About PhotoBlink Contents

• PhotoBlink is a photographic forum/competition site that is built on the basis of the contests of posted photographs and the comments to these photographs. Its purpose is to provide simulation of a real life competition for advanced and professional photographers and to educate amateur enthusiasts.
• In order to obtain the maximum out of PhotoBlink, we recommed you read the detailed help we provide.

• PhotoBlink is designed, programmed and maintained by me, Dr.Sergei Samus, your Webmaster.
• I am greatly supported by my wife Tania who shares my passion for photography and gives me much inspiration in all I do, and my daughter Asya who helps me programming the site when she is not busy with her schoolwork.
• This site is a result of my love to photography. I try to actively participate as a member in the PhotoBlink competitions whenever I can. Here you can find my portfolio.
• You can contact me at ssser@photoblink.com

• Material, presented on all PhotoBlink pages is copyrighted by its webmaster and by the contributing photographers.
  All image copyrights belong to the photographers. However, once a photo is submitted to PhotoBlink, it is considered having been published on PhotoBlink, thus becoming a natural part of the design of the site, which is copyrighted. Therefore, we retain our rights for the indefinite internal publication of all submitted images, within the site or using PhotoBlink Smart Tags/Scripts ©.
  Any other usage of the submitted photographs, apart from their internal display on PhotoBlink will require the authors' permissions.
• By sending a photograph to PhotoBlink, you confirm your authorship for that image. If, under special circumstances, you would like to submit someone else's photograph, you have to explicitly mention the author of the image and confirm that the author gave you the permission to send this photo to PhotoBlink.
• All rights are reserved. No part of this website may be copied by any electronic means, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from the authors.
• Under normal circumstances, PhotoBlink provides the facility for the removal of your photographs. However, the removal an image might not be possible, if this action affects the integrity and the aesthetics of the site design. For example, if the image belongs to one of the PhotoBlink top photos collections.
• When posting a photo or a comment, you must give a real, working e-mail address.
• Sent images should be in .jpg format. Image size should not exceed your maximum allowed limit.
• Image width should not exceed 3000 and height should not be greater than 2000.
• Please provide descriptions and technical details to your images.
• The limit of your submissions depends on the type of your membership. Each user can send up to a certain number of works per week, but per day, they can also send no more that their allowed daily-limit. On the Send Photo page, the number of photos you may still send is indicated.
• The main purpose of posting to photosites for the majority of photographers, is to get constructive critique. Please take commenting seriously, and leave comments on the works of fellow photographers. We ask you to be polite at all times, and try to make your comments useful to the authors and other participants.
• If you are a Basic Member of PhotoBlink, you will get the right to vote after posting 10 photographs. Before this, use your time to get acquainted with the site and its participants, and to become its active user.
  Primary Members have the advantage of being able to vote instantly.
• We suggest the following system of rating:
  10: Inspirational.
  9:  Excellent.
  8:  Very Good.
  7:  Good.
  6:  Interesting.
  5:  Average.
  4:  Interest Unclear.
  3, 2, & 1: Experimenting. There is not a basic level of photographic     competency evident.          more>>
  scale introduced by Richard However, one should expect some dispersion of scores, as we are all different, and we all have different opinions.
• The votes should be based on merit of the photo only and not on personal attitude to the photographer.
• This site cannot be a place for participants, trying to cause moral pain to other photographers by hurtful commenting and/or unfair low scoring, any vengeance will not be tolerated. Their scores will be neutralized, and they will be banned from using this site without any further discussion.
• Do not try to cheat our voting system.Each author may only vote once for each photograph.
  Attempts of using multiple accounts for the purpose of getting advantages over the other participants by multiple scoring will be followed by the disabling of the voting facilities on all the accounts.
• Any photographs of indecent content will be deleted.
• Any photographs advertising racism will be deleted.
• Photographs advertising cruelty will be deleted.
• Blue voting is anonymous, but if your vote differs greatly from that of the other voters, or if it looks unfair and hurts the author, you may be asked to provide comments when you vote, even if grey voting wasn't used, and you will have to do so.
  Please note, that if your voting consistantly deviates strongly from the average, then your scoring corridor will automatically be narrowed, or it may even be turned off alltogether.
• In case of violation of the rules, the Webmaster issues a warning to the offender. The Webmaster also retains the right to reveal the offender's name and their scoring (partially or completely) to other participants of the site. If the offending behaviour continues, the offender's account may be closed without any further notice.
• All nude photographs (Nu) are subjects for the Webmaster's review and consideration. If a nude photo is found unacceptable for viewing on PhotoBlink for ANY reason by the Webmaster, it will be removed without further discussion and explanation.
  As a general rule, no nude children photos, or highly erotic photographs are accepted.
• In every of the above cases the decision will be made by the webmaster and it will be final. No discussions or explanations will follow.
• PhotoBlink shall not be liable to its users or any other party for any damages, arising from or related to the content, promotions, advertisements, or any other information provided by the users of PhotoBlink.
• Under no circumstances shall PhotoBlink be liable for any intellectual property infringement claims or actions or for any libel claims or actions arising from the information placed on this site by its users.
PhotoBlink will not be liable for any loss, damages, claims or injury, etc., that accompany or result from the use of this website or any other website, accessible from PB, caused by
• the use or inability to use the web site or links found on its pages
• errors, bugs or failure in performance or our provider’s problems or line failure
• computer viruses
• PhotoBlink shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, special, consequential or incidental damages and expenses related to or arising from any access or use of this web site or any other site, a link to which may be found on its pages. If the law in any state may not allow us to exclude or limit liability for incidental or consequential damages, and the claimant may have the right to recover these damages, then our liability to the claimant for all losses, damages, injuries or claims of any kind will not be greater than the amount of money that the claimant paid to access this site.
• These rules may be revised and updated in the course of time.