wow - I disagree about the voting process...
There are a lot of "competent" things that are boring, but enough
spectacularly good stuff to make it interesting.
I have to say that I've been brutal though, when it came to photos
submitted by anyone who needed to expound on the beauty of their own
work. gag me with a spoon - or gushing over the lenses.
Every now and then there is really outstanding stuff and I only regret
that I don't know whose work it is - unless, by chance,
I recognize the work as that of someone I know and have already admired.
They ask us to note categories when we submit, but I've yet to find a
way from the main page to search by category or subject -
and I'd like to.
I share Bob's frustration at the way the site is set up...
I've just noted yesterday that I now have 10 accepted... two of which
(sorry Larry) are flowers ;-)
ann
Larry Colen wrote:
I think that the first I heard of PPG was on the DPR Pentax SLR forum with
people either bemoaning photos that had been rejected, or celebrating photos
that had been accepted. The consensus seemed to be that voting on PPG was done
by simpletons with a strong preference for cliche, and vivid colors. Or
something like that.
I was finally able to submit some more photos, after which I decided to do some
voting. If the voting on PPG is done by simpletons who love cliche, then it's
because they are the only people whose brains wouldn't turn to soggy gruel by
looking at the entries. In half an hour I looked at more flower pictures on
PPG than I have in two years of reading PDML. And if it's not a flower, dear
God, it's a building. A large, majestic building, perfectly centered in the
frame, or a wide angle view of a magnificent interior, replete with a baroque
domed ceiling.
Almost every one of those pictures is technically perfect, taken with few flaws
and less imagination.
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