I never submit more than one photo at a time, and those submissions are infrequent. For one, it's too much work, and I have other things to do. I do feel somewhat obligated to vote. I don't like the process, but it's the only one we have, and I figure I ought to contribute some time to making it work. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > AlunFoto wrote: > > >If it is so that only the submitting photographers vote, it's not at > >all surprising that it takes a fortnight to get the pics through the > >procedure. > > > >We know that 40 votes are required for each photo before it is > >presented to the jury (if I'm the only one to have received this info, > >I'll forward the mail from the Gallery people). IOW, the process will > >take as long as it takes 40 photographers to log on and cast votes, > >plus the time it takes the Pentax jury to provide the final verdict. > > > >As one who vote frequently, I know there are literally hundreds of > >photos passing through the system every week. From looking at the EXIF > >metadata in the shots, it also seems likely that each photographer > >submit 5-10 pictures per round of verdicts from Pentax. Which means > >that with eg. 300 shots per week, you have a pool of 30-60 voting > >photographers. > > > >Assume 60 photographers, and each would have to vote for 200 photos a > >week to grind all the submissions through the mill. > > Interesting information. I hadn't known much of this before. > > I must be an oddball: I only submit one photo at a time and generally > wait until it's either accepted or rejected before sending another. I > don't produce enough work that I think worthy of consideration for me > to batch-submit. > > When I was about 5 years old one of my favorite stories was "The Little > Red Hen". She spends most of the story trying to get the other barnyard > animals to help her make bread, but no one wants to help with > harvesting the wheat, grinding it into flour, making the dough, etc.... > but in the end they all want to help eat the loaf. > > The Pentax Gallery seems to be a little like that: A lot of people want > to get their photos shown there, but very few pitch in to the work that > makes the Gallery possible. > > >There are currently 500 published photographers in the gallery, btw. > > Given how many they receive, that's a very low number. No wonder it's > so tough to get an image accepted. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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