Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Hope Springs Eternal...

It's 2014, and I just finished scanning, editing (remember when that referred to only one process in the photographic "workflow"?) and submitting a few hopefuls (for what will currently remain an unnamed competition). I suppose a valid question is... why persist in participating in what traditionally culminates as an endless collaboration with futility? Well...

Photo: SB (not an entry)
1)  It's one way to actually motivate my ass to make print worthy, hi-res files from my silver neg scans (and that alone is reason enough).

2)  Yes, photographing for oneself has to be one's major motivation (granted), but it would be nice if a few other people got to see one or two results- particularly in a manner that celebrates them for a small period of time at proper viewing quality, rather than just having them diluted into the endless deluge of daily, lo-res imagery.

3)  I don't exactly enter and participate in each and every lame competition that comes by each and every year- and then, only after reading the fine print.

4)  Hope springs eternal... No, really- these are going to win!!!  Serious.

1 comment:

erik chevalier said...

point 5 could be that as homo sapiens' we have a duty to communicate...