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FirstCat - welcome, welcome one and all. Since so many of you photograph your pets, here's a FirstView/FirstBench-style monthly picture challenge for you to aim at. Now, I know it says First
Cat, but that's just because cats seem to be the most common one that people photograph and post on internet photography forums. Plus it rolls off the tongue better than FirstPet, so just get used to it.
It applies to any pets, and if you happen to extend the definition of 'pets' to the wild birds on your garden feeders, or the livestock in the fields up the road, well, I don't suppose anyone is going to make too much of a fuss about it.
So, no need to get all catty becasue your pet isn't a cat. No need to get the bird. You're not in the dog-house, and there's nothing fishy going on. [Stop me, someone -
please!
] Just take whatever pet or animal pics you want to and muck in. We're all quite relaxed here about that sort of stuff.
Quite how it will run hasn't been decided yet - and that's where we need to start. Have your say - what kind of a challenge do you want it to be? There won't be any actual prizes, beyond maybe a title, monthly forum display medal (like the ARSEs already awarded for FirstBench), but you don't need prizes, really, do you? Nevertheless, we have to decide other things, like what actually will be the challenge each month? Is it just a question of submitting any pet pic you want to, or do you want a monthly theme to it? What will the voting look like - a simple 'vote for your favourite'- poll, or different categories? Loads of stuff like that to decide, so get on and start kicking ideas around. It's pretty much all up to you.
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