Well, seeing the important bit has been identified .....
NIK Analog Efex Motion Blur (Old version) from FastStone
Jan. 20, 2026
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Now for something completely different:
David
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The burning car
DXO PL9 (same processing as for my first entry)
Corel PSP some kind of 'pencil' effect, crop -
DXO - Crop - Lights - reduced blue & yellow
a Pacific Day in a USA's Small Town Street
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Blended with G'MIC Artistic>Stylize Hokusa-san's "Great Wave" ...
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If I've figured out this UTC time stuff, there is about an hour and a half left to submit challenges to this thread.
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Ok, time for submissions is up. Now, it's time to vote for 24 hours. There are ties. Vote for your favorites!
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Exactly seven days from January 20, 2026, at 1:39 PM is
January 27, 2026, at 1:39 PMThere are
1 day, 11 hours, and 54 minutes until January 27, 2026, at 1:39 PMJust sayin'
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Well, I’m no Time Lord, but the instructions say to have images posted by “midnight UTC Jan 26th. Where did you get seven days? Maybe I overlooked that requirement since I copied and pasted the boilerplate, just changing the date? I just updated to a week following the previous posting date.
I’m Central Standard Time in the US so that would have been at 6:00pm Sunday, Jan 25 according to Google and other sources. Therefore, the contest “likes” totals will be at UTC midnight Jan 27th which for my time zone is Mon, Jan 26 at 6:00 pm.
The previous challenge may have run a day past the deadline, so that would also explain a shorter length since I didn't add an extra day to make up for that.
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Greg, Stormyboy, take it easy. All those deadlines are a bit floating - usually OP decides, when to put up reminders, when to close submission and when to close voting; all this by posting some message, not by looking at clock.
I personally follow just date, with some leeway - if I write "...posted by 26th January" then I'll wait for 27th January morning (in local time, UTC+2) - this way even American people can post their late submissions :) -
@ArvoJ
There is no need to tell me to take it easy; I couldn’t give two hoots about the time...😋
Around here there are seven days in a week.By the way, does anyone know how to set the clock on a VCR
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Whatever - let's have the votes please.
cheers
Alan
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My apologies to all for introducing UTC into the 'due by' dates. Much too precise by photographic standards ...
... but don't forget to account for the International Date Line (kidding).
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It was a tie between softmarmotte and RonP. Both were different and interesting, but I ended up choosing RonP because of his attempt to create a feeling of motion and anticipation in a still photo.
