Thaivisa Photography Competition - August 2016

samuijimmy · July 30, 2016

Thaivisa Photography Competition (August 2016)

Sponsored by BizPaye

Thailand is awash with fantastic scenery and magic moments on every corner, it is a photographers dream. Thaivisa is looking to share your photos to the world and you could walk away with a wonderful prize each month in the process.

Just send your photos to us each month and we will pick the best 2 to share with the world. First prize, courtesy of BizPaye (bizpaye.com) is two nights at the picturesque Palm Grove Resort in Pattaya, worth 10k baht (more details below) and second prize is 1,000 baht mobile phone top up.

About Palm Grove Resort (First Prize):

Palm Grove Resort is ideally situated in the heart of the natural and cultural attractions on Thailand's Eastern Seaboard. Nestled between two quaint fishing villages, Ban Am Pur and Bang Saray and only a few hundred meters from a pristine white sand beach the location and ambiance could hardly be better.

Palm Grove has it own private sun chairs exclusively for the use of its guests on the adjacent beach where you can enjoy a foot massage, manicure or pedicure while sipping a an ice cold drink and letting the stress of the world melt away.

Only minutes from the resort are many stunning sites that must be visited when you summon the will to drag yourself from the chilled out ambiance of the Palm Grove pools, salas and gardens. These attractions include. The lake of temples, Golden Buddha mountain, Nong Nuch Tropical Gardens, Silver lake Vine Yard, Na Jomtien Floating Market, Underwater world, Phoenix Golf, Sai Kaew nature reserve beach( famous for its crystal clear waters and resident monkey population) Alankran Cultural show is a must while you are at Palm Grove as is the sampling of the seafood served in the local restaurants which are traditionally built out over the ocean and offer the freshest seafood picked live from tanks and cooked to your liking.

Rules of the competition are simple

Contributing members may submit up to four of their own photos per month. *****For those who don't contribute to the general area of the Photo forum the limit is two entries***** .

Only one photo per post.

The photos must be Thailand related and also must comply with the ThaiVisa.com forum rules

A title, Basic Exif data, location and date may be added, but no extra comments to try and win more votes will be allowed.

Members must be a genuine contributing Thai Visa Member, and not just join to add votes for their friends... for the purpose of stacking the Likes.

Any photo found to have likes from non genuine or active members will be disqualified... It's not fair to other members....

Photos with 10 likes or more will be placed in monthly Competition's Best Photograph Gallery.... included in the thread will then be sent to sponsors bizpaye.com who will judge the competition and choose the three winners.

The final winners will not necessarily picked by the photos with the most member "likes" .

Please make sure that your images are no wider than 1024 pixels

Prizes will be awarded to the top three images in this competition.

1st prize Two nights at the picturesque Palm Grove Resort in Pattaya,valued at 10,000 Baht.

2nd Prize 1000 baht Phone card credit ...

3rd prize A Pattaya Channel TV/Inspire T-Shirt.

Note.......We will drop by the thread every day or so to remove the posts not containing images, so please don't be annoyed if you see

one of your posts is missing, thanks for your understanding.

This competition will run until August 30 2016

How to post images - See Posting Images - Guidelines

Please keep dropping by and give your support (likes) to the new images being posted...

Give us your 'Best Photos and good luck to all.... and please contribute to the other photographic threads...

Please note the way the final judging has changed.

Photos with more than 10 likes, will be added to the monthly Competition Gallery and that will be submitted to the judges for final choice of winners.

We are going to allow regular contributing members to post up to four images in the photo competition each month, however to post four images and to be eligible to have them included in the final entries, members must also post at least five images to the other categories, each month... (most members do this anyway)...

Please add your best shots, and contribute to the rest of the photo forum ... link to other parts of the photoforum here:

http://www.thaivisa....y-and-the-arts/

samuijimmy · July 30, 2016

Just a note, with Thaivisa making changes to forum, today, there may be a few glitches, which may cause some problems, please bare with things until sorted.

I am finding I have to refresh the page to get "likes" to work.... I know a few have had problems uploading images in the last day or two... so please be patient and try again later!