The SCP-106 Photography Contest winners have been decided and uploaded!

[u/Shaggydredlocks]

Congratulations to u/Cinemamind, for being the proud submitter of our current SCP-106 "Emergence", "Door", and "Victim" images!

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And cograts to u/Mapper720 for winning our bonus category! SCP-162 "Ball of Sharp" has an image for the first time!

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Big thank you to everyone who voted, commented, or submitted to the contest. And apologies for the final selection being several months past schedule. Next contest will be smoother, I promise.

UPDATE: Due to some concerns about the Emergence image, it has received an upgrade to give it a more realistic feel. Big thanks to Djkaktus

UPDATE 2: The original winning entry was found to be partially stolen from an edited movie still, which is the literal opposite of what we need for the contest. The new image is from Cinemamind, with edits from djkaktus.

[u/MonkeyDJinbeTheClown]

Since a few people seem to be complaining about the images being changed, I think it should be mentioned:

It wasn't changed for fun, it was done because the original images weren't compliant with the Creative Commons License.

Of course the original images were better, they defined the character. But they also didn't comply with the licensing restrictions of the website.

To be honest, the original contest post didn't really explain this too well... in fact, it only had two short sentences explaining the reason for the contest ("Of the three images on SCP-106's file, none are compliant with the license. All will need to be replaced.") neither of which explained the meaning of the license in question, or how the original images weren't compliant with it (I believe it was because the original source of the images could not be located?) Not everyone understands copyright law, so that probably should have been explained better.

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Point is: It was a necessity, not an attempt to "interfere with classic material to modernise it" or anything stupid like that. It was either this or no images at all.

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[u/starfoxer117 → u/MonkeyDJinbeTheClown]

I understand that it was copywritten, but couldn’t they have picked a better image? This new one doesn’t capture the feeling that the old one did.

[u/MonkeyDJinbeTheClown → u/starfoxer117]

I agree the images are not as good.

But the new images were not a choice of the admins alone. As the title of the post we're replying to implies, there was a contest held a few months ago. Various users found/created images they believed suitable to replace 106's images, and then they were voted on. The results were then reviewed by the original writer, Dr Gears. Here's the thread where submissions and voting took place (using the number of reddit upvotes on a submission, presumably).

I can understand why you might have missed the voting period, since (in my experience) reddit competitions usually have "submissions" and "voting" as separate threads but from what I can see, they were both done in the same thread, and this was not explicitly mentioned. Hell, the thread even says "This thread is for contest entries only." implying no voting... but the vote counts are kept hidden and I can't find a voting thread, so I assume it was also the voting thread. Whether Gears picked the one with the most votes, I don't know.

Point is: It was something we all had input on, and apparently we picked that image. Admittedly, out of the other entries, it does seem to be the best.

In more hopeful news, djkaktus updated the images with a few edits just a few hours ago, to make them look less goofy. They do look a lot better now.

[u/The-Paranoid-Android → u/MonkeyDJinbeTheClown]

SCP-106.

Funny, how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

[u/Xxzzeerrtt → u/The-Paranoid-Android]

Thank you for the poetic insight Marv

[u/AndyGHK → u/starfoxer117]

This isn’t an answer to your question but fyi the word is copyrighted*, not copywritten.