Your September 'Jobs' entries

Are shots taken from an iPhone not eligible for upload? I had an entry photo that did not make the gallery.
Thanks

Sure, Paul, they're eligible. Here are the entries on Flickr (when you search on the 4 contest tags):

http://www.flickr.com/search/?z=e&w=all&q=boston.com+contest+september2009+jobs&m=tags

If you're photo isn't there, it could be for several reasons. Read over the rules of our contests carefully, noting the 5-photo Flickr rule, tagging, privacy settings, etc., and make sure your account and photo are set correctly.

You can find the rules here:

http://www.boston.com/community/photos/raw/2008/07/enter_our_monthly_contests_1.html

If your photo still doesn't show up in Flickr's results, then email me a link to your Flickr photo page to raw@boston.com and I'll see if I can spot anything.

This is an incredible batch of photos. I don't envy the judge one bit!

can we finally get the voting machine up. It's 10/12. Thank you.

Hi, Mary -- We don't post the Voting Machine until the judge has narrowed the field. I'll keep you posted.

Great, thank you.

I'm with Mary, it will be November before we get the voting machine up. We make the deadlines, you should have one, too.

ok, lets relax a little, but I am excited, too. Please, lets get the ball rolling and see who the finalists are. Thank you!

I understand everyone is anxious. Let me explain the process again:

After a contest closes, we don't do anything with the entries for 5 days so that Flickr's search has time to find new accounts with contest entries. Then we build full-screen galleries so that you and the judges can see the photos in their best light (and because we don't want the judges seeing screen names in Flickr).

That process was delayed a few days this month because last week we launched two more Your Town sites -- Brookline and Framingham (that's another area of Boston.com that I oversee).

Those galleries were finished Friday; the judge, who is doing this gratis, is reviewing the galleries today and tomorrow and will send me his final 25 choices sometime tomorrow. We'll then put those in a full-screen gallery and then post the Voting Machine. I would expect to have the VM up on Thursday.