On 02/11/13 10:49, rupert THURNER wrote:
To my knowledge, there was no such rule at least in the first wlm
competition in Switzerland. But it was clear at all points to the jury
not to select somebody s fathers picture. No rule can make up for a lack
of common sense and a certain sense of honor.
So, if you had a rule, i find your decision great. If there was no rule,
i d never overrule the jury. The international jury will need no rule to
not select this picture for any price, no matter how good it is.
To give another example we experienced where i would find a rule helpful:
A single person submits multiple excellent images. The jury did not see
the names when making the final decision and selected 3 images of this
person into the final set of images. At a national level the jury
wanted to give only one price to the person, because at the end its a
peoples contest as well. there was a discussion how it would be possible
to leave it to the international jury which of the 3 they like most,
have 10 persons submitted, and give 10 prices to 10 persons on a
national level.
Rupert
Giving out 10 prizes to 10 people is easy: give the prizes to #11 and
#12. The question on which of his photos should represent them on
international level is much harder. Although you could as well submit
his three photos but only provide one prize (hopefully not too
controversial, but it would be desirable that your contest had a “only
one prize per head” rule).
My POV on the original questions :
- Yes, I would consider “father” a family member.
- The local organization is the gate for the international level, so it
can ban a photo from entering there (actually I find more problematic
that it is sent to the international round than it being discarded).
- If the rules stated that no family members of the jury can
participate, the jury decision was «buggy». Rejecting that photo and
requesting a new result from the jury (typically just entering the next
scored picture) is indeed the right thing to do.
If your chapter doesn't want a family member to win but your rules
didn't state that, it would have been much shady decision, which is why
I consider important that the rules are as detailed as possible, despite
not really liking long legalese-like pages (promoting a summarised
version ftw).
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