I vote for #3 (eating3.19.2.jpg). I like #2 as well, but I think #3 is more in keeping with the theme.

I'm partial to pic 1, but they're all great.

I would have cropped more so the skull is in line with the rule of thirds, but I'd say 2.
Here is my entry Entropy

I like number 2.

What BoPo said, except with 3.

That rocks, edgeways! I'll vote for ya.

As for mine, I lovelove #1. But other peeps always go for 2 or 3.

Actually, 4 is my fave, but I'm totally weird.

4 then 3 for entropy.

I like 2 as well. There's some kind of entropy - eating thing going on in my brain that says "that's the one".

I like 3, because the red thing is more in the center than at the edge, and looks eerily like a candle flame.

I don't like 2 quite as much for this theme, because there's too much context with the sign.

Wait, like, here they say:

Photos must be in JPG format, at least 2200 pixels wide or tall at 72dpi (so they look great in print), and under 10mb each.

But here they say:

Bigger is better! The minimum is 2200px, but the higher the resolution, the better.

(Under "How to get your photo published in JPG Magazine.")

Which do they want? High-rez or minimized to 72 DPI?

Wait, "...at least 2200 pixels wide or tall at 72dpi (so they look great in print)..." could mean 2200 pix AT a minimum 72 DPI, since DPI affects image size, right?

Seems like it.
And 1.

DPI = dots per inch
PPI = pixels per inch

These are not the same. (But that's a long and complicated story). Assume they mean 72 ppi and a standard 8 x 10 photo.

2200 pixels by x pixels (assuming standard photo proportions) = 2200 x 1760 (or 1760 x 2200).

So they're asking for something that prints at 24.444 inches x 30.556 inches (at 72 dpi).

Confused? We should be.

I think they mean a photo which is 2200 x 1760 pixels. This will look like it's about 24 by 30 inches on a standard computer screen (which displays at around 72 dpi). If you printed it at 72dpi, it would be 24' x 30' but it would look awful. When printed as an 8x10 it will have an actual resolution of, em, I think 220dpi. This should be ok for making a print.

Have a quick read here for a more intelligible answer.

I liked all of them but would pick the second one for pretty much the same reason as WolfDaddy. Maybe I'm being to literal or obsessing on words, but the plant life seems to be "eating" the word "heating" which in turn suggests laws of thermodynamics (and hence entropy). It just seems semantically richer.

Oops. " = inches, ' = feet. It would indeed look abysmal (or very arty) printed at 24 by 30 feet.

shane, those are the minimums, the absolute least. Go for as high as you can but don't go lower than the minimum.
Didn't mean to be slack.
Me tired.
Done with stuff.
Can go bathe now.

I am stunned. No picture of a brick wall belongs in any photographical theme related to "entropy."

Consider: a fair antonym to "entropy" is "life."

Life organizes matter into highly complex and predictable systems. The amount of order created is distinctly anti-entropy. It's been argued that organisms all produce waste, which is disordered, but I call *ahem* bullshit on that. For one thing: my feces is, predictably, composed of exactly the matter I can't use, every time. So even if you ignore the matter in my body, which is kept quite ordered, thank you, I am leaving behind very predictably ordered piles of matter everywhere I go. And when I do, a whole secondary (tertiary?) set of organisms begins working on it for food, turning it into even more predictable by products. I give you the Nitrogen Cycle, antithesis to entropy.

Sure, it can be argued that the overall amount of disorder always increases, but I insist that Life, by definition, works against entropy, at least locally.

And what better expression of that than some brick wall, built by some extremely well-organized proteins calling themselves human beings? Does the wall crumble? Do the corners of the bricks give way to the elements? Please. These surface scratches are nothing compared to the basic fact of the wall: a two-dimensional edifice to order, the separation of here from there, in from out. A regular pattern of stone holding its own particular line against time and space: what could be less entropic?


(sorry! none of the above!)

Just a comment on one of the other categories JPG has up currently. "Beauty redefined", clicking though most of the entries I begin to think that most people are a bit delusional when they submit to this category. 99% of submissions are rather more like "traditional beauty", and 1/4 of those just try too damned hard and end up being cringe worthy.

I liked 3 best.

I like 2 because of the context, h/eating, like WolfDaddy.

I'm with # 2.

and here's my entropy.

But I really want your vote over here. [may not be safe for work - artful nude breast]

Is that you, FlamingBore? Doing anything this weekend? Um, 'cuz, yaknow, photo buffs need to hang together an' all...
:-)

You be voted for!

Thanks, all. My #2 is cropped, and I don't know if lowering the dpi will resize it to what they want. It looks like I'll toss #3 in today. I e-mailed them a question about resolution, but they haven't replied.

Um, you can vote for me here. Like, um, if you wanna.

Life organizes matter into highly complex and predictable systems. The amount of order created is distinctly anti-entropy. It's been argued that organisms all produce waste, which is disordered, but I call *ahem* bullshit on that. For one thing: my feces is, predictably, composed of exactly the matter I can't use, every time. So even if you ignore the matter in my body, which is kept quite ordered, thank you, I am leaving behind very predictably ordered piles of matter everywhere I go. And when I do, a whole secondary (tertiary?) set of organisms begins working on it for food, turning it into even more predictable by products. I give you the Nitrogen Cycle, antithesis to entropy.

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No offense, scarabic, but you're being scary-bic. If you're not studying philosophy (or law), you should.

Heh. Nope, but I'll let my girlfriend know that you appreciate her form. And you know, if you want to come to Chicago to help me pack up, sure! ;)

I voted for alla y'all!

I still like #1 best.

And you know, if you want to come to Chicago to help me pack up, sure! ;)

Aww! Well, if I win the lottery and can take off work, I'll head straight to Chicago Friday.
;-)

Wait, no I won't. If I win the lottery I'll be lying on the floor in shock for days. But I'll pay you to come to OH and bring me food to eat while I lay about semi-comatose. It'll be a MeChaParty