So there I go, my VERY FIRST photo submission into an international photo contest…EVER. (Imagine that!)

Got the link from a friend via YahooMessenger, and I thought, “what the heck”. If I win, I win; If I don’t, tough shit

Registration went not that smooth. Somehow is my mailserver / mailexchanger / whatever that thing that controls my e-mail traffic ain’t working as it should be. After registering, I should be receiving a confirmation email from the server containing my password. Well, no. I tried to register again, with the same details, and the server refused to do so (well do’h, logically). So, I just enter any information, and edit them later.

The joy of being logged in stayed not for long. After a short discussion with a quite-close friend, I decided to upload one photo. It went also not very smoothly (pffff….)

The requirements are the photo should be in .jpeg, with the file size of 800-1200KB. Thus, in the “Help” section, it says that they are recommending to reduce the dimensions down to 1000px max either width or height. So said, and done. And what’s next? The output jpeg, even at Photoshop’s JPEG option level 12, is not even close to 500KB (WTF!?)

So, after carefully reading the requirements, it says nothing about the dimensions… they only recommend it
What the heck, I just reduced it to 3000px, and yes sir.. it saved to 1100KB
Next? Submitting the work, et voila, it works…

Now, let’s hoping that my entry is selected (that’ll be something allright, my first submission)

Here’s what I’ve submitted (click to enlarge)

Or at SWPA’s site: http://www.worldphotographyawards.org/accyourentries.asp?Photo=2911