Here is what the PPG says: Your Photo Gallery > Understand the Submission Process
1. Your photo has been submitted to the PENTAX artist voting queue 2. Artists will approve or deny a photo, based upon technical proficiency and artistic concept, including compositions, color, subject & form 3. If your photo is generally liked and accepted by the community, it will be publicly displayed in the PENTAX Photo Gallery 4. If the image is in breach of the PENTAX Terms of Use, PENTAX reserves the right to remove the image at any time 5. On the artist dashboard, you can track an image through the submission process WHAT IS LEFT UNSAID: Are the "artists" who "approve or deny a photo" the same people as "the community" who can get your image into the gallery if they "generally" like and accept it? Is #3 a separate review in every case, before or after the "community" review, or is it just something that they reserve the right to exercise in extraordinary circumstances? It sounds like there is no review except the voting by the "community." If that is the case, however, how does one explain the fact that there are still some of my images "under review," even though the others submitted at the same time have been accepted or rejected? Should all the ones that enter the review process at one time finish at one time if the voting by the community is the only step? Dan Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > >>But that raises a question: Is there still a two-tier judging system >>in place? Do the peer-voted images that are accepted still have to >>pass through acceptance by Pentax USA officials? I haven't seen this >>explicitly stated anywhere, though I may have missed it. > > What made me wonder about this in the first place, by the way, is that > I've been told of some images with borders/frames and/or watermarks > being accepted into the gallery. I vote "no" on those myself but I > suspect other voters haven't read the guidelines carefully. I just > doubt that Pentax officials would overlook such a thing - that's why I > wonder if it isn't all by peer voting now. That would be a shame; I > alwqays thought the two-tier "popular vote than jury selection" was an > excellent real-world system. > > > -- > 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.
