Re: [Leica] Leica M photo contest in CDI

[chefurka@sympatico.ca (Paul Chefurka)]

On Sun, 31 Oct 1999 19:18:41 +0100, Nathan Wajsman
<nathan.wajsman@euronet.be> wrote:

>I am not going to bother. This year I have entered pictures into every month
>in the Amateur Photographer (UK) Amateur Photographer of the Year competition,
>and only once did I make it into top 30. That would be OK if I thought that
>the images that did get published were superior to mine, but that is not the
>case. While I can see that the winners were invariably better, I thought that
>some of the top 30 entries were trash. One guy scored lots of points with
>carefully set up pictures of mice in a maze...I think that I am going to stick
>to publishing on my web pages and sharing pictures with friends and family.

That sounds like competitions everywhere, Nathan.  There has been a
lot of commentary in the Ottawa Camera Club recently about the
inadequacy of virtually all judges.  I keep entering their
competitions just so my photos will be seen.  I used to get violently
upset at the judges' inability to see outside of their particular box,
but no more.  Get the image up in front of people, and you can count
on at least a few understanding what you were getting at.

Publication competitions have a handicap in this respect, though.  If
the judges don't like it, no one gets to see it.  Submitting an image
to a magazine competition is, in most cases, equivalent to dropping it
into a black hole.  A very great shame.

Paul Chefurka