Al : The theme of this competition is ‘portraits’. We’ve kept this first competition to be fairly general in topic so as to be accessible to all. To be considered for a prize your photo needs to fit within this wide theme….Again, pretty simple… When people say portraits to me, I interpret it as a portrait of a person, but you can take it as you will.

Stickler away :) We all interpret things differently.

Best,
Sime

The word “portrait”.. does that include a close up shot of a flower? I asked a gentleman who entered a flower shot into the competition if it was a mistake and he replied: “Any picture can be put in a frame. It all depends on a persons style and intress there for Every picture is a portrait.”

Really? I mean really? Anything that can be put in a frame can be called a portrait??

And the kicker is, he’s currently in the top 25. Is that a damning fact against Phototrade users who’ll click on anything that has a “oooh pretty” factor or on me for being narrow minded? It’s a nice enough photo of a flower, but is it a portrait worthy of top 25 placement among the many good portraits there?

Strangely, the National Portrait Gallery doesn’t have a single photo I know of that is OF a flower.
I guess this photo (http://www.photrade.com/singlePhoto.php?photo_id=228506&group_id=217) is a better portrait than (http://www.photrade.com/singlePhoto.php?photo_id=245227&group_id=217) or (http://www.photrade.com/singlePhoto.php?photo_id=187044&group_id=217) or (http://www.photrade.com/singlePhoto.php?photo_id=205825&group_id=217) ??
I just hope that the panel decision has a lot more weight than member votes.

Anyway, off to bed..
Mr. Narrow-minded arrogant stickler for definitions ;)

I’m concerned that I may have unwittingly just put my photo up for sale or trade, and I do not wish to do so (nor do I have a model release). I’ll see if any helpful replies trickle in, or else will remove my entry soon.

(BTW, entry rules would have been more helpful is some file size & resolution requirements were indicated)

- Krista

We are experiencing some server/data base issues today… our servers were down for a bit today and we have some corruption in some of the data from yesterday. Our tech team is working to restore the data, and I will provide an update ASAP with the status.

I apologize for the inconvenience and we are doing everything we can to get this resolved ASAP. Thanks for your patience and we’ll let you know the status as soon as we get this fixed.

- Krista
(Krista Neher, VP Marketing, Photrade)
(Krista Neher – VP Marketing, Photrade)