Nieminen Mika wrote:

>   You sound angry.

Me ! Angry ? Not at all. I'm only expressing an opinion.

>   Maybe there is people out there, who first start judging the images
> very carefully. They examine the images very detailedly. Images and more
> images, and still more... After examining 30-40 images, they become a little
> tired and their concentration is not as good as at the beginning and they
> start to analyze the images more quickly and with less enthusiasm. Maybe
> they watch the last images just a half or less the time they watched the
> first images. The judging may suffer.

   This is where it is incumbent upon those doing the judging to allowsufficient
time for the task. It is not something that should be rushed.
There is certainly no deadline on the judging. That is to say no one is
making you view them all at once and render an opinion for each
right now. It can be sampled over the period of a few days allowing
for fatigue and other factors to even out. If people are unable to handle
the task of judging multiple entries no matter how great the number then
perhaps they don't belong on the judging panel.
   Not everyone has the temperament, concentration power, or personal
drive to accept the responsibility and should admit this to themselves.
There is no doubt about the responsibility placed on the shoulders of each
judge and there are very real personal feelings at jeopardy when you
consider the number of hours it takes to put together a scene worthy of
submitting to the competition.

 This responsibility should not be accepted lightly on the part of those who
stand in judgment over others.

( I really like that last line. )

Ken Tyler

>   Of course this is not the case with all the people (it's curious that when
> you say "some people" people read "everyone"), but it's very possible.
>
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