Apple iPad Prizes in Autumn Lenzr Photo Contests
August 30, 2010 by deblewis
Filed under Photo Contest
The Best Photographs win iPads in three Lenzr photo contests that end Oct 1st 2010
Lenzr appeals to web savvy shutterbugs of all ages and skill levels who know they can upload very specific images into friendly competitions in exchange for real prizes; three Apple iPads are being dispensed this month in separate but equally exciting challenges that end Oct 1st 2010. These contests are populated with user submitted photos. The members also vote, and by selecting their favourites, they pick the winners.
The View From The Roof photo contest is taking in all sorts of slightly elevated cityscapes and wonderful landscapes from all across Canada. There are strange and slightly elevated views from the roofs of buildings and farm silos alongside business flat roofs in downtown Toronto. Images from all across the nation are collecting in the contest queue; shots from Ontario are viewed beside submissions from British Columbia and Canada’s Maritime Provinces. There are even some colourful cityscapes that were lensed half a world away…
The contest is sponsored by an industrial roof repair service that installs a white extremely durable ToughRoof system in the greater Toronto Area. Dan Sheridan is a flat roof repair specialist and there’s a lot more information about his company, All Weather Roofing on the Lenzr blog and there’s even a picture of Dan Sheridan on a thread published about View from the Roof photo contest on Toronto Forums.
The Morning Sunshine photo contest requires getting up really early and taking pictures at the crack of dawn. Its a magic hour thing and in the morning is when the magic happens. Submit shots of the purple sky and yellow moon above the pink granite at the Havelock Bluegrass Festival. Now do you feel it? Morning is a special time and the first rays of sunlight have travelled farther than all others and they’ve often been bent out of shape and into a warm glow by the heavy atmosphere of a misty morning in late summer. Look at Michael Reichmann’s image on the left. He generously donated his shot of a ‘Barn At Sunrise’ which perfectly illustrates the contest theme.
The contest is made possible by the generous donation of an Apple iPad from a portable solar power generator (PSG’s) assembly firm in Ontario. These guys custom design and manufacture trailers that have solar panels on the top and all the tools and equipment your business needs inside – wherever possible they hope to replace gas and diesel generators in favour of battery powered and solar recharged inside their ‘Mobile Solar Work Units’ which are very cool. This company makes Canada look good, and green. Although they’re located here in southern Ontario, they’ll ship product anywhere in the world.
The Solarline Mobile Solar Work Units are clever and clean and efficient. Most importantly, they deliver clean renewable energy. With one solar panel hinged on top you can charge batteries to power a wide array of tools and equipment.
People Building Things photo contest is easy to enter and win. Although the topic does require pictures of humans and they must be building something, anything showing any form of construction with any size people will no doubt be accepted in the match.
This iPad prize was provided by a solar powered deck building company that uses a custom built Solarline Power work unit which is also their equipment trailer. The firm was founded by a few forward thinking craftsmen that intend to make a market for sustainable business and tehir vision of the future includes green construction sites as part of a planet saving solution. Matt and company build backyard fences, gazebos, and wooden decks of all shapes and sizes using the energy they collect from the sun. There’s more information about EcoDeckBuilder on the Lenzr blog.
In all three web challenges, the registered member that uploads the highest ranked photo WINS IPAD! Voting begins September 20th 2010, the highest ranked photo wins prize when the Contest Ends Oct 1st, 2010. Must be 13yrs old or older to enter, open to all Canadians, contest not valid in Quebec.
Six things to do this Summer
July 7, 2010 by deblewis
Filed under Other, Past Events, Uncategorized
Sing Karaoke
Belting out a tune at the top of your lungs is a great way to spend a summer night with your friends in the city.
Even better, watch as Canadian Idol judge Zack Werner judges other karaoke enthusiasts at C Lounge on July 15, 2010 at 7:30 pm
http://www.clubzone.com/c/Toronto/Lounge_Bar/C_Lounge.html
Visit Polson Pier
This awesome waterfront space has everything for a perfect summer afternoon. Beach volleyball, a pool, mini putt and go karts!
Take a Cooking Class
With so many fresh fruits and vegetables being produced right here in Ontario, summer is the best time to learn how to use them in the kitchen.
Renowned chef Paul Boehmer can help you out – join him for an interactive cooking class on July 17, 2010 at 1 pm to learn, cook and taste at the newly-opened Boehmer Restaurant.
Visit the AGO
Too hot to be outside? Step inside for a fun cultural experience. The air conditioner will keep you cool.
Visit the AGO for a private tour exploring Love and Lust through Art and finish with a wine and cheese tasting on July 17, 2010 at 2pm
Learn how to make a great cocktail
Nothing is better than a delicious cocktail after a long hot summer day.
Learn how to mix the perfect cocktail at Toronto hotspot BarChef so you can show off your skills to your friends. Join master mixologists and compete in an Iron Chef-style mixing competition on July 17, 2010 at 2 pm.
http://www.barcheftoronto.com/
See a show at the Mod Club
Mod Club is a music institution. Sweaty summer shows at Mod Club make for a Saturday night to remember.
Join DJ MRK and recording artist Jason Derulo at Mod Club on July 17, 2010 at 8 pm.
http://www.myspace.com/jasonderulo
For more details and to purchase tickets for these great summer events, visit http://www.lavalifetopsingles.com/en/Events.aspx#sat2
Three Wacky Lenzr Photo Contests END July 1st
June 4, 2010 by deblewis
Filed under Ontario, Photo Contest, Toronto
There are three equally fascinating and wonderfully diverse photo contests on Lenzr this month. The prizes are every bit as imaginative as the themes, and voting on images is entertainment. Take a look at the serial photo contest website for amusement, if nothing else. Lenzr is the place where the membership decides who wins the prize. Go here to marvel at the creative submissions that have already been added to the index, and the generosity of the prizes… Ask yourself, which photo will win? Which photo do I want to win?
The 50 Going On 15 photo contest is downright absurd, and so is the prize.
The 50 Going On 15 photo contest on Lenzr will reward the member that uploaded the highest rated photo with over 50 lbs of dark chocolate as a prize!
This challenge is sponsored by an emerging baby boomer magazine for people over 50 in Toronto. The content is written by and for fifty year old people living in this great city.
Winning this contest might be more of a curse than a blessing esp if you are a woman over 50 and trying to lose weight. You can read more about this over 50 magazine sponsor and prize on the Lenzr blog.
Crowded Places might just give people a new reason to appreciate traffic jams.
A highly respectable Toronto web developer is generously offering a Blackberry curve phone as prize in the crowded places photo contest on Lenzr.
The contest asks crowd photographers and budding anthropologists to submit shots of large gatherings of people, and use the caption to tell stories. A Lenzr photo contest can be decided by the quality of the story hook in the caption, as often as the quality of the photography itself, which tends to be wonderfully amateur, raw and inspired.
The Portable Luxury contest is also kinda weird. The theme asks for images of the handiest conveniences you can take with you on the run. The Portable Luxury photo contest on Lenzr is looking for exceptional storyfull pictures that highlight things you could stuff in a knapsack that would make you feel more at home wherever you end up in the world – basically how do you move your comfort zone?
The theme is certain to glimpse hand-held conveniences and inventions that nicely define the differences between humans from animals. Beautiful expensive jewellery will no doubt be popular, but also advanced tech gadgets. And a thermos full of expensive coffee, anyone?
The prize is a Las Vegas vacation for two people courtesy of the contest sponsor, a portable toilet rentals company that’s arranged to provide airfare and hotel accommodation for two people for three days and two nights in Las Vegas.
Lenzr admin hopes the winner will be generous with photos and stories of the adventure in Las Vegas, for the Lenzr blog.
Must be over 18 to enter and win this contest, and you must be Canadian and unfortunately Lenzr photo contests are still not translated into French language and therefore still not available in Quebec.
What happened last month? There is a full chronology of who won what contests on Lenzr? last month written up in the Lenzr blog on site.
Backyard Party Events was a rather queer web challenge because the actual photo contest sponsor won, and yes… that’s allowed. Or at least there is no rule against it. But don’t go thinking it was deliberate or that it was a mistake because it wasn’t… It wasn’t a mistake because his photo was really terrific.
John Kenyon the marketing director at Absolute Tent and Event Services actually won his own company’s Lenzr photo contest. But of course he yielded to second place, because the last thing he needs is another $500 gift certificate or a 10×10 pop up tent. And he admits, that he yielded because of the strength of the second place submission, which was his personal favourite picture uploaded to the entire online event.
But Instead of hogging the company’s generous prize for himself, John gave it to a member named ‘Sausma’, (2nd place photographer) for a picture she submitted called ‘He Really Nailed That Pig’.
Here’s Sandra Ausma the 2nd place contestant standing beside John Kenyon in front of the loading dock at Absolute Tent and Event Services at 185 Eastern avenue in Toronto.
Sandra’s photo was excellent; she totally deserves the 10×10 pop-up tent, and the $500 gift certificate to be spent on anything and everything this unique Toronto party rentals warehouse stocks.
Thanks everyone who participated in this Lenzr photo contest.
LG Innovators Ball
March 23, 2010 by deblewis
Filed under Other, Past Events
On May 6, 2010 The Ontario Science Center will be transformed into a wonderland of sensational surprises and unexpected delights for the 4th annual LG Innovators’ Ball.
Enter the enchanted world of Midnight Spell with food, drink, decor and entertainment that will have you second guessing your senses.
Dance the night away while feasting on scrumptious appetizers and imbibing potions and elixirs concocted specially for this event.
Date: Thursday, May 6, 2010
Time: 8:30pm – 1:30 am
Location: Ontario Science Center, 770 Don Mills Road
Cost: $150 per ticket
Purchase your tickets soon!
Phone System Installer and Toronto Dentist Make Lenzr Photo Contests
January 30, 2010 by deblewis
Filed under Photo Contest
Friends of Deb Lewis and City Events, and casual surfers who may happen across this blog update will know its time for an update at the end of January, 2010 from Lenzr. Let’s pause to remember that Lenzr is a serial photo contest website wherein the members rank user submitted content and choose the best photo. The member that uploads the highest ranked photo wins the prize.
Isabelle Seguin, who is otherwise known as Lenzr member Seguini was the photographer that submited the winning image in Medicinal Plants in Nature photo contest sponsored by an Ontario natural medicine clinic she is seen here holding a basket with eight different Neal’s Yard Remedies including Rosewater Toner, Yarrow & Comfrey Moisturizer, Orange Flower Facial Oil and Orange Flower Facial Wash, White Tea Eye Gel, Geranium & Orange Body Butter. The prize has a retail value of $330.00 all of these products are available for purchase in the sponsor’s online natural medicine store. You can read more about the winners and the results of all three contests and the January 1st 2010 Lenzr photo contest winners on the Lenzr blog.
Office Phone System Engineer Creates a Lenzr Quest for Everyday Tangled Webs – Ends March 1st
The excitement is building as the Top Ten photos are constantly moving up and down in this category. The eighth photo contest Everyday Tangled Web is designed to collect and display images of the tangles that we create and use everyday. This challenge has become a heated competition with several excellent photos competing for top position in the index. There are wires and telephone lines and speaker cables and computer cords all mixed up under desks, and AC electrical cords spider web octopuses at outlets. This contest theme and the mayhem that has resulted from the idea was the brainchild of an office phone system guru living and working in Toronto. That company conceived of the idea and has donated the wonderful prize, a wireless headset.
Toronto dentist sponsors Kids in Action
Also available on Lenzr this month is a rather interesting new photo contest called Kids in Action that gives shutterbugs lots of creative latitude on a wide open playing field.
The prize in this challenge is a high quality NiteWhite teeth whitening kit that’s an advanced enamel bleaching product and usually only available at a dental office as it requires a trained dental practitioner to make the molds.
Sponsored by Toronto dentist the unique challenge is designed to highlight the obvious connection between healthy teeth and healthy kids… and trust me there is a connection there somewehere!. When I look at that contest plate picture I wonder if that young fellow see riding the skateboard is about to fall and fracture his jaw, or tear his front teeth or mash his molars into the concrete. But please dont misuinderstand we dont want to see photos of tooth decay, dirty braces, gum disease or missing baby teeth or anything like that … just kids in action.
If the winner is local, that person who is super skilled with a comera will be invited to stop by the office at Bloor and Sherbourne for a chat and custom fitting for the NiteWhite whitening trays. If the winner is from out of province then admin will ship the prize PLUS extra tooth floss and toothbrushes, toothpaste, and mouthwash. WIN dental supplies for an entire year.Both Lenzr contests END March 1st 2010. Contest open to all Canadians excluding Quebec and those 12yrs old and younger. Thanks for participating. Good luck!