WOW.  The entries we have received thus far are absolutely fantastic, and I commend all of you for a job well done.  There are still several weeks left in the competition and it will be interesting to see how this all plays out. Already we have received 116 entries!

To make viewing the entries easier, I’ve been uploading all the photos to Picasa Web Albums in a public album.  If you click the photo to the right, you’ll be taken to the album.  I am also adding a link to the album under the “Pages” category on the left-hand side of this blog.  That will make it easier to find and view the entries.

Please continue to submit photos in the thread at the V7 forums.  I go through the thread and upload the new additions to Picasa as I find them.  I believe the photos are randomly sorted, but don’t quote me on that.

So, thanks again to everyone who is helping to make this contest a success!  Your photos are beautiful, and I can’t wait to see more of them.

Sadly, we received no entries for our July video contest, and now it is August. So this month I’ve decided to make it a bit easier. Send us your best digital photos, and at the end of the month we’ll vote on the best one.

The Rules:

1. All photos must be taken with a digital camera.

2. Subject matter is up to you - no requirements.

3. All entries should be posted in the contest thread on the V7 Forums.

4. A maximum of 10 entries per person are allowed. So choose your photos wisely.

5. Contest ends 12:00am EST on September 1st.

The winner will receive a brand-new geek tshirt of their choosing, as well as some random prizes of my choosing. The contest is pretty open-ended, so have fun and show me what you’ve got.