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joris
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# Posted: 11 Feb 12 14:28 - Edited by: joris
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Well this time it was Woophy San Francisco’s turn to choose the winner for Woophy’s World Photo Contest. And as most of you already know, January’s theme was “Culture”. This contest had over 700 entries, and even though that number is down from December’s contest, judging the contest was still quite an undertaking. There were just SO MANY amazing photos.
Now to give you some insight into how the judging process went, Terry and I were the judges this time and we decided to start off by independently finding our Top 10 personal choices. Then we would share our top picks with each other, discuss things a bit, and (hopefully) declare a winner.
Now for my part, I, WoophySF(JP), started off by looking for photos that I felt best represented mankind vs. nature. I initially felt that a strong representation of mankind’s existence and accomplishments would also translate into a strong representation of culture. So, in the beginning, I was looking for things that might have moved me if I were travelling along a road and happened to come across whatever was being shown in the photo. This meant things like castles, monuments, cites, etc. soon became leading candidates for me.
But then after a while, I started seeing more and more photos with actual people in them. And this changed my mind a bit. I then started to feel that photos best representing culture (at least to me) were ones where people were actually enjoying, or otherwise being involved with their culture.
Terry on the other hand seemed mostly impressed by structures. He also seemed impressed with boats and activity near water (4 of his Top 10 photos had something to do with water).
Now as far as how the winning photo was eventually decided, from my perspective, when I first saw the photo, I felt it was almost the perfect representation of what the term “culture” means to me and what in my mind makes culture is so interesting. It really stood out to me.
In that photo I felt both an immense amount of pride as well as wonder coming through. Both of those traits speak directly to me about the power of culture and that’s what really made this photo a winner for me. I especially like how the man (a host??) has his arm raised as if he is showing off the vast expanse of the area. Then at the same time you have a man (possibly his guest) politely taking it all in.
But that was just me. What about Terry??
Well, as you might imagine, Terry also liked the photo and I was greatly relieved when I found out that he had also placed it in his Top 10. This made an almost impossibly difficult job just that much easier for us and after discussing things a bit we both decided to finalize the winner as well as recognize 4 great honorable mentions.
And well, that’s pretty much it!!
Thanks to everyone who entered the contest and congratulations to the winner and our 4 great honorable mentions!!
Post your pictures for this month’s theme ‘Cityscape’ here.
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Lali
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# Posted: 11 Feb 12 15:46
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Congratulations to Zerega, Geert Geenen and Debashis Mukherjee!
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hardloperjan (Jan Landman)
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# Posted: 11 Feb 12 16:06
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Congratulations Zerega, and Debashis and Geert, great pictures (and a very nice competition)
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Dieuwertje
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# Posted: 11 Feb 12 17:38
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Zerega, Geert Geenen and Debashis Mukherjee, my congratulations. !!!
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trudy tuinstra
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# Posted: 11 Feb 12 19:14
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Congratulations!!!!!!!! And I liked all teh other pictures also very much!
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Christian C
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# Posted: 12 Feb 12 01:51
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Congratulations Zerega for your very good winning picture, and for the other honorable mention.
Congrats also to Geert Geenen and to Debashis Mukherjee for the special and honorable mentions.
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Kambrosis
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# Posted: 12 Feb 12 13:47
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Congratulations to Zerega for the winning picture!
Also, of course to Geert Geenen and Debashis Mukherjee for the special and honorable mentions.
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zoidberg
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# Posted: 12 Feb 12 14:41
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congratulations to all the winners
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PBX
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# Posted: 12 Feb 12 19:30
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Congratulations Zerega and also Geert and Debashis.
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Dieneke Boonstra
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# Posted: 13 Feb 12 15:22
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Zerega, Geert Geenen and Debashis Mukherjee, congratulations!
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zerega
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# Posted: 16 Feb 12 15:39 - Edited by: zerega
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Thank you so much for choosing pictures that are a bit off-mainstream. I mean photos which are a piece of grey sludge thumbnail sized and only unfold their oomph when looked at closely, large version. And some are even devoid of color, have a look at some of Debashis great b/w pics of otherwise color-blasting India.
Just take the Santa pic, probably like most of us I only discovered it here and after Joris pointed at the hilarious details. Maybe woophy could set up something like a local-real-life-tab featuring selected photos like this one, navigable from the woophy map.
And yes, JP and Terry, I enjoyed very much reading the chain of thoughts how you came up with the winning photo.
Joris, thanks for the book, it came today and looks very posh. Will be the snowed-in Sunday afternoon coffeetable indulgence!
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A.Miguel Oliveira
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# Posted: 16 Feb 12 17:36
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Many congratulations to S. (Zerega) and also to Geert and Debashis for your pictures and correct selection by the staff!!!
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joris
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# Posted: 17 Feb 12 18:12
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the result page is now also updated with the jury report http://www.woophy.com/contest/2012_1
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