October contest theme: Pink

I do not understand who I submit the photo to for judging??
Is there an e-mail address I am supposed to send my photo to?

Hi Colleen, there is a link in the entry above where you can read the rules in detail. We use Flickr for our contest submissions, and the rules spell out in detail how to enter. Let me know if you have any other questions.

Teresa, great theme to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month. My sympathies on the loss of your friend.

Love this theme and it's appropriateness this month.

I love this theme! Thanks, I lost my mom in April to breast cancer.

wherever did you find a statistic stating that mortality rates for bc have decreased every year since 1990? The American Cancer Society reports (stats for women):

Year   New cases   Est. deaths
2000   182,800    40,800
2001   192,200   40,200
2002   203,500   39,600
2003   211,300   39,800
2004   215,990   40,110
2005   211,240   40,410
2006   212,920   40,970
2007   178,480   40,460
2008   182,460   40,480

Great theme -- btw, Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day is Oct. 13. For those who might not know: Metastatic breast cancer (when cancer has spread beyond the breast to a distant organ) is often controllable, but it is not curable.

Women with early stage breast cancer are not considered truly "cured" until they have 20 disease-free years. So ladies, be vigilant against recurrence!

I am walking the "Making Strides" walk this weekend in Boston, and have raised almost $700! I love this theme! I have many friends who are survivors of this awful disease. Thanks for make more people aware. My sympathies to you also.

Hi, Ellen -- I had trouble with your chart rendering correctly in columns that lined up, so I dropped the columns showing bc incidence in men -- hope that's all right.

I got the information about the steady decline in mortality rates from the American Cancer Society. They just released their 2009-2010 report:

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/MED/content/MED_2_1x_American_Cancer_Society_Report_Finds_Breast_Cancer_Death_Rate_Continues_to_Drop.asp?sitearea=MED

I think the difference you're seeing is that unlike survival rates, which are based on a certain percentage of people with a disease surviving X number of years, mortality rates in this case are not based on the number of people with the disease; they are based on the entire population.

So the mortality rates for breast cancer in the ACS report are not the percentage of people with breast cancer who have died; it is the number of deaths from bc per 100,000 total population.

So even though the number of cases has stayed steady, as your chart above shows, the population of the US has increased. The fact that deaths from bc haven't risen in proportion to the population increase may be a small victory, but it's something to hang on to.

im walking in my local walk tomorrow and i got 200 DOLLARS in pledges. oh, and if Pink is in the color pink, does that count?

Teresa - when I mentioned this back in July, I hoped it would be something that we could look forward to doing. I've been busy this summer but this is a shoot I will definitely participate in.

So glad to have this (and Sarah, and my husband's grandmother, and so many other women) honored.

This may be a tad lame ... but if I want to replace the flickr photo I tagged with the October content info, is there a way to do so? Will simply deleting the tags from one and adding them to another work? If not, oh well.

Naomi, if Pink is wearing pink, sure!

Ruth -- you've got it right: All you have to do is delete the tags from one photo and add them to another.

I submitted the picture on Flickr on October 3rd and it doesn't seem to be showing up on the search ... even though I checked all the settings and they are correct ... what else can I do?

Hi, wij -- I just checked your photo and Flickr account, and it appears you started the account on Oct. 3 when you uploaded 7 photos. It can take Flickr more than 2 weeks to find new accounts and add them to its search ... so be patient ... Flickr should find your photo any day now.

Teresa, can a photo be re-entered for October if it was already entered for May?

Yup, Jim, you sure can. The only photos that can't be resubmitted for contests are those that finished First, Second, or Third in a previous contest. Honorable Mentions (4 through 10) can be re-submitted as well.

I thought I had added this to the rules when someone asked me this same question a few months ago, but your question made me realize I hadn't. Now I have, so thanks for asking it.

Hi Teresa, when you said "photoshop cannot be used", do you also mean that contrast or brightness cannot be changed? Thank you

Oh, you can use Photoshop, k ... my reference to Photoshop was only in the context of adding the color pink ... the rule is that the color pink cannot be added to the photo with editing software if it wasn't there originally. It's not a complete ban on using Photoshop.

Good luck!

I'm looking for the November contest theme. Am I missing it somewhere? Thanks!

Karen

When do you list the new winners (October)?

Hi, J -- We'll post the judge's Final 50 this week, then all of you will vote for a few days. The judge will then choose her Top 10, taking your votes into consideration. We'll probably post the final winners sometime next week.