Dear Members -;
Please note that, due to the website being down for almost 2 weeks now, I have asked for the extension of the CLOSING DATE for the above competition to be the 6th November @ 6pm.
FIRST STEP: 1) Log in to the HPG website 2) Click on arrow UNDER your name 3) Click on YOUR ACCOUNT 4) Click on ENTRIES SUMMARY 5) Click on Hastings Photography Group 2024 6) Scroll DOWN, way down the page (!!) to get to ENTRIES LIST BY SITE 7) Click on HPG 8) Click on 2024 and your images will appear. 9) At the bottom of your images you’ll see blue DOWNLOAD buttons. 10) Decide which image you’d like to enter in DIOTY, and make a note of it’s title 11) Click on the image’s Download button 12) The image will appear (big) on your screen 13) RIGHT-click on the image and choose SAVE AS 14) Choose DESKTOP to save it, BUT, create a new folder on your desktop first (name it DIOTY 2024) and change the long chain of numbers and letters on the image , keeping the .jpg at the end to reflect the ORIGINAL TITLE of your image, click SAVE. Rinse and repeat above to get your DIOTY submissions in one file on your desktop.
SECOND STEP: Submitting your images in DIOTY 2024 . 1) Click on MEMBERS in the grey window on the home-page 2) Click on ENTER COMPETITIONS & ACTIVITIES 3) On the RH-side of the page it says OPEN AND UPCOMING COLLECTIONS 4) Click on DIOTY 2024 -and under ACTION, click ENTER. 5)The page will read : ENTER A COLLECTION 2024 DIOTY (OPEN) You’ll see all three categories with #entry 1, # entry 2 6) Click on CHOOSE FILE under the Category you want to enter , now go LOOK for your DIOTY 2024 folder on your DESKTOP, find the correct image, click on it, then click OPEN. 7) TYPE THE IMAGE TITLE in the space provided on the competition page and click SUBMIT. Your image will appear on the competition page under the category you submitted it to. Rinse and repeat for the other images you’d like to submit.
There is no other way to do this UNLESS you have saved your images on your computer when you originally submitted it. If you have, then do the FIRST STEP in the instructions above so you can ascertain which images received awards in the competitions throughout the year and then load them via your saved file according to the SECOND STEP. The drag-facility (from your gallery to a specific competition) which makes entering competitions so easy, is not available as YET.
Sincere apologies from my side as well for the inconvenience caused. Please get going with submitting your images because the Judge must receive these images by Wednesday night (after 6pm)
Once you’re done submitting an image, you will notice “Change title”‘ or Delete (in red) underneath each image – that is in case you’ve spelled something wrong or if you decide to submit another image instead of the one you’ve selected in the first place. If you see the images on the competition site – they are IN the competition and all is well.
Kind regards
Lindie Kolver