Your christmas wonderlands!

Send me a picture of your fantasy winter wonderland and i will publish it in our community section!

Jpeg format 520 x 380 pixels preferred email to me at dana.vanmoer (at) gmail.com

(the picture above is my home at skybeam vistare)

Dana

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Miamai NEW MAINSTORE OPENING PHOTOCONTEST

I am really glad to announce to you the grand opening of the New Mainstore on july 4, 2009
in the new location:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Pegasos/48/162/24

I am holding a photocontest that will start on Saturday 4th and will last for 2 weeks.
Theme of the contest: "Reflections"
You are expected to participate with a portrait having "reflections" as the theme, and wearing a Miamai creation of your choice (clothes, skins, accessories, shoes).
The texture should be 512x512, full permission, and named "MiamaiContest_YourName".
You have time from july 4 to july 17 to send your entry to monica Outlander.
Just one entry per participant.

The entries will be exposed in the New Miamai Mainstore during the contest, and the jury will proclaim a winner that will be announced on july 19.

To the winner goes:
- a 3000 L$ Miamai Gift card
- an outfit named after her/him, that will become part of the Miamai Collection.
The winner will also appear in the advertising picture of the outfit.

The winner entry will be also featured in Miamai Blog.

Jury:
Chrissy Ambrose, owner of Virtual Impression
Aura Falta, owner of Tacky Star
Kay Fairey, Evane Models Agency CEO
ashianthy Shepherd, owner of Shapemania
SamR Miles, owner of Malice Music Club

Good luck to all the participants!

Our Blog:
http://miamaifashioncreations.blogspot.com/

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Special Grand Opening Event.....

First photo contest ever here at Virtual Impressions starting Wedneday 17th June until Wednesday 1st July

The 5 Most attractive Photos will be selected from amongst those submitted, Judged by myself & some of my wonderful vendor tenants here at Ekho.

The Winners will receive Prizes to the value of L$5000 each . This inludes Shoes and Jewelry from Virtual Impressions, Outfts kindly donated by Bliss Couture, and Azul, a 1000 Linden dollar shopping spree at Prism, Gift Vouchers from My Precious and Maimai and other Prizes. This is a contest certainly worth entering for those who love fashion of the hightest quality in sl.

Please Visit Virtual Impressions New Store at Ekho to Pick up details of how to enter, and contest rules.

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One World, One Hope, Two Lives, Two Looks

Greetings readers, I'd like to tell you about an organization that along with designers throughout SL, performs miracles. Not only that, I'd like to tell you about a few people who have been chosen to take part in this miraculous occurrence.......

Continued in the RFL section

Aryon Dagger

Makeover Magic consultant
2008 Makeover Magic participant
Media Team

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BNT estates

Today I was asked to take some pictures for the Land Expo being held in June, the pictures were for BNTs display and I happily stepped up as many know I love taking pictures and I know there are some lovely places on the estate.
I did not expect the quality I found though and some places were breath-taking.
Like Cypreana and Coppice - I was truly amazed at the beauty that has been created.
Take a look at the images or go and see the places for yourself - pictures can never do some of these sims justice.
Dana

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Photo contest winners!

The competition was fierce for this one with a lot of fantastic entries - great to see so much imagination in our readers. James and I had a tough time picking the winners but here are the top 3:

In first place Sophia Yates:
In 2nd place is Rag Randt:and in 3rd place our own Covadonga Writer:Congratulations to all!

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Snapshot of SL

Click for full size

Send us your snapshots with a single line of text and your avatar name,
if we like them we will publish them here. Email to dana.vanmoer(at)gmail.com

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Photo contest winner!

And the winner of the SL-Newspaper photocontest is : SLGigi Core !

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sl-newspaper photo contest

Click HERE to teleport to our Head office now

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No Limits!

Where did we end up this time? Click the image to find out

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Snapshot of SL

From Breezes Babii

Send us your snapshots with a single line of text and your avatar name, if we like them we will publish them here. Email to dana.vanmoer@gmail.com

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Photo Contest Winners!

Click to view the 8 best entries

Click images to see full size

Well done to all our entrants there were some amazing photos in this competition but I am sure you will agree with our choice of winners:

For best male swimwear Noelyci ingmann
Best Female swimwear Anessa Stine

Each wins L$3000

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Is there room for art in SL?

I waited for a while before talking about whether there is room for art in Second Life because of my previous personal involvement in a photo gallery. But having taken a step back, I want to raise the issue.

Is there room for art in Second Life? Can someone sell genuine art, whether it is photography, sculptures, music, or just any creative work?

Having run the Ally's Scenic Views photo gallery for almost a year before, I was highly disappointed with the lack of interest of most people towards art here. Sure, customers who purchased showed their appreciation for the photos, but there are other "industries" in SL that pay more. It is much easier to sell a gadget that took half an hour to script for L$500 than a stunning photo which required a high level of taste and skill to shoot for L$300.

I stopped counting the number of artists who told me that their works in SL do not cover tier for their land. Some lose money. Some have to heavily promote their art for no profit. Some rather provide services for those who want their wedding pictures or custom builds to generate money with their creativity.

The people who are ready to shell out a few cents for a decent piece of art seem few and far between. I even heard some naysayers say that selling a picture L$300 means making L$290 profit for something that can be found on Google Images and uploaded anyway. Such dishonest words.

Is there room for art in SL? Or should content creators focus on clothing, club supplies, skins and sexbeds because it is all that really works? I am afraid of the answer.

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Last day to enter TOMORROW

Wow its been a while since we did this! We are going to give away 6000 Lindens!

Take a photograph on a beach, this is a Best in beachwear photo competition

The winners, one female image one male, will each receive L$3000

rules:

The winning photographs must contain an avatar

Be taken in SecondLife
Some post production is allowed

Be submitted by email to:

jamestjuno@gmail.com

in jpeg format before the 11th of July

Submitting a photograph gives us full rights to publish it and use it in future publications and advertising.

please ensure you have the permission of any models you use.
Winners will be announced on the 19th of July in SL-newspaper group

I forgot to say please include your AVATAR name with the email

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PHOTO CONTEST

Wow its been a while since we did this! We are going to give away 6000 Lindens!

Take a photograph on a beach, this is a Best in beachwear photo competition

The winners, one female image one male, will each receive L$3000

rules:

The winning photographs must contain an avatar

Be taken in SecondLife
Some post production is allowed

Be submitted by email to:

jamestjuno@gmail.com

in jpeg format before the 11th of July

Submitting a photograph gives us full rights to publish it and use it in future publications and advertising.

please ensure you have the permission of any models you use.
Winners will be announced on the 19th of July in SL-newspaper group

I forgot to say please include your AVATAR name with the email

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PHOTO CONTEST

Wow its been a while since we did this! We are going to give away 6000 Lindens!

Take a photograph on a beach, this is a Best in beachwear photo competition

The winners, one female image one male, will each receive L$3000

rules:

The winning photographs must contain an avatar

Be taken in SecondLife
Some post production is allowed

Be submitted by email to:

jamestjuno@gmail.com

in jpeg format before the 11th of July

Submitting a photograph gives us full rights to publish it and use it in future publications and advertising.

please ensure you have the permission of any models you use.
Winners will be announced on the 19th of July in SL-newspaper group

I forgot to say please include your AVATAR name with the email

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The RFL photo Expo

Yesterday I took the opportunity of a rare quiet moment to go and take a look at some of the pictures donated for the photo expo and the quality of SLotography is amazing!
Find out more in the RFL section including a full line up of live music events this week at the expo!

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Photo Safari Contest

This Thursday, May 15th on Orange Island:Within the virtual confines of Orange Island, a space dedicated to creativity and innovation has been spawned. We call this special place "Create Programme."

full information can be found in the EVENTS section

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photoLIFE Brings Next Generation Photography to Second Life!

After doing research with several photographers and photo studio owners, OomPoppaMowMow Snookums armed himself with statistics on photo studio requirements then started the creation of his own unique studio, now known as photoLIFE.



Find out more in DESIGN

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Interview with Kim Gottlieb Walker

Recently a friend sent me an invite to a photography exhibit (Career Retrospective) in the Woodstock Sim by RL photographer Kim Gottlieb-Walker..
As soon as things began to rezz I realized I recognized some of the pictures I was seeing on the walls. kim was present for the openining and I asked her if she would like to do this interview..

Read the Interveiw by Delinda Dyssen in PEOPLE

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