Shay wrote:
> 
> In the one round I entered, I made the commitment to comment on every
> entry.


That would turn my brain to pudding.

It was very difficult for the same reason that I have not
> commented on most of the threads in this group. I'm simply not
> qualified. 

You mean, I am guessing, that you are not technically qualified enough 
to make technical comments. I also have the same feeling but we differ 
then because I feel that content decisions are also important and can 
involve a lot of meaning, passion, expression, etc.  Still, I will allow 
that technical concerns are the major preoccupation at this stage in the 
development of the medium and that they underlie the effectiveness of 
the image whatever its intended content.

Anyway, I think that being able to introspect while letting an image 
affect you and then putting it into words is all the qualification
that is needed.  If all you find you are thinking about when you see an 
image is its technical shortcomings then so be it.  I think the comments 
I have seen you make so far are very accurate.

>
> 
> Your comments were actually really appreciated. 

Relieved to hear it.

> I'm tempted to send in my next
> entry without a topic description. Partly because I'm not sure I can
> communicate what I'm trying to do in a few paragraphs, if at all. I'm
> curious what type of reactions I would get as well. I'll likely submit
> one however, even though I believe that a picture should be complete
> without a description, because each entry is viewed for only a few
> seconds, and a topic description can help to accelerate comprehension.

It can definitely affect the scoring of a picture, I believe.  I have 
found that it influences me quite profoundly, along with knowledge of 
the artist's reputation.  I have personally, therefore, adopted the 
practice of using Winvote's fullscreen feature to go through all the 
images and score them without knowing who the artist is or what the 
description says.  Later I go through and read the textfiles and make 
some adjustments if I think it is really warrented.

  "I just wanted to see more height
> fields and less people trying to be creative."<g>
> 

LOL, that's precious.

I remember once, some discussion came up on these newsgroups after the 
"Worship" round.  One woman commented that my entry, "Chalice" could not 
have been the holy grail because it was, too paraphrase, "too fancy".

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