On Nov 19, 2007, at 8:58 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > When I was about 5 years old one of my favorite stories was "The > Little > Red Hen". She spends most of the story trying to get the other > barnyard > animals to help her make bread, but no one wants to help with > harvesting the wheat, grinding it into flour, making the dough, > etc.... > but in the end they all want to help eat the loaf. > > The Pentax Gallery seems to be a little like that: A lot of people > want > to get their photos shown there, but very few pitch in to the work > that > makes the Gallery possible.
The question this raises is: "What is the purpose of the PPG and does the voting system actually support achieving that goal?" My understanding is that the PPG is a site designed to attract customers and sell Pentax equipment. It's not an artists' collective web gallery presented for the purpose of celebrating photography or selling the artists' work. It's a marketing tool in which Pentax offers users of their equipment a place to show work that they, Pentax, deem to show the equipments' capabilities in a good enough light to motivate sales. On that basis, it is Pentax responsibility to fund and manage the submission and acceptance business, not anyone else's. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
