I was joking. I am guessing it just listed the first 3 entries as 1st, 2nd and 3rd hence the comment.Pete Eeles wrote:Ignore the gallery. When there are no votes, it still goes ahead and picks the top 3 based on nothing whatsoever!FISHiEE wrote:I see the gallery has already picked the winners. Damn I should have entered earlier!
Cheers,
- Pete
Do think it a little bit dodgy that the judges know the photographers of the images they are judging on, but then again I'm sure for the countryfile calendar competiton and many others I've had to write my details on the back of the images and I'm sure the judges didn't make a point of not looking. Admittedly they wouldn't know me from Adam unlike in the situation here where most know everybody else.
I'm sure we can trust the judges to be honest enough to be judging on the quality of the images and to be impartial to the name below the image. It's a pretty big undertaking to organise such a competition and they've put too much into it and this website in general not to go about the judging in a suitable manner.
Also by taking on the role of judging they have taken themselves out of the competition, so that's 3 of the competition out of the running!