Dear Member..
I am so grateful for your enthusiasm about our Annual Image Competition! Thank you for taking the time to look through the galleries and place your votes for your peers. I can’t wait to see the results and spread the beauty of birth again!
Below you will find instructions about our Members’ Choice Voting process. Please read carefully.
Send any questions, concerns or comments to me at co*********@bi****************.com. I am so pleased to have you here!
Mark Your Calendars! Members’ Choice Voting opens March 3 – 7, 2025
You may vote for ONE image in each category/subcategory that you wish to win the category. To dispurse your votes, please use the filter function to add your vote to each category and sub-category. You have 17 votes in total to spread one vote in each category/sub-category. When viewing a category with no sub-category selected, it will show you ALL entries in that category. It has not filtered by subcategory.
- To place your vote, click the thumbs up icon in the bottom right hand corner of the image. If you click more than one heart in a single category, it will subtract one of your votes from your balance and you’ll be short a vote when you get to the last category/sub-category.
- Images that you have voted on will be green. Images that you have NOT voted on will be red. This is to help you easily scan the images and see where you have placed your vote.
- To leave a comment, click the image you wish to leave a comment on. You may leave comments/feedback on as many images as you’d like and we encourage you to do so generously!
- Please Note: Click the image to view it uncropped
- To remove a vote, simply click the vote button again and it will remove the vote. Red thumbs are images you have NOT voted yes for and green thumbs are the images you have voted for.
- Images will load in a random order each time you open the page. So if you are looking for a specific image after you’ve come back to the page, chances are it will be in a different spot. This is to help alleviate submissions being grouped together and to further incorporate a fair judging process.
If you are having trouble locating your images, please look in other categories or other sub-categories. There is a chance it was mis-marked on the form and our admin team would have no idea to know if the chosen category/sub-category is the one intended to be marked. We have not altered any of the category allocations. What was marked on the entry form is where your image is showing in the category/sub-category. As of current ALL images UNLESS you have marked they cannot be showed to the public are on display. If your image is truly missing, this is because we do not have permission to share your image outside of private judging. There are currently 11 images that are marked NO to public sharing.
Leaving Comments / Feedback
Leaving comments is much easier this year thanks to our newly updated system! Please have fun with this! You are able to leave comments on any photograph. We encourage you to do this GENEROUSLY.
Your comments are anonymous to the recipient (and the public), however administrators can see all comments and their authors.
Should you wish the entrant knows the comment came from you, you are welcome to include your name. Please know there is a possibility entrants will save any quotable positive feedback to use as a part of their business marketing in the future. That said, we do encourage you to leave your name to allow them this opportunity, but it is your choice.
Kind, constructive criticism is encouraged and will be most helpful to your peers. In addition, this type of communication helps elevate our community and industry as a whole.
BEFORE YOU GET STARTED WITH VOTING PLEASE CLEAR YOUR BROWSERS CACHE.
For a smooth voting experience we suggest you log in and vote on your desktop