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rowland7840 wrote:As far as the TAG photo salon goes, it is more just for fun and in no means a serious competition. I wouldn't go bragging "Hey I won such and such place at the TAG Photo Salon"... There is not alot of entries for the judges to chose from and it's not based on technical merit. Last year it was People's Choice Award but because it took me nearly TWO hours to count up the votes (which took two hours away from my party time), this year I selected (begged) three cavers to do the judging for me. When it was time for the judges to show up, only two of them did and they only had a handful (less than 10) photos to chose from. The majority of the photos that were entered were disqualified because people did not read the rules which I thought were pretty darn simple and there were only TWO Categories for photos. It was a lot of work setting up the area for the salon and getting all the materials ready for not a lot of participation so it was kinda a defunk that one person got several ribbons anyways. I doubt I will be willing to volunteer to host it again.
Kelly
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Marduke wrote:innermostphoto wrote: The issue of touching a formation or not is a non issue in my opinion. While I do not exhibit such in my own images,
Ahem...
rowland7840 wrote:.... only had a handful (less than 10) photos to chose from. The majority of the photos that were entered were disqualified because people did not read the rules which I thought were pretty darn simple and there were only TWO Categories for photos. It was a lot of work setting up the area for the salon and getting all the materials ready for not a lot of participation so it was kinda a defunk that one person got several ribbons anyways. I doubt I will be willing to volunteer to host it again.
Kelly
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NZcaver wrote: I guess I'm just a hater.
Footleg wrote:rowland7840 wrote:.... only had a handful (less than 10) photos to chose from. The majority of the photos that were entered were disqualified because people did not read the rules which I thought were pretty darn simple and there were only TWO Categories for photos. It was a lot of work setting up the area for the salon and getting all the materials ready for not a lot of participation so it was kinda a defunk that one person got several ribbons anyways. I doubt I will be willing to volunteer to host it again.
Kelly
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As an organizer of photo salons in the UK, I know how frustrating it can be. I was curious as to how your 2 categories might result in most entries being unsuitable so I googled the web page for the TAG salon and found out what they were. 1) Caves. 2) Cavers.
So now I am wondering what on earth got submitted that did not fit into one of those two categories?! They seem pretty all inclusive!
rowland7840 wrote:I thought the rules were simple. I tried my best to keep it as simple as possible. Photos of just caves w/ no critters & no cavers & then those with critters or cavers... We had photos submitted into the "caves" category that had cavers in the picture. Max per person was three and they had also submitted photos in the Cavers category so we couldn't just switch the category for them because they were already at their max... So they were disqualified from the juding in that category. Several photographers made this mistake.
Anonymous_Coward wrote:NZcaver wrote: I guess I'm just a hater.
Glad to see you are finally coming to terms with this, Jansen. Acceptance is the first step.
rowland7840 wrote:I thought the rules were simple. I tried my best to keep it as simple as possible. Photos of just caves w/ no critters & no cavers & then those with critters or cavers... We had photos submitted into the "caves" category that had cavers in the picture. Max per person was three and they had also submitted photos in the Cavers category so we couldn't just switch the category for them because they were already at their max... So they were disqualified from the juding in that category. Several photographers made this mistake.
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