Weekend Task #40 - Creepy

[Jan1977]

Weekend Task #40 - Creepy
Although it is not my cup of tea, Halloween is coming up so this week's theme is "creepy", but it does not need to be Halloween related. The photo should show something that has the intent to be or look creepy, bring on a creepy atmosphere or creepy in some other of sort of way you feel the judges at this forum will award you the win . No (real) violence of course and post processing with the intent to strengthen the photo for the theme is allowed.

This will be a voting week.

This challenge begins when posted and ends at noon GMT on Monday November 3rd 2025
After that voting will commence and will be open to noon GMT the next day.

The WET Rules: ​

The General Image rules:​

1. Camera: Any CAMERA is allowed (images from scanned film are also allowed);
2. Post only ONE photo;
3. Time: Any on-topic photo taken at any time is eligible, although photos that have won other competitions here should NOT be entered;
4. Size: Maximum image size is 1600px on the long end. Minimum size is 800px;
5. Post Processing: Do whatever you like, and the host/voters will decide if it works;
6. Title your image;
7. Posting: ONE PHOTO per photographer per challenge.
8. Commenting: No commenting and/or Likes during challenge. After the challenge is closed and the winner is known, discussion is encouraged;
9. Keep it clean, and both family and work safe;
10. Have lots of FUN;
11. This text is available in a sticky. Copy the text and paste it in the new thread or quote it and remove the quote tags.

The rules for choosing the winner in a voting week:​

1. Once the challenge is closed on Monday noon GMT, voting will commence;
2. The voting window will be closed 24 hours later on Tuesday noon GMT;
3. People who didn't enter a photograph are also allowed to vote;
4. Contestants cannot vote on their own image;
5. Voters must cast 3 votes. Any fewer and the votes will be discarded. The only exception is if there are fewer entries in which case all must be included in the votes;
6. The votes will be tallied as follows: 1st Place = 3 points, 2nd Place = 2 points, and 3rd Place = 1 point;
7. The host of the challenge may also enter a photo and is encouraged to do so;
8. Should the host win, the runner up will host the next challenge, so as to avoid the same person hosting in two consecutive weeks;
9. In case of a tie, the host will make the final decision;
10. After the challenge has ended, everyone is invited to comment on the images and/or provide feedback on their vote choices!

The rules for choosing the winner when the hosts chooses the winner:​

1. When the hosts decide to choose the winner him/herself, the rule is simple: he or she picks the winner;
2. The host is encouraged to give us his/her thoughts on the competing images;
3. The host is not allowed to submit an image of his/her own.

Hosting:​

1. The challenge host is the winner of the last challenge;
2. Once your win is announced, go to Games, Competitions and Challenges and choose "Post thread";
3. In the top (title) line, enter Weekend Task #X - Your Topic
4. Copy / paste the sticky in your new thread, fill in the right data (title, description, data etc.) and click "Post thread", at the bottom of the page. Or simply click the QUOTE button and then in your new thread choose INSERT QUOTE, toggle off the BBcode, remove the QUOTE buttons and toggle on the BBcode button again. Detailed instructions for that are here.
5. Soon after noon GMT on the next Tuesday, post the sum of the votes for first, second, and third place. No ties, please;
6. If the winner can't be contacted and doesn't respond by Wednesday noon GMT, the second-place winner will host the challenge. If both are unavailable, the third-place winner will host.

Link to Sticky with template.
Link to Rob's spreadsheet for tallying the votes.

>> THE WINNER ALWAYS SETS THE THEME FOR THE NEXT CHALLENGE AND HOSTS IT - PLEASE BE PREPARED AND ON TIME >>

 

[greatgrandma]

Jack Pumpkinhead

 

[Jan1977]

You better stay away here

 

[pcs]

My apologies to Terry McDaniel.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

 

[LtDave]

 

[Terry McDaniel]

 

[RDWP]

Lots of Halloween decorations around right now but this one is the creepiest I've seen. What is it with the evil clowns?

 

[MMP]

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Confined

 

[Terry McDaniel]

Deleted, didn’t know I violated a rule.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Whoa, what happened here?

 

[StephenM]

Late entry, although this is the image I had in mind from the start - it just took a while to find it!

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

I made a few edits to the thread.

When somebody makes a mistake and violates a rule in a game or competition and you want to point that out, please be gentle. Or report it so a staff member can take care of it.

Thanks!

 

[Jan1977]

It has been noon GMT, so the voting starts .

Voting is possible till noon tomorrow. Due to my working schedule, I'm not sure I will be able to count the votes directly at noon, may take me 1 or 2 hours more .