From: "P. J. Alling"
On 2/10/2010 6:29 PM, frank theriault wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Miserere wrote:
>
>
>> I have more practical reasons for hating contests: I never win, even
>> though my entry is always clearly the best.
>>
> Me too!
>
> Mind you, since I never en
On 2/10/2010 6:29 PM, frank theriault wrote:
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Miserere wrote:
I have more practical reasons for hating contests: I never win, even
though my entry is always clearly the best.
Me too!
Mind you, since I never enter, it's even harder for me to win...
;
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Miserere wrote:
> I have more practical reasons for hating contests: I never win, even
> though my entry is always clearly the best.
Me too!
Mind you, since I never enter, it's even harder for me to win...
;-)
cheers,
frank
--
"Sharpness is a bourgeois conce
On 9 February 2010 10:43, frank theriault wrote:
>
> I've often voiced my dislike of photo contests here, and now I can add
> another arrow to my quiver of reasons - the distinct possibility of
> fraud or cheating!
Frank,
I have more practical reasons for hating contests: I never win, even
thoug
frank theriault wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
>
>> I recall reading a lot of discussion about it a few months ago.
>> perhaps not on PDML, but somewhere.
>>
>> It really just goes to show how difficult real photojournalism is.
>> These students who faked their entry
> >
>
> Along similar lines, a number of years ago a friend of mine
> and I were discussing that "International Poetry Contest"
> that is pretty much something to be avoided... and is still
> around , I think. ... this was pre internet... . As a lark,
> he entered a poem "he" wrote... and en
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
> I recall reading a lot of discussion about it a few months ago.
> perhaps not on PDML, but somewhere.
>
> It really just goes to show how difficult real photojournalism is.
> These students who faked their entry were able to set up scenes, pos
Mark Roberts wrote:
Bob W wrote:
This is a good story which a lot of people might find interesting. Forgive
me if it's old hat, but I hadn't heard of it before Saturday
...
In short, some journalism students entered a faked story into a contest run
by Paris Match, and won. Then they reveal
Bob W wrote:
>This is a good story which a lot of people might find interesting. Forgive
>me if it's old hat, but I hadn't heard of it before Saturday, when it was a
>topic of lengthy discussion in the French class I'm taking.
>
>In short, some journalism students entered a faked story into a cont
This is a good story which a lot of people might find interesting. Forgive
me if it's old hat, but I hadn't heard of it before Saturday, when it was a
topic of lengthy discussion in the French class I'm taking.
In short, some journalism students entered a faked story into a contest run
by Paris Ma
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