I agree. The Premiere Collection is stunning. I visit it every now and them for inspirition.
Dan Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > OTOH a couple of weeks ago I had a browse of the "premiere" images and, WOW > - lots of outstanding stuff and by no means (just) the "oversaturated > landscapes". I've scratched my head over what > was accepted of mine and what rejected that I thought was better than the > acceptees. Just look at it for what it is, another op to > get your work seen by a wider audience... and the new format is much better, > too. > > ann > > On 12/28/2011 22:15, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> Which pretty much validates my original hesitation in bothering to >> submit to the PPG. Kinda reduces it to the level of Flickr. >> >> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Paul Stenquist<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> I like it, but I can see how a silhouette might be rejected without much >>> thought on the part of critiquers. Remember, many of the photographer judges >>> are shooters of minimal to modest experience. Anything that's a departure >>> from the norm is likely to fail in the peer judging. >>> Paul >>> On Dec 28, 2011, at 9:15 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >>> >>>> I'm not sure what we can learn from this, but last week I submitted my >>>> shot that was exhibited at the curated Chicago Scharpenberg Gallery in >>>> 2010, "PDML Augenblick". It was rejected by the PPG in 4 days. >>>> >>>> (It's this one: http://500px.com/photo/1422532 ) >>>> >>>> I'm going to resubmit it just for grins, but I was rather taken aback >>>> by that. Maybe it would help if I HDR'ed it first? >>>> >>>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/bmw >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Daniel J. Matyola<[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The Pentax Photo Gallery appears to be up to date. >>>>> >>>>> I spent some time last night voting on images, and the ran out of >>>>> images to show me! >>>>> >>>>> I recently submitted some new images, and they were all rejected -- in >>>>> two days! I never expect everyone to like what I do, but neither did >>>>> I anticipate such a bum's rush! >>>>> >>>>> Either the voters are getting pickier again, or Pentax is reviewing >>>>> the images more closely than a month or so ago. >>>>> >>>>> Dan Matyola >>>>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >> >> > > -- > 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.
