Pe luni, 11 noiembrie 2019, Wilfredo Rodríguez <wilfredor(a)gmail.com> a
scris:
As usual I am not very happy with the result of the
WLM evaluations (Maybe
they should take into account the community by selecting juries among
commons users and not clubs or photographers of interredicha quality who
don't know the criteria of our community). I remember having stopped
participating in WLM Venezuela since the winners were selected with
Facebook likes also the best photographer in commons of Venezuela withdrew
from commons due to this problem (User:Paolostefano1412
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Paolostefano1412>). In the case
of Canada, I don't know how the photographs were evaluated and it would be
very easy to say from my winning position (I won 5 pictures of the top 10)
that I agree with the results but no, I think there were many better photos
even than the first place that were not selected, It also leaves much to
think about the third place that is not even a monument.
Hi Wilfredo,
Why don't you get in contact with the organizers and ask them to include
you in next year's jury? This way you will have a say in how the pictures
are evaluated and those other (better, in your view) photographers will
have a better chance.
This is exactly what happened with last year's winner in Romania and I
believe he made for a very good jury member :)
Anyway, it is already something known, these contests say absolutely
nothing, and every year they lose more participation
The more years a country has organized WLM, the harder it is to get diverse
monuments into the contest. This in turn makes it harder to use the images
on the projects, which is something the grant team looks at when giving you
the money to organize.
Some contests then concentrate on having great images, while other
concentrate on monuments diversity and the international organizers aim for
more abstract targets, as Lily described above. That means that the local
contest might not necessarily say anything about your photography skills,
but that's OK - there are always other events in our community that you
might want to consider participating in.
Strainu
Former WLM organizer and current critic. :)