Big congrats, Godfrey! Sounds like a great event! Cheers, Christine
On Aug 23, 2011, at 1:09 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Today I had the great pleasure to judge the third annual Humboldt > Photography Exhibition presented by the Redwood Art Associaton in > collaboration with the Eureka Photoshop Users Group and the Redwood > Camera Club. > > http://www.redwoodart.org/exhibitions.htm > > It was an open, unthemed show with over 100 entries. The work > submitted spanned the gamut of subject matter and skill levels. It was > a delight to see how well it was curated by the organizing staff, and > exhausting work to grok, categorize, and grade such a diverse body of > work. After that was done, there was a two and a half hour reception > for the submitters to meet the judge, announce the award winners, and > then to respond to their questions about the photos. > > This was thrilling work. So many interesting, important questions ... > ! Such passionate desire to learn, to understand, to improve on their > work. I was most impressed at the level of the questions asked ... > there were *no* questions related to equipment specifics, no mention > of camera brands or querulous thoughts of "maybe I need a better lens > or a better body" ... Everything was directed at "what makes this > photo a winner, why does this one work and this other not." I haven't > been so thrilled talking Photography with photographers in a while. > > It was also hard work: I'm exhausted now. I feel I truly earned my > honorarium ... But the positive feedback from the committee and the > participants in the exhibition who attended today were a much greater > reward than that check. So many took the time to come back into the > gallery and thank me personally for my thoughts and answers to their > questions... Even those whose work I found to be lacking and pointed > out what I saw as flaws walked away with a smile and a positive > thought, a thank you. That goes beyond any honorarium. > > Gosh, I love doing this stuff. :-) > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
