January contest theme: 'What's That?'

On Mozilla Firefox browser, I always see "Loading..." message and it takes forever. Sometime it works after few refresh of the page, but most of the time it automatically redirects me to login... it's frustrating.

Ray, we'll look into this right away. The upload tool was built in-house, and we're constantly tweaking and improving it, but it still can be a little buggy from time to time. Thanks for your patience (yes, I'm assuming that you will be patient with us ... !)

I just noticed that the photos submitted for this month's contest are all from last January's (2010) "What's That?" contest....obviously posted in error?

Hi Ellen, actually, I posted those deliberately just to give this year's entrants a flavor of what we did last year. After we get a good number of submissions for this year, I'll take them down.

what are the flickr tags for this contest?

No more Flickr tags, E ... we're using our own upload tool now. You can see other entries and add your photo here:

http://www.boston.com/community/photos/raw/contests/2011/01/whats_that_gallery/

Thanks for the interest...

Thank you!!

Hi, the instructions said to submit the photos as 500 pixels in height. If submitting one in portrait orientation, that would make it a fairly small image. Would it be 500 in width for portrait and 500 in height if landscape? Thanks for your help and for having these contests!

Hi Lisa,

The 500 pixels in height is for both horizontals and verticals. We don't want people to have to scroll to see an entire photo; it's easier to be able to see it all on one screen, and when you take into consideration the header and nav bars and link bars and search bars that people have on their browsers, as well as our headline and introductory text on the galleries, 500 deep seems about right. Verticals still run at a good size, as you can see here:

http://www.boston.com/community/photos/raw/2010/11/monthly_contest/november_bokeh_top10/#/item-4195

Thanks for your interest in RAW, by the way -- I appreciate it.

Teresa

Hi Teresa, thanks for your reply -- the verticals do seem a lot larger than I thought they'd appear! It is nice not to have to scroll to see the whole image. Thank you.

Submitted an entry last night but it's not showing up...photos posted later are there. Should I try again? Thanks.

Yes, try again JB, and if it doesn't work, your photo may be too big. You can send everything to me at raw@boston.com and I'll submit it for you.

I don't think I actually described WHAT my picture was ... the original submit form asked for description but I don't remember it saying "we'll hide this for the contest part." ... should I get the actual description to you somehow? thanks ... great photos of many "things" ....

Hey, Holly ... send the description to raw@boston.com and I'll add it in for you.