Photo contests - "How to choose?"



Dear citizens of the world,

I am now trying to send photos to participate in as many photo contests as possible. It is a great way to learn and an incentive to improve.

The hard part is choosing the photos. The art of photography is so subjective; each contest has so many possible winners. It is also very personal. Many pictures I take mean something to me, but I don't know how others see them...or what they see. Even if two people agree that they like a photo, they probably don't like it for the same reasons.

The above picture is from a bridge over the Bosphorus, outside of Istanbul:
it is taken in winter,
the weather is cold and crisp,
the shot is taken in Europe,
but the far shore is Asia,
the massive bridge dwarfs the container ship,
the mosque in the foreground is plain, elegant, clean,
double minarets are complimented by the double supports of the bridge,
smaller boats at the bottom help balance the picture and reinforce the contrasts,
both modern and new...

Many more aspects connected to the photo are impossible to see (but they are important to me):
The water is full of thousands of jellyfish,
It is my birthday,
smells of Turkey from the market nearby,
the fuzzy feeling I have after having a hot Turkish coffee,
the cold winter air and the warm afternoon sun,
...

This picture got me a 7th place in a competition years ago. Now I need to choose another picture for a new (colour) photo contest. Do you like it? What do you see? What do you feel?



Any and all comments are welcome. Please forward the link to anyone that would be interested in commenting.

The United Statesian

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