Capture El Paso News

ALERT: We're Throwing a Party

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:50:46 -0500

We are excited to announce the Capture El Paso book release party! It's going to be the coolest book release party our area has ever seen! Everyone is welcome. Bring your friends, family and camera! It's going to be a great time for the community to come together to celebrate the unveiling of the Capture El Paso book. It will be the first time anyone sees which photos made the book. Prize winners will be announced as well. If you already ordered the book and selected "pickup at the newspaper" as your shipping option, you can pick it up at the release party instead. Just bring your confirmation email. What: Capture El Paso Release Party When: Friday, December 5th, starting at 7:00 PM Where: Barnes & Noble Booksellers (Sunland Park), 705 Sunland Park Dr., El Paso, TX 79912 Be sure to visit the RSVP page and let us know you're coming. We hope to see you all there!

ALERT: The Cover, Revealed!

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:17:06 -0400

After adding up all the votes and looking through thousands upon thousands of photos, we are ready to reveal the cover! Congratulations Sandra Balboa for taking the shot that will be featured on the cover. You can find the cover on the Capture El Paso main page. We're really excited about it. Thanks Sandra! We are very glad you submitted it. Remember to order your copy of the book and share your coupons with your friends.

ALERT: Vote Week: Let's Go!

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:52:58 -0400

Vote Week is here! This is the most crucial phase of the project. This is your last chance to shape the book. This is where voting gets serious! You ready? We're ready. Go vote vote vote! Actually hang on a second. We have something we want to tell you before you get engulfed in voting. We are so excited about the number of votes cast so far. When Vote Week is over, we'll let everyone know just how many votes were cast over the course of the project. It's impressive, but Vote Week should really bump up that number. Please help add to the total! Try to get your vote graph up to 100%. We have a group of power users that sit around 100%, which is really great. So everyone pitch in and let's crank up the vote. It's all to help shape the best El Paso photography book ever created. Oh, and remember that you only have until Oct. 15 to save on the book! Hurry up and get your copies ordered today! Okay that's it. Now warm up those clicker fingers and vote vote vote!

ALERT: Fall, Winter and Spring Results!

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:00:19 -0400

The results for the fall, winter and spring challenges are in! Over 1,000 photos were submitted in all, which is absolutely amazing. Plus, the shots are so beautiful... it was difficult to not pick everything. El Paso has some beautiful scenery across all four seasons, and amazing photographers to capture it. When you have a minute, check out the fall, winter and spring challenge results. You will love all of the photos. We sure did. Thanks to everyone that submitted their shots. Oh, and only a few hours left to upload photos! Hurry!

Fall Results!

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:53:39 -0400

Fall is awfully pretty around here. Go check out our favorite fall shots from the 350+ you folks submitted.

Winter Results!

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:48:28 -0400

Choosing winter photos to feature made us want to sip on some hot cocoa. Maybe you should grab a cup yourself and check out these winter shots.

Spring Results!

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:46:13 -0400

Spring is full of color and life! We love it. Thanks to everyone who submitted photos to the spring challenge. More than 300 submissions for this one! Wow! Here are our faves.

ALERT: A Few Important Things

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:15:24 -0400

Hey folks! We have a few housecleaning items everyone needs to be aware of so we thought we'd wrap them all up in one giant alert. First, do you realize there's a little more than a week left to submit photos?!? That's not long at all! We've opened three new challenges to help fill some missing areas for submissions: Fall, Winter and Spring. When you upload photos, you'll see a spot to enter photos for Fall, Winter or Spring at the bottom of the upload form. To enter a photo you've already uploaded, go to your photo's edit page and enter it at the bottom of the page. To get to the edit page, click on the "Edit Photo" button on your photo's normal view. At the end of these challenges (October 7th), we'll feature our favorites from each season. Getting featured is good because it means your photo will get more views, and thus, more votes. So upload your best photos that show El Paso in winter, fall or spring! Once the counter in the top right reaches zero, submissions will close and Vote Week will begin. Vote Week is pretty self-explanatory. It's a week where everyone needs to garner all the support they can for their photos. It's a week to camp out on your computer in front of Capture El Paso and try to get your vote percentage graph (on your user profile page) up to 100%! More than 650,000 votes have been cast so far... it's going to be a mad dash to the finish! Before the counter reaches zero and Vote Week begins, we need everyone to shore up their captions. Remember, these photos will be put in a hard-bound fine-art book. It's going to sit on coffee-tables all over the place. We're going to try to use captions "as-is" for the most part, but if your photo has a caption that just doesn't make sense, or doesn't really describe the photo, or has a bunch of errors in it, or is way too long... well we might just have to skip it or edit the caption.. and we really don't want to do that. Bottom line: take a look at your captions and whip them into book-form shape! (To edit a caption click the "edit info" button on the photo's page.) Speaking of the book, the counter reaching zero also marks the end of the contributor discount on the book. If you've submitted a photo or voted for more than 150 photos, we gave you a coupon code worth $5 off every book you order. Be sure to head to the order page and click the "buy it now" button before the chance to save is gone. Now go submit your very best stuff! Only a few days left!!!

100,000th Vote Cast

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:27:42 -0400

We blew past the 100,000 vote mark and are well on our way to 200,000! The 100,000th vote was cast by Ginger McCluer on this sunrise photo. Congrats Ginger! Your votes are helping to shape the book. Everyone go say thanks to Ginger by voting on her photos!

ALERT: Mini-Challenge: 100,000 Votes

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:25:16 -0400

Update: We have a winner! Everyone is voting like mad! In the first week of the contest, you folks voted more than 75,000 times. Wow! At the current pace, someone will likely cast the 100,000th in the next couple days. Whoever casts that vote will be featured in a news post, which means your photos will get more attention (and thus, more votes) Now go vote vote vote!