Bruette
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Matt no need to be humble, those pictures are my favorites of all the real railroads! Just don't stand in front of a moving train!My humble contributions
Matt no need to be humble, those pictures are my favorites of all the real railroads! Just don't stand in front of a moving train!My humble contributions
Going back to the thread's start, it would seem not.Am I wrong? I thought this was supposed to be Model Photos!
Am I wrong? I thought this was supposed to be Model Photos!
Say NP2626: That's the way I always understood it also. The Photo Contest was supposed to be a way for us modelers to post shots of a portion of our layouts depicting a various scene so others could also get ideas to build upon. The photo's were to be judged on a variety of things to see who could come up with the most appealing photo of the month.
Lacking someone to do the judging has left the contest portion to fall by the wayside or sidetracked.
That is correct on both counts. We had trouble finding somebody to run the contest and set up the voting etc, it takes a lot of work.
There is also a more subtle problem with the photo contest, which is what really led to its demise. The Photo Contest format did not work well with organizing the images. Say you posted a great photo of a bridge. Six months later, somebody comes to the forum looking for bridge images. If you post a thread titled "Scratchbuilt HO Bridge" that would show up in the search. A random image in the contest gets lost. Even if you remember you saw the image in a contest, 6 months later will you remember which one it was? So that factor led me to not work to to hard to find somebody to run the contests.