March contest update

I need some help. At some point in the last 3 months, I saw a selection of photos of Provincetown in the winter in this section. They were gorgeous! I selected one as my background but my nephew wanted to change it and so trying to be a good aunt, I let him. I have searched this site trying to find the photos again but I can't.
Please............beaches are at their most beautiful in the winter.
Thank you.

Hmmm, Mary Beth --- we haven't run winter scenes that were specific to Provincetown, but a couple of recent contests had winter as a theme, and there may have been a couple of photos from Provincetown mixed in. One was in December, where the contest theme was 'Tis the Season; the other was in January, with Cold as the theme. Our contest entries are submitted via Flickr, so that may be the best place for you to look first.

Here are our December entries:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=boston.com+contest+december&m=tags

And here's January:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=boston.com+contest+january&m=tags

Another thought: Our Travel section runs lots of reader photos. Maybe that's where you spotted Provincetown photos. Check out this page:
http://www.boston.com/travel/columns/wheretheywent/

Good luck!
Teresa

How many of the final 50 were his students?

I don't know, Anne; once we realized that even a couple had been past students, Lance recused himself from choosing the Top 10. We didn't bother looking at all 50 in Flickr.

For reasons like this situation, I much prefer a blind jurying process. I don't mean that the judges should be, or are blind, although sometimes I wonder :-)

In such a process, the submitters' names (and artist statements, image info, etc.) are hidden from the judges during the jurying. The judges' opinions would then be based only on the images, and not influenced by whether the submitters are known, or by the stated intents and creation process of the images. After all, why should anything other than the images themselves be part of the jurying?

Even when done this way, there are chances that judges may recall having seen some images elsewhere, or recognize certain styles. Not perfect, but certainly better.

Hi, fairnsquare: We do use a blind judging process. Our judges don't see anything but the images that are submitted.

It must be quite difficult to run a photo contest such as this with regularity. You deserve kudos for pulling it off so well. Thanks!

I used to have dark hair.

I agree, thanks for all of the hard work running this thing! It's a great motivator.

Great, and thanks for being considerate. Blind jurying does take a little more work, and many contests would not bother.

Hair colors (as well as wrinkles, body shapes, etc.) are no longer a photographer's concerns. We now have PHOTOSHOP!

On a different topic. The April Archive link below has not been updated to include the wildlife galleries. If this is intentional, where can I now find all the new entries to the blog? Also, on the RAW homepage, there is no April Archive link.

http://www.boston.com/community/photos/raw/2009/04/

Looking forward to seeing the final ten!