Originally Posted by Matjazz
In some way I actually like the way PPG works - my pictures are being judged by people that don't know me a bit and are unbiased in that regard. The picture is then either good or not.
Do NOT take PPG as an indication of whether your pictures are good or not. Granted, if you get one in, that's a fairly good indication that a large number of people understood what you were trying to say so there's reason to feel good about that. But a rejection doesn't mean a picture isn't good. As we've seen from the accounts of folks on this forum, there are pictures that are great pics by any reasonable measure, but for some reason they don't make the cut in the PPG. So who's right about these pictures? The PPG voters? The galleries that display Rosemary's work? The corporations that use Ben's work? Whose judgement should we accept? Ultimately, I believe like a previous poster that we should accept only our own judgement. If the PPG voters like it, that's great. If they don't, eh...that's okay, too. We all need to measure our work by our own internal yardsticks because that's really all that matters and it's the thing that will keep us moving forward.
(Matjazz...even though I quoted you, I didn't mean my post as being directed towards you specifically. It's just how I think we need to look at PPG (myself included.)