In a previous post we asked our readers who fancy a Smugmug Pro account to send us their top bokeh picture to enter this poll.  Now is your turn to choose the winner by voting up your favorite picture.

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1. ADIDAP December Giveaway: Smugmug Pro Account

In the coming week, you will get the chance to win nothing less than a 1 year free Smugmug Pro account with a value of 150 usd.
Smugmug has been our generous sponsor for the 4th year in a row and we would like to thank them for supporting our photography community with their lovely giveaways.

What do I win

As already stated the giveaway is a one year free Smugmug Pro account, the benefits of having a Smugmug Pro are too many to list here but here are a few to get you started !

• Unlimited Bandwidth
• Unlimited Storage
• Your own domain name
• Ability to sell your pictures
• And much more, read here for more info…

The rules

The rules are pretty simple, here is what to do :

Send us your best bokeh image to our email address : contact [at] adidap.com. Your image should be at least 500px on the widest side.

In a 2 weeks time, we will create a poll with all the different photos we get  and ADIDAP readers get to vote for their favorite image aka the winner.

This is a great opportunity for you to show off your favorite bokeh shot or this can be the motivation you have been waiting for to learn this technique, we are sure it will come in handy in the upcoming holidays.

All featured images will be used only one time in the poll and will have full credits to their respective owners and a link back to their original page.

Best of luck for everyone and may the best picture win !

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1. Smugmug Pro Account winner vote
2. Apple-core giveaway
3. ADIDAP Flickr Round December 2011

Applecore offers an inexpensive and innovative solution to jumbled cables that all photographers detest.
The Applecore is a cord wrapper shaped like the core of an apple, designed to keep your electrical cables and cords organized and out of your way, while you focus on capturing that picturesque landscape before the lighting changes.
At only $5, everyone can afford this organizational aid.

How to win

All you have to do to win yourself an apple-core is simply post a picture of your cable mess on our facebook page.
I will go over the pictures and the top 5 photographers suffering from most mess get to win this organizational aid. ( There will be no need to ask people to “like” your photo ).

I know this is not a fancy giveaway like the ones we usually host, but I thought the apple-cores are pretty neat and wanted to share with adidap readers. Besides, the whole procedure will only cost you a minute or two.

Here are some pictures of the apple-cores – don’t forget to drop by the website for full details.

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Before introducing the winner, thanks for the guys behind ElegantThemes.com for letting us share “Deep Focus” their amazing photography theme with the community. Hopefully with such great themes, there will be more and more photography blogs built using WordPress.

Now, without more delay, here is the winner randomly chosen by one of our twitter followers :

So congratulations are in order for our dear reader Heidi Anne Morris who is kindly requested to reply back to this post and include a valid email address in the comment section.

For the unlucky ones, stay tuned, there is another premium wordpress theme giveaway during the following week ! Christmas did come early with adidap !

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1. Apple-core giveaway

That is why I am super excited about giving you the chance to win a premium wordpress theme from the very awesome ElegantThemes.com collection !

About the theme

Speaking from personal experience, Elegant themes offer one of the highest quality themes you can find online and at a very very competitive price.

There is great attention to details in each theme, amazing creativity and uniqueness in the design, great use of jQuery, valid, clean, smartly written code and most importantly the themes are easy to modify via a theme administration module.

For a 39$ annual fee you get unlimited access to an already existing set of 50 high quality wordpress themes and you get access also to future themes for a full year. Themes are added very frequently which makes it a great deal.

You can check out the full gallery here, also make sure to read about all the features, visit the great support forums and community , read the blog for future releases and news, become an affiliate and most importantly become a member.

As for our giveaway, the theme you get the chance to win is called Deep Focus and as the name says, it is photography oriented .

Here is the link for the live demo – enjoy the details and start imagining your photos in there !

How to win

To win this theme, during the next week, you simply have to leave a comment here and tweet the following :

“ff0000;"> I <3 #wordpress and I want to win DeepFocus from #elegantthemes.com and #adidap.com ”

Yes, that would be all ! Then our lucky number generator will choose a random tweet number and the lucky winner receives the theme for free – while others will have to buy the whole collection, who can resist such temptation !

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I have received 18 comments from people showing their interest in  the book and, to be fair for all, I randomly selected @KarenLynnn to pick the lucky winner!

Here is how it went on twitter :

So congratulations are in order for Fred , you have till Tuesday 23:59 GMT to claim your win by leaving a comment here, otherwise we will have to choose another lucky winner !

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I have received 32 people showing their interest in this and, to be fair for all, I randomly selected @jimgoldstein from jmg-galleries to pick the lucky winner!

Here is how it went on twitter :

So congratulations are in order for Stefan, you have till Friday 23:59 GMT to claim your win by leaving a comment here, otherwise we will have to choose another lucky winner !

I cannot forget to thank our wonderful sponsor Smugmug for always presenting us these wonderful giveaways.

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As already stated the giveaway is a one year free Smugmug Pro account, the benefits of having a Smugmug Pro are too many to list here but here are a few to get you started !

• Unlimited Bandwidth
• Unlimited Storage
• Your own domain name
• Ability to sell your pictures
• And much more, read here for more info…

The rules
I will keep it very simple this time, here is what to do

• Enroll in this giveaway by simply leaving a comment on this post, you can tell us a photography joke, share a link or anything on your mind.
• Tweet about it and make sure to include the link http://bit.ly/bn9SJi and hashtag #adidap.com.
• I can’t monitor this one but I’ll surely appreciate if you can subscribe to the RSS feed

The Schedule
This giveaway will run for one full week, next Monday April 12 we will use our random number generating machine to choose the lucky winner.

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I’ve also run into some minor issues like the fact that not all entries where collage but hey it is Christmas so I’ve accepted them nevertheless

Here are the entries

1. From Jesse

2. From Cody

3. From Andrea

4. From Stina

5. From Eduardo

6. From Luis

7. From Renay

8. From Ryan

Finally the winner was picked by random.org as Ryan.
Ryan you have 3 days to claim your prize by dropping a comment on that post or I will have to pick another winner

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So it is another chance for you to give it a try, with only 4 submissions your chances of winning are pretty pretty good.

Happy holidays to all

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I can’t say the project had a lot of entries but I would like to thank the 7 peoples who did take the time to participate and I am sorry for my poor performance in keeping it in a timely fashion.

Congratulations to Jesse Baynard for winning this project with 50% of all votes.

I would like to take the opportunity to remind you that there is a 1 year free pro smugmug account to be won right now at adidap (for a total value of $150) do not miss it!

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So, from December 1st till December 25th, I will be running a kind of photo project/contest at the end of which a one year PRO SMUGMUG account will be given generously offered by Smugmug team.

Prize details

1 year free Smugmug Pro account .

The benefits of having a Smugmug Pro are too many to list here but here are a few to get you started !

• Unlimited Bandwidth
• Unlimited Storage
• Your own domain name
• Ability to sell your pictures
• And much more, read here for more info…

What’s the project

1. From today and till December 25th document Christmas. Shoot what’s happening in your home, town and/or office. Decoration process, Christmas lights, kids playing, dinner around a fire in short any picture with a Christmas spirit in.
2. Put all these pictures in a collage like poster and post it on your blog/gallery.
3. Use the contact page to share the link with me by December 26th at the latest
4. If you are interested in the smugmug account make sure to subscribe to the rss feed and leave a comment on this post. If you have no use for a smugmug account you can still participate in the project just for fun!

That’s about it. Merry Christmas to all

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1. ADIDAP Flickr Round December 2011

I would like you to help me welcome our new sponsor Colormancer. For those who don’t know about it, here is a quick overview.

Colormancer is a color correction tool that lets you adjust the brightness, contrast, and saturation of your images without the color shifting of existing tools. Compared to Photoshop’s Hue/Saturation adjustment, the saturation in Colormancer does not exaggerate noise as it maintains constant luminance (saturation only affects saturation and not luminance).

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You can see more of Colormancer in action at the gallery page.

The licensed version of Colormancer can be bought directly from the eStore for $65 CAD (Canadian Dollars), as an adidap reader you are eligible for a 20% discount on Colormancer’s using the coupon “adidap” (without the quotes).

But this is not all, to make you play around more seriously Colormancer is also giving away one free version to the “Colormancer retouching contest” here are the rules

1. Subscribe to Adidap.com by rss or email
2. Download the watermarked demo of Colormancer
3. Pick any of your pictures and retouch it using Colormancer
4. Use the contact page to submit the before/after versions before Friday September 26th 2008
5. The most creative/original retouch will be will a free version of the plugin

Almost forgot to tell you that creators of Colormancer have a couple of free adobe photoshop plugins that can be downloaded here (they also work in Irfanview and Paint Shop Pro X2).

Happy editing !

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1. ADIDAP taking again submissions for POTW

A couple of days ago I sent to each one their ticket(s) number(s) and contact Luis Cruiz from Light Chaser Photography and asked him to pick up a number from 1 to 57.

In his reply Luiz said

Anyway, I used the RANDOM.ORG – Integer Generator to come up with 34.

So the winner is the holder of ticket number 34 and that is ladytwiglet !

Congratulations to ladytwiglet, to claim your free one year Smugmug pro account just drop a comment on this post.

Again I would like to thank Markham from SmugMug for sponsoring this giveaway.

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Time for a new giveaway ! By the end of May I’ll be giving away a 1 year Smugmug pro account

Prize details

1 year free Smugmug Pro account generously offered by Smugmug team.

The benefits of having a Smugmug Pro are too many to list here but here are a few to get you started !

• Unlimited Bandwidth
• Unlimited Storage
• Your own domain name
• Ability to sell your pictures
• And much more you can read about at Smugmug Pro page

How can I win ?

Rules are pretty easy this time, I missed our comments guys. Yep the number of comments has is drastically down so each comment you leave during May will count as one raffle ticket and a draw will take place in the first week of June to select the winner. I will kindly ask you not to spam the blog however, comments needs to be relevant of course

1. Subscribe to ADIDAP rss feed if you haven’t done so already
2. Comment on THIS post to secure your place in the draw
3. Leave comments on others posts
4. Enjoy…

Sounds fair and easy isn’t it ?

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