Dan,
Why do you bother?
The interface is slooooow and cumbersome.
The picture of the yellow stairs seems broken (bottom half missing).
I don't like to be sent there to view pictures.
Regards,  Bob S.

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I continue to be mystified by the official Pentax Photo Gallery and
> the process of reviewing submissions.  I find that I am unable to
> predict what they will like and what they will promptly reject.
>
> The last three or four times I had submitted images, before this
> month, they took a long time to review them.  Then, they would
> promptly reject most, and keep one or two "under review" for another 2
> weeks before rejecting those as well.
>
> Then, I submitted 10 images two weeks ago, and they very quickly
> rejected one and accepted two.   One of the ones the accepted was a
> "pretty postcard" that had been previously submitted and rejected.
> The other was this one:
>
> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/home#section=ARTIST&subSection=1309043&subSubSection=10204520&language=EN
>
> While I like that image, I certainly didn't think it was the strongest
> I had submitted in that group, and I was shocked that it was accepted,
> let alone so quickly.  Just as a test, I then posted that image here
> as a PESO, and it drew only ONE comment.  I have learned here that if
> a PESO gets few comments, that means most of the photographers on this
> list considered it unworthy or worse, mundane.
>
> I now have a modest little gallery of 17 images on the Pentax Photo Gallery:
>
> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
>
> I don't fool myself into thinking that is a measure of my skill as an
> artist, however, since a couple are cute little fawns that wandered
> into my yard and virtually forced me to take their portraits, and
> several others are landscapes of beautiful places that I have been
> lucky enough to visit on a nice day.  There are only a few among the
> 17 that are original or artistic in any sense of those terms.
>
> In any event, one thing that bothers me is the way the size limitation
> is structured.  The recommended image size is 600 pixels high. There
> is no stated limit on width, however.  That means the images in
> portrait orientation are much smaller -- in both the thumbnail and the
> "full" size -- than images in landscape orientation or even square
> images.  I think that it makes it more difficult to get a portrait
> image in the gallery and worse, it makes it harder to appreciate those
> in the gallery that are in portrait orientation and therefore quite
> reduced in size.  Has anyone else noticed this?
>
> In any event, I am pleased that they took 2 out of my last 10, and
> that seven more are still "under review."  More than that, I have
> found the process of reviewing my images and trying to pick out the
> ones I think are the best candidates to be interesting and
> educational.  It can be even more educational to see what the folks at
> the Pentax Gallery think of them.  For example, they rejected most of
> my favorite diner images, including one shot taken inside of a diner
> that I think is one of my best images ever;  but, they accepted
> another interior image of a diner, that I personally like but didn't
> think was nearly as good as the one they rejected.  I spent almost an
> hour comparing the two the other day, and finally concluded it is just
> another case of "different strokes for different folks."
>
> Dan
>
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