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).