--- title: The Natty Wallpaper contest – an important update! description: Two weeks into our wallpaper contest we’re seeing lots of really interesting entries for the photographic part. As those of you who read the previous post about the contest will know we’re also reserving at least three places this release for non photographic wallpapers. The plan _was_ to use another site to manage these entries. […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/the-natty-wallpaper-contest-an-important-update?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical "More about Canonical") on 26 January 2011 # The Natty Wallpaper contest – an important update! 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Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/data-privacy). Sign up Two weeks into our wallpaper contest we’re seeing lots of really interesting entries for the photographic part. As those of you who read the p[revious post about the contest](http://design.canonical.com/2011/01/bright-light-and-beautiful/) will know we’re also reserving at least three places this release for non photographic wallpapers. The plan \_was\_ to use another site to manage these entries. Unfortunately the dedicated community team working on this site have hit some issues with keeping it running and so we’ve decided to move all entries to [Flickr](http://www.flickr.com). I’d like to take this opportunity to thank them for their hard work and we’ll explore this solution again next cycle. Metal & Bolts Sculpture SW 6th 1 of 3 by Orb9220 In the meantime we’ve a Narwhal who simply has to look Natty and we need something robust and reliable so that you can all focus more on creating and getting your entries to our judging panel and less on trying to upload. As before with the photographic entries simply tag your image **NattyWallpaper** so we can easily find it when judging time comes. While you’re hard at it snapping, sketching and creating our future desktops we’ll be contacting previous winners and asking them to prepare to look through all your entries. 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