After we got success in our first ever contest (the new year themed contest), now that we've found a dedicated sponsor for weekly contest, we've decided to announce a weekly contest every Friday with a dedicated theme for each week.

I know its not Friday anymore and I'm announcing the first weekly contest today as I was busy this Friday and you know, people gets busy and everything in Gaming Photo is manual by me.

I've seen peoples joining photography contests with this them in real life and I hope a lot of you also noticed and I see there's a dedicated community for that as well so I asked myself, "Why don't we follow this idea for a gaming contest?"

But as we're different than them and only talks about special gaming moments, you'll have to show us your gaming photography including shadows by any means.

This theme should be much easier comparing to the one we had before as most games nowadays gives you the chance to witness good shadows. You just need to find the best moments with the best shadows.

Rules:
As it's a contest, there should be some rules to follow, right? And these rules are not meant to be broken, lol.

• Publish a post in Gaming Photography Community showing some gaming photographs following the theme.
• Add the #gamingphotocontest and #contest in first five tags and then add tags suitable to your post.
• The post must be written in English (you can use other translations alongside English if you wish to).
• The post should have at least 350 original words in per language (excluding Hi, Hello, or some common things that you use in your post). You can talk about behind-the-scenes of how you implemented the idea to meet the word counts.
• Show at least 7 photos showing some good shadows. They can be photos from seven different moments or can be a single moment from seven different angles.
• Leave your entry as a comment to this announcement post so we don't miss your entry.
• Attach the link of this announcement post in your entry so your readers can check this out.
• Mention some of your gamer friends in Hive in your post that you think might be interested in joining the contest (not mandatory).

Rewards:
I bet you want to know what you'll get as a reward after winning or joining the contest so here we are.

• Upvotes from our dedicated sponsor, @Qurator (thanks to @scrooger).

  • The Winner = 30% upvote, 1^st Runner UP = 20% upvote, 2^nd Runner UP = 10% upvote.

• Total 6 Hive.

  • The Winner = 3 Hive, 1^st Runner UP = 2 Hive , 2^nd Runner UP = 1 Hive.

• Total 900 Ecency Points.

  • The Winner = 400 Points, 1^st Runner UP = 300 Points, 2^nd Runner UP = 200 Points.

• 5 Staked HP from @incublus.

  • The Winner = 3 HP, 1^st Runner UP = 2 HP.

• Possible curation (from other curation services) for all valid entries that has decent effort (not guaranteed).

• Use #indiaunited tag in first five tags to get a good chance of curation from India United community. Subject to quality and resources availability (thanks to @theindiankid, a curator of India United)

Current Sponsors: @Qurator is our dedicated sponsor for the weekly contests who'll upvote first 3 winners every week, @theindiankid = 4 Hive and 300 Ecency Points, @pravesh0 = 2 Hive and 300 Ecency Points, @gamingphoto = 300 Ecency Points.

We're looking for more sponsors and we'll keep looking throughout the deadline of the contest so there is a chance for he rewards to increase later. If you wish to be a part of the sponsors (no matter how little it is), send it to @gamingphoto with the memo "contest" and I'll update it in this post.

Deadline to join the contest is: 5 days (120 hours) after this post is announced.

We suggest you (members of the community and contestants of the contest) to check what others are contributing to this community and engage with them through your comments, upvotes, and follows which would make the community stronger in the long run.

You can help the community in several ways,

• Consider delegating a portion of your HP to @gamingphoto which will be used to reward good content.
  

  | 50 HP | 100 HP | 200 HP | 300 HP | 500 HP | 1000 HP |

• You can gift @ecency points to @gamingphoto which will be used to boost quality content or maybe to sponsor contests within the community.

The pictures used in this post (excluding the thumbnail picture as that one I captured from my play) are the property of Canva text to image and I edited all pictures in Canva.

^{All liquid rewards of this post will be used to power up the account at the starting of each month so we may join the hive power up day as well.}