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Write a Wintery Haiku (3 lines only) & post with it the best awful Christmas jumper (sweater) you can find. (Size 300)
Contest Directors – JessiCapri & Vaughan.
Sponsored by Achat and an anonymous donor. Winner will get A$500 and Runner up A$250
Send to Saga55 in PM who will publish anonymously for voting.
The Haiku must be your own work, pics can be your own or off the internet.
Open and Deadline for Entries. Dec 6 to Dec 20 Midnight EST
Open and Deadline for voting: Dec 20 to 30 Dec 2020 Midday EST.
Winners Announced on New Years Eve and prizes awarded.Haiku – This ancient form of poem writing is renowned for its small size as well as the precise punctuation and syllables needed on its three lines. It is of ancient Japanese origin. It contains 17 syllables in 3 lines of five, seven, five. Haiku poems are typically about nature and usually about a specific season.
Here is an example – Haiku and pic
Haiku. Put the kettle on
The days are getting shorter
Camellias at dusk
To assist you, these might be useful for you.
Useful FREE Downloads.Down Load this free programmes and open a free account with imgur to upload your pics too.
1. For taking images – Light Shot http://app.prntscr.com/en/download.html
2. For storing images and giving them a http address – Imgur https://imgur.com
Uploading a pic to imgur.
1. Log in to your free imgur account.
2. Click on your name to show drop down menu. Click on Albums
3. Click on “New Album”
4. A box appears. Choose a name, maybe your partners name, the subject etc… Make sure you click on “hidden”. You don’t want the public to see your obscene pics – you could even get kicked off the site.
5. Click on “ Add another image” and a box appears. Click on “Browse” and it open a box to your PC. In the Pop up box, look for “Documents” in your menu and then your “Achat Name” Specials Folder, then “Fave Pics” folder or “Screen Shots” folder.
6. Choose the pic you want. Click on the pic to populate the box , then on “Open” and it will upload to your imgur album. This uploaded pic in your album will now have a “http…” address. You need the http address to post in forum either in a PM or a Topic.7. Alternatively if you have a Discord account, the pic can be uploaded there and the http address given there can be used for forum instead.
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To upload a pic to forum.
1. Right click on your chosen image in your imgur album you wish to post or pm in forum. A drop down menu will appear. Click on “Copy Image Address” or “Copy URL” or similar. This is to copy the http address of the pic.
2. Open up Forum and the topic or PM ( Private Message ) you wish to answer or send. Paste it by right clicking and choosing paste from the drop down menu (OR Control / Ctrl + V ) in your Forum ” Message ” or ” Reply” box. The URL will appear.
3. Then high light it blue (Holding left button down on your mouse and dragging across )
4. Above the smiley faces above is a square box ” insert image” ( 2nd one from the left),
5. Click on that, it will bracket the url for you
6. Then preview, using the below button on the right under the text box. The pic should come up above this section. Check it looks right and not too big. If it’s not, try againIf it’s too big, try this –
It can happen that a pic can be too big and it doesn't fix on the post size (max width is 750). So, it can help to resize it without modifying it offline. See below:
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To Resize a pic thats too big
1. [img.]http://URL of the pic[/img.] (Remove dot after img in both brackets. Dotted so you can view it)
2. Use this simple code:
[img. width=300] URL of the pic [/img.] where 300 is the size you want to set. (Remove dot after img in both brackets. Dotted so you can view it)
3. I recommend for rooms, a good size is 650.
4. The longest size is 750. So if you want pics on the same line, ensure added together, including spaces does not exceed 750.
5. For smaller pics, lower it around 300 or 400.
6. 600 is a good size for Forum. [img. width=600] URL of the pic [/img.] (Remove dot after img in both brackets. Dotted so you can view it)
7. If you are happy with the preview, then send / post.
NB for this competition, you need 300 like this [img. width=300] URL of the pic [/img.]
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