Posts Tagged: Contests
Day 12: Dissident 2010, Deschutes, Bend, Oregon
Posted by on Thursday, November 25, 2010 in - leave a comment
Photos? I got no stinking photos for you. Mermaid Avenue is on the stereo and look at what's in front of me. Wax dip top with a hanging tail of burgundy sealing glom. A thick paper label that now challenges me to soak it off in one piece and frame it. Crows for me are auspicious. It's personal. I …
Day 10: Thanksgiving Day Photos Category Announced!
Posted by on Tuesday, November 23, 2010 in - 1 comment
Blame the inspiration from watching too many episodes of Man v. Food but I am going to break my own rule. You will recall my most precious long standing rule: • No photos of dishes of food with a beer next to it. They never win and they kinda make other people feel queasy. Your food is no better …
Day 9: Prizes And Photos But No "Top Beer" So Far
Posted by on Monday, November 22, 2010 in - leave a comment
The Top Gear of brewing... that is what Dave wants and he hit the nail on the head for me. The trouble with all these workplace reality shows is that they are big infomercials and controlled by the suppliers to make themselves look great. BBC's Top Gear motoring show? If you don't appear on it …
Day 8: So Where Is The Baby With Beer In The Snow?
Posted by on Sunday, November 21, 2010 in - 2 comments
I am thinking about categories. In the past, I have focused on geography but am wondering if that is the way of the future. I mean do the Canadian or UK entries really need comparing to each other or is there a different way to go. Consider these two photos, each by cell phone camera. Are they not …
Day 5: I Have To Catch Up... Must Catch Up...
Posted by on Thursday, November 18, 2010 in - 2 comments
It's been mad. Work, I mean. How evil that I have to go desk jockey for eight hours when all I want is to post photos of beer from people I will never meet. Evil. Forget about the promised jet pack I never received. I thought the future was about me, me, me. Pure evil. • John Lewington, past …
Day 5: The Dad, Baby And Beer Sub-Contest Is On!
Posted by on Thursday, November 18, 2010 in - 2 comments
I have no idea why I like this photo from Max Bahnson of Tursko in the Czech Republic, author of Pivni Filosof. But I do. Is it because the baby juxtaposed with beer category is a glimmer of the Christmas tale itself? Or is it because I have a photo of my twelve year when she was six months old …
Day 4: Frank McDonald Can't Friggin' Count!
Posted by on Wednesday, November 17, 2010 in - 7 comments
He can't. Frank can't friggin' count. Last year it was Jeff Alworth from Portland, Oregon sending in eight. I say five photos in 2009, he sends in eight. I say five in 2010, Frank sends eight. That Frank McDonald of Newfoundland. Frank can't friggin' count. • Frank. Frank. Frank. Who the heck …
Day 3: The Entries Start To Flood In... 'N' Stuff
Posted by on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 in - 3 comments
I have to write about something other than the photo contest, don't I? While Stan may be right in his kind opinion that this contest "must be one of the very best inventions beer blogging has given us" we also have to remember there is a great big world out there. Like a guy actually writing a …
Day 2: One Entry, Two More Rules And More Prizes
Posted by on Monday, November 15, 2010 in - 6 comments
That is a photo of a beer. It was taken by Peter Bailey of Edmonton, Alberta at Sugar Beach at Kihei on Maui in Hawaii. That is the entire pool of entries to date. If the contest were over now, Peter wins it all. • It shouldn't be that way. Canadians like an effort, the struggle to beat the odds …
Gathering 2010's Yuletide Photo Contest Prizes
Posted by on Friday, November 12, 2010 in - 1 comment
People have been kind. Not to me. I see nothing of this stuff. They have been kind to you, the ambitious hair triggered photographer beer fan. The offer gifts. They offer reward. Me, I merely offer venue... and, of course, judgment. I judge your submissions as a fair judge but a singular one. You …
