Jesters of Middle Earth

Photo Competition

Right, competition time! This month (August 2008) we are running a Gallery Photo Competition. Any screenshot submitted will be judged in the following categories:

• Events
  
• Randomness & Silly
  
• Various Locations
  
• Raids
  
• Real Life
  
• Officers Choice

Now here is how it works. We want you to submit photo’s to the galleries on this website. Entering is as simple as that. Any photo’s already submitted will count too, so don’t worry if you think your best one is already up there. And when the shot was taken doesn’t matter either. It can be new or 2 years old or 20 years in the case of RL , we don’t mind.

Around the middle of August, some threads will appear asking you, the forum users, to name your favourite shots for each category excluding Officers Choice. What you judge it on is entirely up to you. Winners will be announced August 31^st.

What is the reward? The nice icon that I’m currently sporting, namely

The following is a list of galleries that fall under each category (we are tidying up, so don't worry if you can't find all galleries, it's the categories that matter):

• Events
  Jester Events
  Events
  The Conga
  Battle of the Bards
  Hide & Seek
  Chicken Run
• Randomness & Silly
  Randomness & Silly
  
• Various Locations
  Breeland
  North Downs
  Erid Luin
  Lone Lands
  Angmar
  Various Locations
• Raids
  Raids
• Real Life
  Real Life
• Officers Choice
  All the galleries!

If you upload, you might get a message about the site licence settings. Don't worry, we're sorting it, just ignore it. But while we're sorting it, you might find some galleries where you are uanble to add photo's and these will disapear over time. All the photo's will be moved to another gallery, so *fingers crossed* none will be lost and all will be entered in the competition. The galleries underlined above will remain and you should be able to upload to these.

Any questions or problems, please contact me.

Now get snapping & uploading!

Very cool :)

[EDIT] Btw, why isn't it a best dwarf photo category? :)

langly:

[EDIT] Btw, why isn't it a best dwarf photo category? :)

Because it would be a contradiction in terms?

*runs*

Got this message while uploading some pics:

"This site is over its licensed settings. Please notify the site administrator."

Thanks Atti, but don't worry. We know about it and are trying to sort it. It should dissapear evetually. It won't stop you uploading, so keep them coming!

While we are trying to sort it, you might not be able to add to all the galleries, but the following will always be open for new photo's:

• Events
  
• Randomness & Silly
  
• Various Locations
  
• Raids
  
• Real Life

What a great great competition guys, i love photography :D

Linky, those panoramas are well cool! How did you do them? Or is it just your normal monitor resolution?

I think you post a lot on the codies forum, you should post them there, very impressive. And if you do - hightlight the competition on the website too

nawh that not my screen resolution, even though it is pretty big, i use photoshop to join photos together. And yeah i post alot more on the codemasters forums then i do here, i admit, so if i do post them there, i'll mention the competition no doubt. :)

 Come on guys & gals, surely there must be more picies out there!

I put some in recently, is that enough or do i have to post here loudly too?

(want to win my own icon :P) \o/

@ Row

It's enough to qualify, but I'm picie greedy

atti:

Got this message while uploading some pics:

"This site is over its licensed settings. Please notify the site administrator."

All sorted. It only took me FIVE HOURS TO SORT You'd think there'd be an easy way to move images. turns out there is a very, very good reason why the functionality dosn't exist in the control panel. I'd try and explain, but it would probably take an hour.

Oh, and the database has been optimised a bit and I've managed to shave 250,000 (!!) rows, (or 70Mb if you think in bytes) from the search index by just telling it to ignore works like "the", "four", "letter", "thread", "skiving" (I wonder where they came from? )

woops, sorry. If I'd know it was that much work I wouldn't have asked! Apologies Bawb.

Esme:

woops, sorry. If I'd know it was that much work I wouldn't have asked! Apologies Bawb.

I didn't know at the time (and hey - not your fault, no apology required :)  . You'd have thought a piece of software costs $10,000 for the enterprise version (we run the free, feature limited express version) would have this capablity but it turns out it doesn't. I moved everything around in the database (no biggie) but it turns out the uploaded files are renamed based on the section ID. So the lone-lands all start 1000.[SectionID=10].original-file-name.jpg, but end, (oh whatever, you get the idea!) Moving the data to  was fairly easy but it took ages to figure out why images weren't displaying (CS makes heavy use of caching - I'm never sure if what i'm looking at is real, or something that happened 15minutes ago)

anyhow, eventually I figured it out, and its all working. And I've made a small, but massive update to the search engine thats shaving 70Mb+ off the database size (thats a lot in database land btw)

But like a good mechanic, you'll never spot it, its a Keyser Söze update

no idea who took this, but I still think this is the best Jester picture ever! \o/