Light Chasers

Replacing a manually run photography contest with a structured, multi-role platform.

The problem

A photography club ran its contests by hand: submissions collected through Facebook posts, judge nominations tracked and deduplicated manually, scoring tallied by a volunteer, and winners released with no repeatable process or audit trail.

The application

Light Chasers gives members, judges, and admins each a purpose-built flow, so the contest's own rules are enforced by the system instead of remembered by whoever is running it that month.

Key capabilities

Guided member submission flow with a shared daily allowance
Independent, locked judge nominations with automatic overlap handling
Two final-judging modes: private scored review or live admin-led consensus
Advanced image viewer with zoom, pan, and histogram for close judging
Admin-configurable contest rules and identity/anonymity policy
Explicit, cancelable release step for winner notification

Capability proven

What this demonstrates

The workflow, role permissions, and business logic are fully built and functional — this reflects a working system, not a mockup. The visual palette shown here is a placeholder; final branding is a separate, later step.

About the demo

This is a private, login-protected application, so there isn't a public live-demo link. The screenshots are captured from an isolated visual-review build; the current color palette and certificate design are placeholders, not final branding.

Does your organization run something by hand that has outgrown spreadsheets and social posts?

A role-based application can enforce your own rules automatically and take the manual coordination burden off whoever is stuck doing it.

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