Weekend Task #3 - Portraits of Photographers at work - no selfies only of others - VOTING WEEK

[Jeff WX1USN]

It's all good, Jeff. I was just surprised is all. Your portrait was my #1 pick too. I think it's great.

Thank you very much, as I mentioned it is one of the VERY few head and shoulders I have done, guess I am shy about asking people to pose, mostly just shoot and see what I get. I may try to start doing more portraits, once it gets warm again. Mostly I just sit by the pond looking for birds, lonely and contemplative.
And for years my photography was going places with the kids and carrying a camera and just shooting what was around, tons of pictures of Disney World! In fact I think I might start a Disney thread

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

In fact I think I might start a Disney thread

That would be nice! I'm sure others have pics of it too.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Ok if I don't vote in the challenge here are the results followed by when I did vote

1) Jeff 17
2) 3 way tie Tacphotog, Brother, Rosalie 10
3) Levina 9

with me voting

For the Gold: Jeff with 20 points
For the Silver: Tacphotog with 12 points
For the Bronze: Rosalie with 11 points

The main difference is who will decide on the next contest.

Well, fact is, it wasn't in the rules. And as such I suggest we leave it as is.

However, if nobody minds, I will put in a new rule in the template in the sticky that we can't vote for our own images.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Well, fact is, it wasn't in the rules. And as such I suggest we leave it as is.

However, if nobody minds, I will put in a new rule in the template in the sticky that we can't vote for our own images.

That makes sense.

 

[RDWP]

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Jan- I was hoping the guy in the background would post his photo of you

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Jan- I was hoping the guy in the background would post his photo of you

That's a good one!

 

[BrotherConstant]

Congratulations to the three winners. I didn't vote because I could not choose.

Thank you to the people who voted for my photo.

 

[JohnPD]

#1 Rosalie
#2 Jeff
#3 BrotherConstant

I picked Rosalie's entry as my favourite because I thought it was unique. For her to have taken that, underwater, in 1998 with a film camera is amazing. And I like how it looks.
I picked Jeff's pic as #2 because it is an excellent portrait of a man who seems totally himself. He doesn't pose. And the camera is beautiful!
I picked BrotherConstant's pic as my #3 because I just like it. I like the mood, the concentration on the photographer's face and I also like the processing.

It was difficult though because all entries were good and I really struggled with the voting.

 

[Jan1977]

Jan- I was hoping the guy in the background would post his photo of you

I wasn't in any of the photos that she (a woman, not a guy ;-) ) posted online. I only was opposite to her during one half and shot the other half from the same side of the pitch. Here is one of another photograper from a few years ago. And taken on a sunny day, not the cold day on which the photo was taken that I posted for this challenge .

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

I think it would be better to count the votes as 5 for first, 3 for second and one for third. This is the way it is done in every competion that I know of and would prevent ties

Friends, we should talk about this suggestion. Not sure it will always prevent a tie, but they would become less likely.

I was also thinking about the rule that in a voting week the runner up starts the new challenge if the host wins again. Maybe not everybody is keen to do that. How do you all think about changing that? One option could be to ask for a volunteer to do it (first to say yes gets the job).

Thoughts everybody? @Stiga and @RDWP ?