Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]By all means - I think "Theme" of the contest is wide open to interpretation and should include categories. Basic categories such "Portraiture" and "Landscape" make a good starting point. But as we move forward - and I certainly hope we do - we could move into sub-categories such as "Macro photography of Tofu shot with Leica Gear in B&W" Eric On 8/6/06, Walt Johnson <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote: > > Brian > > Can you replace the theme idea with a category. Look to the NPPA or > something similar and do one category per month. Start with something > like Portrait Personality and make all entrants submit along those > lines. Next, maybe Landscape, Street Photography (hate that term) or > Features? 1st 2nd and 3rd in each month and assign each place points, > i.e. 10,5,3.. At the end of a year we should have /*TADA */ "Lugger of > the Year" based upon previous wins. > > Walt > > Brian Reid wrote: > > > I'm fine with all of that except your item 4: > > > >> 4) Winner of contest picks theme for next contest > > > > > > A good photographer is not necessarily a good theme-picker, and might > > not even like the idea of picking a theme. I think that people should > > suggest themes by mail to the LUG and that some small cabal should use > > utterly un-democratic processes to decide which of those suggested > > themes, if any, will be used. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >