Poll - Are you a photo competitions sort of person?

[Toast]

I will when I get sorted with some lenses.

But I won't win anything as I'm a bit old fashioned and like photos to be photos, the modern trend seems to have too much emphasis on editing suites, where the photos have been doctored too much.

[mark_jacobs]

...But I won't win anything...

You won't if you don't enter entry details are > here <.

As Paul points out this is an old thread but previous years APOY winners and placed, '09, '10 and '11 can be viewed > here <. Are they photos?

[Toast]

You won't if you don't enter entry details are > here <.

As Paul points out this is an old thread but previous years APOY winners and placed, '09, '10 and '11 can be viewed > here <. Are they photos?

Oh I will enter thats for sure.

[Old git]

Haven't any interest in them - don't even look at the results of competitions

Ditto....

[mark_jacobs]

Oh I will enter thats for sure.

Happy to hear that Toast and I wish you and other, interested , entrants well

[LargeFormat]

I would point out this is a old poll and thread from 2011.

Thanks for pointing this out, I wondered why I was still getting the 36MP poll.

[velocette]

I do belong to a club but never attend or enter competitions as they have absolutely no interest to me. This unfortunately limits my attendance to at most a third of meetings but as I can't see the point of competitions is just something I currently except. Being that 'art' is such a subjective thing I cannot see how it is possible to differentiate between entries without recourse to ridiculous artificial rules. If for the sake of argument there was a landscape competition comprising the works of Turner, Van Gogh, Monet and Constable who would win? In my club mounts form part of the judging and how the hell can an ability to mount a photograph have any bearing of the quality of that photograph. If a plant, animal or insect are depicted the Latin name of it must be given on the back! What rot, it has no bearing on the photograph at all. Competitions are to me somebody else telling me what I should like or photograph and are a complete waste of time. Photographic exhibitions I do enjoy and visit as many as I can allowing me to see a wide variety of photograph many of which although often well known would get nowhere in the competition world. End of rant....