Bridge and ballroom dancing could be noble additions to the Olympics
considering that pistol shooting and synchronized swimming can get you a
place on the podium !
What's wrong with introducing mental challenges and physical grace into
sporting competition ?
jh
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From: "Bill Pearce" <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
To: "'Olympus Camera Discussion'" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Entering Competitions. Why?
> Having seen the result of local competitions, it is plainly obvious that
> they reward mediocrity. Each time I see results, I see a flood of what we
> used to call funeral home calendar pictures. But then I look at the
> judges.
>
> And why shoud we turn photography in to a competitive sport? Are we
> looking
> to the day when Bridge and Ballroom Dancing become Olympic sports so then
> we
> can apply for the gold in photography? I for one would welcome the time to
> sit down with a portfolio and a regarded photographer for a critique, but
> a
> competition?
>
> Bill Pearce
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Steinman [mailto:Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 11:37 PM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] Entering Competitions. Why?
>
>> From: "Bill Pearce" <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
>>
>> I really am opposed to a bunch of 1: modestly successful portrait and
>> wedding photographers or B: weirded out academics comparing my photos
>> to a number of different photos made with differing visions and
>> picking "the best."
>
> I resemble that remark... NOT!
>
> I've participated as a judge or jury member as a self-employed fine-art
> photographer. I've never shot weddings nor portraits nor been an
> academic --
> weird nor otherwise.
>
> It was a wholly gratifying and humbling experience, and if you have the
> chance to be a judge or be on a jury, I hope you'll jump on it! It left me
> wishing I was actually worthy of judging the wonderful work I witnessed,
> yet
> I got paid more than the first place winner -- truly humbling, but from
> the
> point-of-view of someone trying to make a meagre living at fine-art
> photography, totally gratifying. (I got lodging, two meals, mileage, plus
> $300 for judging over 400 photographs in five separate entry categories --
> about a day's work -- which was about as much as I might make at an art
> festival.)
>
> But yea, competitions are for a certain type of person. I don't believe
> I've
> ever entered a photo competition, yet I made my (extremely modest) living
> at
> photography for five long (LONG!) years.
>
> Competition can be very gratifying, or it may not be for you at all. But
> please don't blame the judges for your lack of interest! I think they're
> probably very different than you imagine.
>
>
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