stepbystep wrote:Hey Nick
I have real problems with this rule
Same (or similar) photo must not have been entered in any other site photo competitions (eg, must not have already been entered in one of the monthly photo competitions)
If it's the best photo you have taken, it's the best you've taken, fullstop. Pretty counter-intuitive it can't be entered in the 'Photo of the Year'.
Please drop this rule.
If it has already been entered into a monthly competition, and didn't win that competition then it isn't really a contender for photo of the year. If it did win that monthly competition, then it will be automatically entered into the photo of the year grand final.
Ie, if you've already entered it into a monthly competition, then you've effectively already entered it into the photo of the year.
Or another way to look at it... each of the monthly competitions is a preliminary round for the photo of the year competition. You can't enter the same photo in more than one of the preliminary competitions.