Minutes ago … an email came in which made me think I should write an entry to rant about this. Recently I have been receiving quite a number of emails asking me to vote for some photos. It is some online contest where participants get friends and relatives or whoever is in their contact list to vote for their kids’ photos in a few categories. I have always avoided such photo ‘contests’ where the winning photos are based on public votes. Why? I don’t quite agree with this method of picking a winner(s).
Let’s take for example … a category that says ‘Biggest Eyes’. So what if this person who managed to get tons of his friends and relatives to vote for his/her child … wins the contest for this category … while there are lots of other photos with kids with bigger (and maybe prettier) eyes in the shortlist?
Some might disagree (especially those who are desperately trying to win) but that’s just my thoughts. Even with a 50-50 voting system (50% determined by judges), I think this is not really fair. Hahaha. No … I am not ranting because I didn’t win in any of these contests. I’m more interested to win in Lomography’s contests because they give me bucks to buy more cameras.
I know some of you who are reading this are ‘guilty’ of emailing me too. Hahahaha! Don’t worry. Some of your photos did get my vote, not because I happen to know you … but because I think the photo/kiddo deserves the vote. Ya right. You must be laughing why I bother writing this … since my 1 little vote doesn’t really matter. Right? Then why did you email me?! 😛 Nah. Joking.
For those who are in the ‘race’ … I wish you good luck and may your kiddo photo win.
Come to think of it … I think I received at least 8 to 10 such emails recently.