Teresa wrote:I'm rather curious...I've attended most conventions since 1992 and have NEVER gotten my pic in the News, (shades of 'the cover of the Rolling Stone') whereas certain BNCs always seem to appear in the collages.
I am not a BNC. Maybe next year the roving photographer should take pictures of people they don't know (and the bookstore could give prizes to people who can identify us).
Teresa,
This seems to be a theme with you, judging from your earlier posts about how "the little guys" never win photo salon awards.
I will agree there are some people that end up in the collages a lot because they are the ones out there dancing at the Howdy Parties, up at podiums a lot, in the band, etc. And hence they get photographed a lot. But it is an unsupportable contention to suggest that people the photographers don't know aren't included. This year we had photos from the usual four people (I only shot a few myself) and when I select them I try to deliberately pick a lot of photos of people I don't know myself.
Have you ever submitted convention photos, or have your friends? Anyone is free to do so, though the same four people have submitted the bulk of them for many years.
Jansen's point about the staff not being well represented might be true of this collage as I used several of them (and the bands) in the wrap-up article. where there are captions. There just weren't many to choose from, especially of those security types...
By contrast, last year I got lots of staff photos from one of the staffers and used quite a few. I think including shots of staff is a worthy goal for all the hard work they do.
BTW, there's two color pages devoted to just convention caving as well. You're seeing just a part of the coverage here.
Cheers,
Dave