I hope everyone will take this the right way, especially as I too am in the reject club, but I can actually see a good reason for the previous images to be rejected, in almost every case. I am saying this as someone who knows a bit about how galleries work and who has been involved with many artistic practices (theatre, sound art, dance, music, performance art and visual art) for many years, sometimes in a curatorship role.
This is not to say these are bad pictures... many are quite good or even excellent. But at this point PPG requires
stunning images. That is why I have only submitted two. In each case i thought they really added something to the existing repertoire of photos. They are not just flower macros, pets or handsome birds, no matter how good. And they must be technically without flaw.
But for all I know they did not even get past the voting stage.
And that is where the problem lies. Adding popular voting to a curator selection process confuses the criteria. It was a big mistake, IMO, because now the criteria are pretty well completely unknown. And why an image gets rejected is equally unknown. Why should someone be on the selection committee simply because they have signed up to submit photos? In terms of art curatorship this makes no sense.
What we can best do to help each other is to offer critique and not just consolation. Or, if we voted no for someone, we can say why.
So, tell me, what is wrong with these?