Good Morning! I hope you all had a great weekend!

So, we are starting a new  Community Challenge today!  "Strangest Billboards you've ever seen!  In order to participate you must tag your photo "strange"

I this challenge will be a fun one!

Also, you can now register for the 8/17 "Dusk and Night Photography" Photo class! Don't miss this class!

If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.

If you want to sign up for the friends and family program, send me an email to livinginhd@us.panasonic.com

Don't forget to follow us on Twitter or be our fan on Facebook!

Thank you,

LiHD Team Leader

To all,

NEW Community Challenge ~ "Best and Funny Baby Photos"  Upload your best and funny baby photos and tag them "photo,baby" 

You can upload photos of yourself, your kids, friends, family, etc... This will be a fun challenge... 

Also, you can still register for tomorrow's photo class.  Register now for the photo class "Water Photography"

Be our fan on Facebook or follow us on Twitter!

If you have any questions, concerns or technical issues, please fee free to contact me.

Thanks,

Yessica

LiHD Team Leader

Thanks to everyone who participated in this last challenge!  There were some great photos submitted with all kinds of celebrities!  The winners below will be featured in our next email newsletter which is sent to over 70,000 people all over the world. 

Winner

The Ross Family submitted this photo with the legendary Robin Williams!

Runner Ups

Lisa uploaded this great photo with talented country star! Tim McGraw

The Calandro Family uploaded this photo with the hilarious Rosie O'Donnell!

Beth uploaded a photo with her and celebrity chef Paula Deen!

Great job everyone!  Remember to check out this blog for updates on future challenges, contests, new features and more.

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We propose another fun challenge for you!  We know that many people have met celebrities so we want to see your photos with celebrities or celeb look-a-likes!  Whether they're A list or D list or just a celebrity to YOU, we want to see it!  Make sure to upload it in the member LiHD gallery with the tag "challenge".  Here are a few I've gathered through the years.  Look forward to seeing them!

Before He Was a Jerk - Chris Brown

Tyra Banks and I doing our "serious" faces for the camera

My friend Ali, singer Michelle Branch and I

We invite you to take part in our Halloween challenge!  We want to see your best Halloween photos - costumes, jack o' lanterns, crazy Halloween decorations etc.  We also welcome fun videos too!  Make sure to upload it into the LiHD Gallery/Theater and to tag it with "challenge".  We will post a bunch in the blog before Halloween as well as be Tweeting and Facebooking them throughout the rest of the month!

Make sure to follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/LivinginHD

and Fan us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/livinginhd

Here's a funny photo of me last year.  I was a Barbie in a Box! :)

Have fun!

We know everyone had a blast with the caption challenge, so now we're doing it up a bit differently.  This time we want you to show your news reporter skills!  We want a video of you interviewing anyone or anything (stuffed animals anyone?) or reporting live from a fun location.  Be creative!  I will choose the best one and whoever wins this time will be featured in the upcoming LiHD Newsletter.  

To upload, simply upload into the LiHD Theater.  Use the same process as you would inserting a photo into the gallery only make sure you insert the video instead.  Here is a screencast explaining how to do this.  It's easy! *Make sure it's under 150 MB* Accepted file types are: MOV, WMV, FLV, MPG, AVI, OGG

If you have any questions,

Thank you to everyone who submitted their amazing and funny captioned photographs for our challenge!  They were absolutely fantastic!  Feel free to go to the LiHD Theater and check them out or search for them by the tag "caption". 

I have chosen my favorite caption which had me laughing quite hard!  The winner of the challenge was Donna from Boston, MA with:

Other GREAT honorable mentions were:

Thanks again for all of your entries and look out on Monday for our next posted challenge!  Get ready to have some more fun and perhaps be a winner!

Our newest community challenge involves a bit of creativity and a lot of fun!  We want you to take a photo of yours and make the best captions to go along with it -- like the ones shown here:

How to do it? It’s easy!  Here is a video showing you exactly how. 

If you are unable to view the video, the directions are as follows.

Simply go to http://bighugelabs.com/captioner.php

You will see the example photo on the page.  On the upper left hand side above it, you will see “Choose File”.   Click that and choose a photo (of your own) located on your computer.  Once chosen, look to the left hand side to see three sections where you can add your captions.  You are able to add up to three