Prejudice

We often have to wrestle with prejudice in competitions, especially in club comps. Remember it is only one persons opinion, you DO NOT have to take their advice, often the advice comes from a lack of understanding for a subject or more simply, "I do not like this type of photography" approach to your image. This is wrong, all assessors should approach an image with an open mind and only analysis it as it is presented to you, not with prejudice. This seems really hard for some folks to do, an attitude of "my way is the best" is often the attitude from these assessors, we do  not need this type of approach in club competitions, the assessing should be done with an approach of education not prejudice or bias. Regardless how badly you might get assessed or judged, we need to stay confident in our abilities, sometimes our ideas, stories we are trying to tell are misunderstood, some people want all the answers given too them in the image and do not like images that ask them too many questions.