Competition: Your Home Planet

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Your Home Planet

Photography Prompt: You! Yes you! You live somewhere, don't you? Do you sometimes wish that you could live on a planet somewhere in the Star Wars universe? WELL NOW YOU CAN!!

To enter this competition, you must take a photo of the landscape in your area. This photo can be taken with any camera, or smartphone. Then, find a canon planet that your landscape best resembles. Write a brief summary on what planet you have chosen to depict, and why you think this photo best depicts that planet. You can also choose to depict a specific place on a specific planet.

Please keep your photo within landscape content. Try to keep animals, technology (unless you're depicting an urban environment),and people out of your photo. The only editing I will allow on these photos are brightness changes, and contrast changes. You cannot alter the photo any other way! Please choose a planet within the DJB Star Wars canon. In order to find ideas, I would recommend checking out the DJB wiki for planet lore and history.

Judging Criteria: overall effort, creativity in planet choice, description, picture's content, focal-point of the photo, focus, lighting (yes it's a freebie), and comparison of your photo with the planet.

You can either upload a photo straight from your camera/smartphone, or scan a photo and upload it. To alter the brightness/contrast of your photo, please go into your camera's settings, or use a program such as photoshop or PicMonkey. If you use any other enhancements besides contrast or brightness, you will be automatically disqualified. Save that for another competition, guys!

This is a new type of competition. The goal of this is to try something new, and have a lot of fun! So go out there.. be creative. Enjoy yourself. :)

-Alara

Competition Information
Organized by
Alara Deathbane
Running time
2016-01-11 until 2016-03-18 (2 months)
Target Unit
Clan Scholae Palatinae
Competition Type
Graphics/Multimedia
Awards
Third Level Crescents
Participants
9 subscribers, of which 8 have participated.
Results
Member
Adept Reiden Palpatine Karr
File submission
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Textual submission

The planet I have chosen to represent in my photo is Ptolomea. Ptolomea is a planet filled with beautiful forests, thick jungles, mountain ranges, and stunning coastlines. Some economic benefits of the planet include a stone quarry and various mining operations. In this picture, you see one such mining effort. However, the tunnel experienced a cave-in many years ago, and this particular branch of the mining tunnels has been abandoned for safety reasons.

Placement
1st place
Member
General Zentru'la
File submission
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Textual submission

The photo is from a 2000 year old Roman Hot Spring bath in the City of Bath, Somerset, England. The steam is from naturally occurring hot water.

Crevasse City (Alderaan) - 'It was considered one of the Twenty Wonders of the Galaxy by the historian Vicendi in his 10,000 BBY publication Arturum Galactinum.' ... 'The lowest levels of the crevasse remained untouched throughout Alderaan's history and featured a maze of caverns containing beautiful crystal formations, hot springs and underground lakes.' - Wikipedia. A city considered beautiful and one of the wonders of the galaxy, complete with hot springs? And the architecture seems to be primarily stone based? This city seems very similar to the Roman settlements in Europe, and there's no finer preserved Roman Hot Spring in the world than the one photographed here.

Placement
2nd place
3rd place
Qor Kith
Member
Qor Kith
File submission
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Textual submission

Taanab was a planet located on the Perlemian Trade Route. The world was home to several agricultural projects which create food used to feed billions of inhabitants of Mid Rim and Outer Rim worlds. The Alliance to Restore the Republic pilot Wes Janson was born on Taanab.

This photo best depicts the planet of Taanab because it resembles an idyllic and tranquil setting inside of a wealthy environment. They know of war due to the Imperial Empire coming for their food stocks and battling over their orbit, so fortifications and guards have been placed across the lands, resulting in these castle-like buildings you see. Technology doesn't need to advance any further because their only export is food, so many races of arboreal origin enjoy this isolated region.

Placement
3rd place
4th place
Elad Cirith
Member
Elad Cirith
Submission
Elad Cirith opted out of publishing his submission.
Placement
4th place
Member
Blade Mistress Shadow Nighthunter
File submission
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Textual submission

The planet I chose for this photo to depict is Dantooine. Reason I have chosen for this photo to depict Dantooine, is because Dantooine is a rural planet with mostly plains and some forests. My photo shows fields where livestock graze with some trees in the area.

Placement
5th place
6th place
Sage Enzo Dek
Member
Sage Enzo Dek
File submission
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Textual submission

I don't have any editing skills. However, this photo was taken in a region of Albania called "Valbona" (I took it myself). It's the start of the Alps at the southern part. It would be placed well as Judecca because this shows a mountainous area near a dry river, much like the equatorial region of Judecca.

Placement
6th place
Member
Maximus Alvinius
File submission
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Textual submission

This would be my version of Tatooine here in Southern California.

Placement
7th place
Member
Tribune Kanal O'neill
File submission
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Textual submission

The early morning skies of Corulag are often so beautiful. The green grass and trees and even fields were a thing of beauty. Delak hadn't looked upon them since he joined the Dark Jedi Brotherhood because someone had usurped his throw when he had been believed dead.

Placement
8th place