Reply To: County Fair rant- terrible judge!

[nesgran]

Two things, I still don’t understand why you as a professional photographer enter into  a competition for amateurs? Do you get a kick out of winning? Second, a shot doesn’t have to be technically perfect for it to be good or important. Let me point you to the great late Robert Capa, here are links to two of his most famous photographs, neither or which are brilliant technically: http://mediastore2.magnumphotos.com/CoreXDoc/MAG/Media/Home1/b/9/b/2/PAR115311.jpg and http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSpUR9TYqoD4QwRgBBZW5eck43tBd4usPgoctKCRBBPsjD3ZtTx . Maybe your derelict buildings didn’t do it for her, maybe she is a twat but so what? Enter into some more suitable competitions.

Unrelated but I’m still kicking myself I missed the Capa exhibition here in London a couple of weeks ago.