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[jrheavymetal]

Thanks everyone. I'll have to submit some photos sometime after I get back from my trip. Is there a process to enter or are photos randomly picked?

I didn't see the above question get answered yet, and I am wondering myself, how do you come up with the pictures? And is it the same number of pictures from month toi month? Thanks.

[starlagurl]

Jacques goes through the "featured photos" from the home page and picks his favourites every month.

[exploreamerica]

But how do those get featured in the first place?

This website used to have a feature where you could request any of your pictures to be considered to be featured. I no longer can find that option and I think it is a shame

[starlagurl]

Really... let me see if I can find it...

[starlagurl]

Yep, it sure is gone!

I have heard word that it's going back in at some point, I don't know when. But for now, Jacques watches the photos and picks the best ones.

He pays more attention to photos with comments on them, I heard. So if you get comments in your photo album, he's probably considering your pictures for the photo of the month.

[jacquesl]

Thanks everyone. I'll have to submit some photos sometime after I get back from my trip. Is there a process to enter or are photos randomly picked?

There are 2 ways for photos to get featured! The first is part of my tasks to go through the site hunting for great photos. The second is members who send me the link to a photo they would like featured and I review it to make sure that it meets our criteria and if it does, it gets featured. The more links I get the easier my job is....so come one everyone sned in those links to support@travelpod.com.

We used to have a link next to each photo that members could click and submit the photo they would like featured. The request would go to my email and a few of us woudl review the phot to make sure it meet the featuring criteria, but that link is gone. I think that the powers that be have realized that it was an error to remove it, and it will be back in the not too distant future!

Thanks and Keep Voting...

[jacquesl]

Okay, that explains why so many of the pictures always seem to look the same.

A big part of the criteria is that the photo would make a good postcard...but I veer off that ...errrrrr.....sometimes too often......but please submit links of any photo you see on the site that you think deserves to be featured to support@travelpod.com.

[jacquesl]

But how do those get featured in the first place?

This website used to have a feature where you could request any of your pictures to be considered to be featured. I no longer can find that option and I think it is a shame

That link dissappeared with the last upgrade of the site...but I am told it will be back!

[jacquesl]

Yep, it sure is gone!

I have heard word that it's going back in at some point, I don't know when. But for now, Jacques watches the photos and picks the best ones.

He pays more attention to photos with comments on them, I heard. So if you get comments in your photo album, he's probably considering your pictures for the photo of the month.

It should be noted that it's NOT comments from other people, but a story with the photo which gives the photo more value ... but that is not as big an issue as when we first started to feature photos and thus is not a must!

Ok...that's enough of my mouthing off for a while!
And it's User ID jacquesl and not just jacques although both are me!

I hope everyone is enjoying the photo of the month... just remember the more votes, every month, the more it's worth to keep doing it!

[jrheavymetal]

I think the photo thing is one of the cool parts of the site, though I have to say, I haven't found anything that I don't like here, the entire site is cool. And the forums here are way more lively then some of the other travel forums out there.

[jacquesl]

Congratulations to thepolishmaori for his beautiful winning photo for July 2009!

Not bad aye - Santiago, Chile