Judging

Judging, a time when our images are accessed by a more experienced member of the photographic community, or we hope so. We all have horror stories to tell, like the judge who judged a print comp & started by saying that obviously all the good print competitors had not entered this competition, oh my not a great thing to start with, or the judge who throw one of my images out because as far as he was concerned no such place could possibly exist so I had photographed some art work somewhere, when in fact it was an image from Antarctica. Here is the image.

 Over the last few years I had lost alot of faith in the judges in the PSNZ judges list. But credit to the new president & Bruce Gridwood, they are trying to improve the way PSNZ accredite their judges. They have ran one course in Chch recently,I attended the weekend workshop & it was very good. They have gone to alot of trouble to try & get new more open minded judges to go through the accreditation process. I hope they succeed because if we stick with some of the closed minded judges we have NZ club photography will not improve to a world standard & that is where we need to be aiming for.
The girl riding the sheep was a FIAP gold medal winner,there was 4000 images entered, it achieved an acceptance in Natex.