Mark, Sorry for the shorter reply to your second e-mail. To break it down to basics, the site administrators are being more critical now than when they first started reviewing images. This is due to the very large number of images being submitted (we actually thought we would have a hard time getting enough images and artists - imagine our surprise). Since we are getting quite a few submissions, it is difficult to give an explanation for every image that is declined, and sometimes a revised image isn't accepted again (if better work has been submitted by the artist).
Again, sorry for the short reply to your direct e-mail. Thanks, John -----Original Message----- From: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 3:02 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: pentax Gallery: Interesting correspondence A while back I noticed some errors in the data I had included with photos I'd had accepted into the Pentax Gallery. I edited the data to correct it and the photos went into the "awaiting approval" queue again. And as has happened to others, one of my previously approved images was rejected. So, just for the heck of it, I sent an email to ask why the images needed to be reviewed again if only the text associated with them was changed. It seems to me to be actively discouraging people from correcting mistakes (or just misspellings, in my case), as well as making unnecessary work for the judges. Anyway, I got a reply which did discuss some of the qualities they are looking for and how they look, not only at the overall contents of the Pentax Gallery, but at the individual submitter's body of work. (I hadn't considered that and it seems like a very sensible idea.) As far as why an photo would need to be reviewed again when the image data hasn't changed, I got only: >If you change any data on an image, it will need to be re-accepted. >Unlike the artist approval, even though an image was accepted before, >it may not be accepted again. Which of course we already knew. So I wrote back saying I was interested in knowing why this was the case, since it didn't seem to make sense to discourage photographers from correcting errors. Perhaps it's my imagination, but the reply seemed slightly peeved and commented that the question had been answered in the first email.. which it quoted exactly as above. I didn't write back to point out that the above most certainly not answer the question of *why* this is the case. I didn't want to be rude and heck, it's their gallery; they're entitled to run it any way they like. I was just curious. I like to know how things work! The first email mentioned that the Gallery has been *far* more successful (interms of interest and submissions) than they expected and is generating a large volume of submissions. So personally, I think the "re-review upon data change" is something that started out as a database bug and is now being used to thin the herd, so to speak :) Needless to say, any further errors I find in my submissions will remain uncorrected! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
