Remember this picture. When Paul announced his sunset and sunrise competition, I had announced MS 500 gift for the best comment on my picture. It was great to see some of the best comments and new perspective of my own picture. What I was looking for was the best comment which comes close to the feeling I had while capturing this shot. Door County in Wisconsin is known for its sunset and this special one taken from the evening cruise.

So, here are the competitors. I kind of enjoyed psyched, rohitthebest, flyingelephant, spy009, nidhi1, and mbfarookh's comments but best of them was dwivediakash's comment. I actually loved it ever since I read it first time. Since I love sunsets and bright orange sky, I am always in the hurry to capture horizon images. Aakash's comment is what I feel about sunsets. Hurry, reach out to your camera, beauty is about to vanish, catch it if you can. Aakash will be keeper of the MS 500 gift. Thanks for participating and special thanks to Paul for choosing this picture in his competition.

By: psyched
The earth meets the sea...the horizon is right there....wish i could touch it.

By: monoo
Its time i say goodbye --

By: rohitthebest
door kahin jab din dhal jaaye.

By: rohitthebest
everytime you go away, you take a piece of me with you!

By: astrofreak1234
Sayonara kal phir aaunga main...

By: derebail2008
superb locale and shot of the sunset

By: derebail2008
Love breaks the boundaries of the sky, water and land

By: madhuminal
suraj ki garmi se pani ki lehren chamak udhi

By: bildebej
tranquility personified ! 

By: vistascan
Dreams beckon

By: dwivediakash
beauty is about to vanish...catch it if you can...

By: aaryesdee
Jal, Vayu,Zamein aur Surya. A perfect blend of universe

By: spikeguard
ray of light across a spike of land!

By: Sachinsan
Jab sham dhale to mere pass hote jana, Jara der ruk sagar kinare Bath lete Jana :) Excellent Photography.. Bye & Take Care!!!!

By: vasudevbehere
Sun rises in the east

By: Spy009
Don’t let the disaster ruin your day, when the dark clouds move in after sunset, just smile, don’t say good bye, tomorrow will be sunshine.

By: Spy009
Suraj chhip gaya to kya***Kal subah to zaroor hogi***shart hai ke waqt ka thoda intezar kijiyie

By: flyingelephant
Kahin Door county mein jab din dhal jayeee....?

By: flyingelephant
Taking the gold away, to start another day !

By: astrofreak1234
This gets a 9 from me. Shadow in the water gives the feel of dying embers of the fire...

By: jaideepkhanduja
sun says - hey hang on - i am thirsty for the whole day, let me go and drink some water...

By: fahad91
Sunset and its beauty!!!!!!

By: nitesh1104
I’m still shinning.. :)

By: nidhi1
Sun says to Waves, ’’Catch me if you can..’’

By: flyingelephant
Pani me aag lagi kya?

By: mbfarookh
Even the mighty Sun lays down work at dusk… but the tireless sea waves never stop even for a moment...

By: mbfarookh
The Sun blushes as it loses its fire…

By: mbfarookh
Like the ubiquitous politician, it dons a saffron hue…

By: mbfarookh
First among equals... a picture worth framing and hanging on my wall!

By: mbfarookh
As the Sun loses its power, the clouds hide the blushes...

Do you guys wanted to earn easy MS Points?

I have uploaded 376 pictures in my picture album. It will help you to earn at least 1000 points simply rating them. Put atleast one comment on each them and you will earn at least 1500 points more. As we all know, you get chance to earn 8 points for each picture - 3 for rating and 5 for commenting. As a simple math, 376x8 = 3008 MS Points. I wouldn't miss a chance to get these easy points.

Most importantly you will have journey of lifetime. What I witnessed in last 8 years after spending lots of weeks of vacations and good amount of dollar bills, you guys will witness free and above all, will give you chance to earn at least 3000 MS Points.

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Grand Teton National Park, USA
Yellowstone National Park, USA
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Niagara Falls, USA and Canada
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Beartooth Highway and Wyoming Highways, USA
Door County, USA
Sleeping Bears Dunes National LakeShore, Michigan, USA
Warren Dunes Beach State Park, Michigan, USA
Michigan Light Houses, USA
Chicago Skyline, USA
Rajasthan – Udaipur, Kumbhalgarh, Ranakpur, Bikaner, Jaisalmer, and Jodhpur
Golden Triangle of North India – Delhi, Jaipur, and Agra/Fatehpur Sikri
Golden Triangle of South India – Mysore, Ooty/Coonoor, and Banglore
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There you go guys, what you are waiting for? Feel the taste of ancient forests, glaciers, rivers, mountains, water falls, city landscapes, man-made highways, famous light houses, and ancient forts and palaces.

Get free world tour, rate them, comment on them, and earn 3000 MS Points.

I was just reading Paul's new competition announcement and thinking of how one can chip in some amount of MS Points to the competition organizer. Ever since MS virtual gifts arrived here at the MS, MS Points are more useful than ever. On the side note, It's easy to earn them too.

You can use MS Points to either send a gift to the someone or send a gift to yourself.  But, what if you want to transfer your MS Points to someone else's account. How about sending a donation in terms of MS Points? Think about Lyla donating all her MS points to someone more active or FE bribing Lyla to donate all her points to him so, he can buy all kind of virtual gifts he wish for.

Dear MS Management, I would like to donate some of my MS points to the some of the most active members of MS.

How can I do that? Jasmine, can you help us...

Nik

Here is my first diary and I wanted to be cry baby. I wanted to cry about dreaded Mouthpad.

It’s been more than 2 years here at Mouthshut, lots of things changed (I have seen 4 different versions of look and feel of the site), lots of new features has been added, and lots of new member joined and lot of them left too (this is 4th or 5th generation of MSains I am living with) but one thing is never changed – My hate relationship with Mouthpad.

Being a movie reviewer, lots of time I wanted to review world cinema. Believe me or not, first thing writing movie review here at MS for any non-Indian movies comes to my mind is NOT thoughts about movie but whether same movie product exists or not here at Mouthshut. After initial experience, I never wanted to go through dreaded Mouthpad to request any movie products. If you have ever requested product through Mouthpad, you know what I am talking about. It’s a game of patience and unhurried approach. Lots of times MS team takes forever to process Mouthpad requests. Sometimes it gets processed after a month and at that time, thoughts about the movie or product you wanted to review is already evaporated. I have even heard that sometimes even it takes more than year after member already became inactive.

I wonder does Mouthshut team know about it? I wonder how many employees are processing mouthpad requests or is there any dedicated full time employee processing mouthpad requests? I wonder how much research they need to do to add a product or category? I wonder how many requests they get in a day?

Mouthshut Content Team, Any idea, how to solve this problem?

One thing what MS team can do is create a MS request status page in community center where you can see how long approximately it will take and where your request lies in the long queue of Mouthpad request. If content team is not fast enough, it will help reduce stress level of MSians. Hope someone listens from MS team.

P.S.  This is my frustration of requesting “Howl’s Moving Castle” more than three times in last two weeks through Mouthpad and it’s still not added as Movie Product.