> I did this one. > Theme: Landscape. > Most "Likes" wins. > Should anyone care to register at the (relatively new) > camera-enthusiast.com forum, then they can "Like" their favorite > image. If it happens to be mine, I thank you, but there are many > worthy images there (and not a lot of Likes on any of them so far). > My entry is the previously well-liked PESO image I took of a Kansas Gust > Front: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/4722534814/in/photostream/ > > The gallery of contest entries is found here: > http://www.camera-enthusiast.com/forums/useralbums/fuji-x10-giveaway-submissions.7/view > (Mine is in the last row, Waaaaaay down there, as I type this). > > Darren Addy > Kearney, Nebraska
I like the storm shot Darren. Photo contest rant follows. There seems to be no good way to run a contest. Subjectivity always enters into the picture. However this kind of contest seems to have more problems than the kind in which a select set of judges passes judgement. A big complaint from posters in this contest is that images near the top of the list seem to acquire more votes. That's entirely logical, those voting are not required to look at every image before voting. Hence as interest wanes or time slips by the images lower on the list tend to get fewer votes, regardless of their merit. A recent monthly photo contest run by an insurance company here in Idaho had a similar format, except that anyone that registered on the site was eligible to vote. So it was not really a photo contest, it was a popularity contest. Those that could encourage or ask the most number of friends to vote would garner the most votes, regardless of image merit. How is that remotely fair? I wrote the company regarding the issue, and their response was that they designed it to be a popularity contest. So much for that. Tom C. -- 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.
