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["Tom Smart" <tom@sleepytom.com>]

Thanks for the replies, and sorry about the file size (don't know how that
happened...).

This was a bit of a loaded question, I guess, but I didn't want to give the
whole story without getting some feedback first.

I had decided to go ahead and submit this image knowing that it was
imperfect.  I thought fixing the tilt would crop out too much of the top of
the carousel.  And I decided that the tilt added a bit of uneasiness that I
wanted to include anyway.  (What the heck, I'm an anesthetist by trade and
I'm used to inducing nausea....).

So I was careful to print it with as much detail as I could, and toned it
carefully for a triple-banding effect that seemed to provide bright extreme
highlights, creamy warmth in the high tones and a cold undercurrent in the
low tones.  Then I learned how to dry mount, cut an overmat and frame it up.

The process was, after all, the nature of my desire to enter the
competition - to push my skills.  Knowing the limitations of the composition
I expected no ribbons but was pumped by the idea of seeing my framed print
on the wall in an exhibition.

And I thought the framed print was worth exhibition.  Trouble is, it was
flatly rejected by the jury - not allowed into the exhibition at all.  Since
I really wasn't expecting THAT much of a rejection for a piece that was at
least a serious attempt at art, I wanted to query the list.

Thanks,

Tom


- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Tom Smart
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 9:00 PM
To: LUG (E-mail)
Subject: [Leica] Juried Competition


In your opinion, is this image worth submitting to a State Fair juried photo
competition?  Printed 11x14, dry mounted, over matted and framed 16x20.

http://www.sleepytom.com/images/horses2.jpg

Thanks,

Tom


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