International Picture Posting Month

I like a blogging event. They’re a great form of community interaction. I also like activities with clear parameters that can be undertaken daily. Sometimes trying to come up with new ideas for posts and content is tricky. Events can alleviate this by providing clear structure and a set of preset tasks or prompts. Chestnut over at Gamer Girl Confessions is running International Picture Posting Month throughout November. Broadly speaking it’s the image equivalent of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) where you are encouraged to write 50,000 words. With IntPiPoMo (now there’s an easy to remember acronym) the idea is to post images, be it a screen capture from a game, a photo or some of your own artwork. The target for the month is 50 images. Although the emphasis is on the visual, there is also the option to write about the images you share if you so desire.

So I’ve signed up and intend to give this a go over the month ahead. Like many other gamers I have numerous folders of game related screenshots on my hard drive. I also have hundreds of images from various movies stored for use in film reviews. Hence, I think I have some suitable material for IntPiPoMo. Now due to the blog template I’m currently using, there is a size limit on any image I embed in a post. Therefore I shall attempt to upload the full-size images on a third-party hosting site and endeavour to integrate a scaled version (with a link back to the original) on Contains Moderate Peril. If this solution cannot be accommodated due to some technical reason, I’ll try and fudge some other workaround. I would like to maintain the original image size, as I think that scaling content sometimes diminishes its impact.

If you want any further details on this event and the prizes available (yes, that’s right there are also prizes involved) then head over to Gamer Girl Confessions using the link above. There’s a sign-up page so that Chestnut can track who’s participating in IntPiPoMo. So far, the following bloggers have “taken the King’s shilling” and are participating in International Picture Posting Month. It will be interesting to see what pictures they share in the weeks to come.

• Cal – Galactic Antics

• Chestnut – Gamer Girl Confessions

• Shintar – Going Commando

• Bhagpuss – Inventory Full

• Paeroka – Nerdy Bookahs

• Stargrace – Nomadic Gamers, eh!

• Atheren – The Last Chapter Gaming Blog

• Arislyn – The Tanking Mage

• Welshtroll – Welshtroll