Shay wrote:
> 
> The real question is why you submit your entries to the IRTC.
> 
I am conscious that my best answers to this question are evasive.

> My last entry was non competetive, but the picture on which I'm working
> right now is much much much more so. The picture focuses on pattern, and I
> can imagine the complaints about repetition already. An entrant can create a
> simple cg window and repeat it across a building one hundred times, yet I
> know that my creating an element with tens of thousands of vertices and
> repeating it ten times will be sharply criticised.<g> So I'm obviously not
> submitting something for accolades. If I wanted accolades, I would do
> something for which I have more of an innate talent. Visual art is very
> difficult for me.

I looked up your entry.  I remember it well.  That round was the first 
one it which I participated as a 'panel judge'.  I took the whole thing 
very seriously.  I remember I felt extremely self-conscious adding 
commemts.  I felt that it would be easier if I was also in the contest.
I remember that your entry challenged me in the extreme.  I wanted to 
ignore it.  I typically only comment on about 1/3 of the entries anyway. 
  But I couldn't back away from it.  Rereading my comments just now, my 
first reaction was that I must have been hallucinating.  I took awhile 
to remember what I was trying to say.  I realize that ultimately I was 
talking more about my own ideas than yours.  Ah the pitfalls.  I can 
assure you, though, that I gave it my best shot.  You really had me 
flat-footed.  I remember being impressed by the degree of the technical 
problems you had solved in the service of such an idiosyncratic image. 
I really didn't know how to approach it.  After reading your description 
I can understand why you found some of the criticisms annoying.  You got 
quite a few superlatives back too. But I understand that you are trying 
for a different level than that.

> 
> The reason that I will submit the picture (if I do) is that I want others to
> do the same. I spend a lot of my time looking for things that are good. Good
> movies, good books, good art, etc., and I find so few. Every picture which I
> have not yet seen has the potential to be another of my very favorite
> things. Besides, there is always the potential (however small) that someone
> will see my picture who feels the same way that I do about it.

Now I better understand why you reacted to my reviews of works from the 
current competition.

-Jim

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