The Picture This Photo Contest is one of our most popular features here at Gardening Gone Wild, and we couldn’t be happier. It has met – indeed, exceeded – all of our original goals for it, and we look forward to keeping the experience exciting, challenging, and fun for everyone. To that end, we recently ran a survey to get information about how and why you participate in Picture This (or why you don’t), as well as suggestions for things we can improve on. Let’s take a look at the results.
This month’s Picture This Photo Contest is the last one for 2009. With the winter months settling in, we decided to let the competition rest a bit so that it can return next spring raring to go. For this month of November, we are delighted to have another all star photographer judging the contest. Joshua McCullough is the creator of PhytoPhoto, a specialist collection of expertly identified botanical, horticultural and environmental photos: images supplied to a wide variety of print mediums. Once you click on his site, you’ll be hard pressed to leave it: his work speaks for itself. I’m sure you’ll agree that he is the perfect judge for this final Picture This Photo Contest of 2009.
This summer’s weather has had everyone scurrying all over the place. For those of you on the East coast, who would have ever thought that you would end up with such torrential rains and a cool summer? And for all of us who are living in drought riddern territories, we yearn for even a light, misty rain to remind us that moisture still exists. Needless to say, our thoughts are with everyone whose lives are being totally uprooted by the fires in California, as well as the 85,000 plus acres that have been destroyed.
On a lighter note, what is our wild and romping group of contributors up to these days? Continue Reading →
This Monday, October 15, is BLOG ACTION DAY, a first time event. Bloggers from around the globe will unite in order to write about a pressing issue: THE ENVIRONMENT.
The organizers of Blog Action Day are asking that everyone with a blog or website join this ‘call to action’ and let out the word. They are asking that bloggers post something about the environment in their own way and in relationship to their specific topics.
As of this moment, there are 10,092 blogs and websites that have signed up for Blog Action Day that will reach an audience of over 7,121,000.
Please participate in this very important event. We at Gardening Gone Wild feel that the environment is a critical issue that no longer can be ignored. As gardeners, we can’t afford to be laissez-faire about the impact that gardening has had over the past 60 some years on global warming: and how gardening with a conscience NOW will make a huge difference in helping to mitigate the effects of global warming in the future.
Sign up by clicking on: www.blogactionday.org
