The first few challenges we'll do here will involve technical aspects of photography rather than subject themes. This is meant to test your knowledge of basic photographic principles [as well as teach you what you don't already know, hopefully!]
Your First Challenge: The Rule of Thirds
For this challenge, you need to employ your knowledge of the Rule of Thirds. Your image needs to be taken FOR THIS CHALLENGE. I will be checking the EXIF data to make sure photos were taken after March 25th, 2007. For film photos, I obviously can't prove you took it after the date, so I'm going to have to go with the honor system and trust that you guys are following the rules. Subject matter can be anything you want it to be, so long as you've employed the rule of thirds in some way.
Here are some links to tutorials illustrating the use of TRT:
http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/rule-of-thirds/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/9311166/
http://www.silverlight.co.uk/tutorials/compose_expose/thirds.html
http://photospot2004.blogspot.com/2004/07/rule-of-thirds.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds
http://macteens.com/features/fullstory/the_rules_of_photography/
The deadline for Challenge #1 is Saturday, April 15th.
Prizes are as follows:
First = 5000g
Second = 2000g
The Winners:
Tie for first:
#2 -
by Watercolor Bliss#7 -
by AngiemademeTie for second:
#3 -
by AGVegetarian#6 -
by April_Ethereal 
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