Any thoughts on the final 12?
Lots of cute images. No farming images.
Many many good photos - 42,000 of them!
"Catchers in the Sky" lucky drone shot or composite?
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No farming images.
Make it film only.That will get the numbers down.Any thoughts on the final 12?
Lots of cute images. No farming images.
Many many good photos - 42,000 of them!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/ar...the-countryfile-photographic-competition-2019Are they available to see on-line?
For me the poorest group of 12 in the competition for some time, the 'Catchers in the sky' stood out as different but for all the wrong reasons.
I found myself struggling a bit to fit some of the into the theme.
Judging by John Craven’s comment that ‘being taken under controlled conditions IS within the rules, so long as it’s declared on the entry’ the BBC are heading off a storm of complaints? It’s noticeable the declaration wasn’t mentioned until after it had been judged.I understand the photo that made the cover (mouse in an apple?) was shot in controlled conditions with studio style flash at a workshop and not out in the wild...
Captive animals are within their rules (rule 1) as long as its declared by the photographer on entry. Does the BBC need to release that information to everyone else after they have chosen their images? Personally I don't think they do as long as it met their rules. It seems only photographers get in a huff about it and want to know if the photographer had mentioned it. I'm all for meeting rules etc but it's only the BBC country file calendar. It's not worth getting worried about. Any way it's not the first image of a captive animal to get the front cover. I remember one of other that got the cover and many captive/workshop images that have gotten into the calendar previously.I understand the photo that made the cover (mouse in an apple?) was shot in controlled conditions with studio style flash at a workshop and not out in the wild...
This shot is completely against the 'spirit' of the competition and does not send a good message to any youngsters, who may now think that it is perfectly ok to take creatures from the wild. There were thousands of fantastic natural shots to choose from, which were responsibly taken in the wild/garden and by entrants of all ages, with all types of camera. It's a complete disgrace in my opinion, that they should choose to 'endorce' this practice.
Countryfile ceased being a programme for farmers when they changed the format and shifted it from its Sunday morning slot.
Now it's just a bucolic TV show for townies, a shadow of its former self.
I just don't get it. Every time someone announces they've won a competition or had an image published the thread rapidly degenerates to slagging off the winner and/or the organiser.
Personally, I don't like the winning image but it fits the theme (sort of) and is within the rules. Bitching that the BBC didn't tell the voting public what the rules were is frankly ridiculous - it would have taken less than 30 seconds to Google the rules if you'd been interested enough before voting. If you didn't enter the competition what does it matter to you? Voting costs nothing and if you don't like the images don't buy the calendar - what have you got to feel aggrieved about?
Oh and, unless you can show me I'm wrong, the title of the competition doesn't mention "wildlife" and there's nothing in the rules to say the subject has to be wild and free; indeed three of the examples they give for subject matter are all domesticated or captive (beasts of burden, cattle and sheep).
I just don't get it. Every time someone announces they've won a competition or had an image published the thread rapidly degenerates to slagging off the winner and/or the organiser.
Personally, I don't like the winning image but it fits the theme (sort of) and is within the rules. Bitching that the BBC didn't tell the voting public what the rules were is frankly ridiculous - it would have taken less than 30 seconds to Google the rules if you'd been interested enough before voting. If you didn't enter the competition what does it matter to you? Voting costs nothing and if you don't like the images don't buy the calendar - what have you got to feel aggrieved about?
Oh and, unless you can show me I'm wrong, the title of the competition doesn't mention "wildlife" and there's nothing in the rules to say the subject has to be wild and free; indeed three of the examples they give for subject matter are all domesticated or captive (beasts of burden, cattle and sheep).
I just don't get it. Every time someone announces they've won a competition or had an image published the thread rapidly degenerates to slagging off the winner and/or the organiser.
Personally, I don't like the winning image but it fits the theme (sort of) and is within the rules. Bitching that the BBC didn't tell the voting public what the rules were is frankly ridiculous - it would have taken less than 30 seconds to Google the rules if you'd been interested enough before voting. If you didn't enter the competition what does it matter to you? Voting costs nothing and if you don't like the images don't buy the calendar - what have you got to feel aggrieved about?
Oh and, unless you can show me I'm wrong, the title of the competition doesn't mention "wildlife" and there's nothing in the rules to say the subject has to be wild and free; indeed three of the examples they give for subject matter are all domesticated or captive (beasts of burden, cattle and sheep).
Granted I get that but it’s not the first captive or set up image ever to grace the calendar....because - ethics.
I’m surprised winner was allowed through to the end, if only from personal experience.
I entered a few years back, the first time I’d sent any pic in to a competition. Very pleased to be told initially that I’d made the shortlist and then ultimately got chosen to be in the calendar. Yay.
However, between those two stages it was like a grilling from the Bristol Mafia over a period of several weeks. How did I take the picture, where, when, what gear? Had I entered it into any other competition?
I had to send in an electronic copy (they wanted prints for original competition), plus frames either side of the one I sent. Got asked to explain why the colours on their computer screen image were a little different from the print? They then obviously did an internet trawl and asked why my picture was being used in Russia?! (I assume it had been nicked off Flickr). I then had to agree to not use the pic anywhere else for 12 months and BBC Radio Cambridge had to get permission for a radio interview with me and a country ranger type fella for a bit of PR.
Didn’t bother again after that.