beejaybee
(Marvin)
06/01/2008 09:15
Re: Photography Competitions - New Poll

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I'll never forget the judge who described an emerging dragonfly as an "insect with prey". That tends to make it hard to respect further comments..




I know what you're getting at but I don't expect the judge of a photographic competition to have much more than a very basic understanding of natural history. It helps if they understand the difficulties of getting the shot but quite honestly it makes no difference at all if they misinterpret the biology of the subject - it's the pictorial quality that counts.

OTOH if they don't know, they should ask or refrain from making a definitive statement about the subject which has no bearing on the competition.

If the competition was for photography of insects in the wild i.e. approached from the natural history point of view rather than the photographic, things would be different.