Vangard "landscape" comp.

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14 Nov 2009 - 9:06 PM

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JJGEE

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14 Nov 2009 - 9:23 PM

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Because the judges from Vanguard deemed it to be.

Quote: "This is the ultimate example of exploring new angles! It’s different. Simple. And yet very creative! A nice call for imagination. Bravo!"

Have to admit that I would never have thought that a close-up shot of a pair of denim jeans could be classed as a Landscape !

JJGEE

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14 Nov 2009 - 9:32 PM

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Vanguard Landscape Competition

DonnaN

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14 Nov 2009 - 10:01 PM

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I think it's a clever idea; but I agree that those that entered with genuine landscape images must be extremely disappointed with the judging.

ringyneck (e2 Member)

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14 Nov 2009 - 10:13 PM

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Quote: 45 Pages, that is over 700 entries...wonder if all those people will bother next time round ?

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This is exactly the same thing that came to my mind while I was just browsing the gallery...and then I thought ooops that would be the end of sponorship on here......AND advertising for the company....what a mess.

Keith

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15 Nov 2009 - 3:09 AM

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When you enter a competition you are totally at the judges mercy. I have seen several instances of unbelievable winners in the last 4 or 5 years. Schweppes portrait comp 2 or 3 years ago? A skinny kid holding a roughly bundled baby in front of an orphanage. Two old ladies with Rainmates in place, standing in a bus shelter winning a seaside competition or whatever it was. I put in an entry (3 entries) for Iontas, pronounced intiss, in Sligo a few years ago. You should have seen the overall winner. A photograph of a rusty folding bed with the mattress slashed with a Stanley knife or something similar and a Teddy bear shoved up through the slash, so that its face was visible. First prize. The judge was, as far as I can remember, an Irish woman who was the curator of modern art in a museum in Madrid. Second and third were equally dire. There's an interesting story there too. There's a taxi driver in Sligo who sells photos of local landscapes/beautyspots to his passengers and makes a few bob doing so, and more power to his elbow (or shutter finger!) Anyhow, the bould taxi man entered some of his shots for a competition in Sligo, and he didn't win!
Now we're looking at a bloke who works away, picks up fares, drops off fares, and manages to boost his takings selling photographs.
Didn't even get a mention in the results. So what do you do? Well the way it was told to me, he physically attacked the judge.
Jump, thump, kick & bump!
So nowadays they fly the judge in, do the judging in private and fly the judge back out before the results are made public.
Sounds like a wise move because the judging of the competition I entered looked like it had been carried out by a retard.

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15 Nov 2009 - 8:33 AM

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To go against the grain here, I can see where they were coming from.

It treats the subject as a traditional landscape shot and includes many of the elements you would expect. I doubt it would have been popular had it won a macro competition either.

I suppose I might feel differently if I had entered.

Coleslaw (e2 Member)

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15 Nov 2009 - 8:58 AM

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Quote: That's just an insult to all of those who entered the competition with landscape.

why?
I entered but I didn't feel insulted.
It is a clever idea, it stands out.
That's how to win a competition, landscape or not!