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CONCEPT
The concept is very simple: Take a photograph of your tot (pre-school age) looking at the picture on the left and e-mail it to us. Provided the picture meets the basic requirements of quality and decency, we will try to post it here within twenty-four hours. If you're unsure what we're talking about, visit Mike Stanfill's excellent site using the link below. If you're a cat owner, you might like to bookmark his site, but come straight back here!
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The idea for this page has been unashamedly stolen from Mike Stanfill, creator of the original and very wonderful Infinite Cat Project. Imitation is high praise, they say. And they're right.
REQUIREMENTS
1. First off, no nudity. You'll notice that our son's blog is full of pictures of him cavorting in the altogether; but given the (largely but not wholly) understandable paranoia about online paedophilia, we decided that the best way to avoid trouble was not to court it. So, future supermodels: nappies and babygros strictly on for the time being!
2. Please try to submit your picture in a common format. JPG, GIF, BMP etc are all fine. Special formats used by mobile phones might present problems for us, so if your image falls into this category, please convert it before sending.
3. Try to take a decent quality picture, even if this means sacrificing sponteneity and having a second or third attempt. It's not cheating. This isn't an historical document, it's a bit of fun, so let's try to make it easy on the eyes. If your camera, scanner or photography skill really doesn't cut it, don't worry; we'll post anything which is identifiably on-topic, but obviously the better the site looks, the more people will contribute. Size also counts. If you send a picture that's "too big" I can make it smaller. It doesn't work the other way around though, so please don;t send anything smaller than about 900x700 pixels.
4. Please don't send in multiple pictures of the same child. If you really want to submit pictures a year or two apart, that won't upset the effectiveness of the Project too much. But if we spot extra pictures too soon after the original submission, we'll have to reject them.
5. Please give a name so that we can caption your picture. If you'd rather use an alias, that's fine. If you want us to include the child's age and/or country of residence, that's fine, but not obligatory. You are not required to give any more detailed information. If you do, it will be deleted. This site is for fun; it is not where your little star is going to be Discovered!
2. Please try to submit your picture in a common format. JPG, GIF, BMP etc are all fine. Special formats used by mobile phones might present problems for us, so if your image falls into this category, please convert it before sending.
3. Try to take a decent quality picture, even if this means sacrificing sponteneity and having a second or third attempt. It's not cheating. This isn't an historical document, it's a bit of fun, so let's try to make it easy on the eyes. If your camera, scanner or photography skill really doesn't cut it, don't worry; we'll post anything which is identifiably on-topic, but obviously the better the site looks, the more people will contribute. Size also counts. If you send a picture that's "too big" I can make it smaller. It doesn't work the other way around though, so please don;t send anything smaller than about 900x700 pixels.
4. Please don't send in multiple pictures of the same child. If you really want to submit pictures a year or two apart, that won't upset the effectiveness of the Project too much. But if we spot extra pictures too soon after the original submission, we'll have to reject them.
5. Please give a name so that we can caption your picture. If you'd rather use an alias, that's fine. If you want us to include the child's age and/or country of residence, that's fine, but not obligatory. You are not required to give any more detailed information. If you do, it will be deleted. This site is for fun; it is not where your little star is going to be Discovered!
SMALL PRINT
Small print is bad, so we'll keep it simple. To cover ourselves, we have to stipulate copyright of all pictures submitted becomes ours, and was yours to give in the first place. This is simply to make sure we're not setting ourselves up for a fall by posting your picture. It certainly doesn't mean we'll set our lawyers on you for keeping your own copy! Rest assured that no attempt to make money from your work will be made by us. If we ever went down the road of merchandising (and that's a BIG if!) it would only be along the lines of that done on Mike Stanfill's site (see link below.) In other words, we will never sell a t-shirt with a huge print of your kid's face on it! Finally, any such merchandising would be done purely to pay for the site. Surplus funds would go straight to children's charities and receipts published here. Just to stress again: This is very much "the small print". Talk of merchandise at this stage is like talking about going to the moon!
Legally, we can't insist (or even check) that subjects are your own children, but please use your common sense. Please have the permission of parents concerned.
Legally, we can't insist (or even check) that subjects are your own children, but please use your common sense. Please have the permission of parents concerned.