Flowers in My Room: Digital Photography Review

Dear friends,
'Flowers in my Room' has turned out to be the most difficult challenge to moderate.
We received complains for photographs taken out-door. We disqualified. Then we received complains on photographs which were difficult to find where actually had been taken... we disqualified. Then we started getting complains 'Why you DQ-d my snaps? Those were ACTUALLY taken indoor'.
In entirety, it has become very difficult to ascertain where exactly those snaps were taken.
So, we decided to be strict (which was the most difficult and heart-wrenching decision ever taken) and planned to keep only those snaps which are distinctly taken inside a room.
We DQ-d 75%.
We understand some of the snaps were taken indoors but those were not evident.
So, dear friends, thanks for your overwhelming response. Hope in future you all will show equal enthusiasm and take part.
All the very best!
Cheers!

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Well, I did ask politely and twice as to why both my entries have been disqualified, since they completely conformed to all the rules and suggestions within this Challenge. I was expecting at least an equally reasonable explanation which you never supplied. Now you announce the 75% of the entries being DQ'd, and still give no explanation about such drastic percentage!
Would you sincerely expect me to enter any more of your Challenges after such treatment?
Regards

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Dear friends,
'Flowers in my Room' has turned out to be the most difficult challenge to moderate.
We received complains for photographs taken out-door. We disqualified. Then we received complains on photographs which were difficult to find where actually had been taken... we disqualified. Then we started getting complains 'Why you DQ-d my snaps? Those were ACTUALLY taken indoor'.
In entirety, it has become very difficult to ascertain where exactly those snaps were taken.
So, we decided to be strict (which was the most difficult and heart-wrenching decision ever taken) and planned to keep only those snaps which are distinctly taken inside a room.
We DQ-d 75%.
We understand some of the snaps were taken indoors but those were not evident.
So, dear friends, thanks for your overwhelming response. Hope in future you all will show equal enthusiasm and take part.
All the very best!
Cheers!

1 upvote

Dear Saswata,

I am really disappointed that my entry was deleted from the challenge, can you please inform me about the reason specially that you have listed no rules when you announced this challenge.

Regards

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Dear friends,
'Flowers in my Room' has turned out to be the most difficult challenge to moderate.
We received complains for photographs taken out-door. We disqualified. Then we received complains on photographs which were difficult to find where actually had been taken... we disqualified. Then we started getting complains 'Why you DQ-d my snaps? Those were ACTUALLY taken indoor'.
In entirety, it has become very difficult to ascertain where exactly those snaps were taken.
So, we decided to be strict (which was the most difficult and heart-wrenching decision ever taken) and planned to keep only those snaps which are distinctly taken inside a room.
We DQ-d 75%.
We understand some of the snaps were taken indoors but those were not evident.
So, dear friends, thanks for your overwhelming response. Hope in future you all will show equal enthusiasm and take part.
All the very best!
Cheers!

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I have no problem with disqualifying my entry if there was some consistency with the rules. Seems like a bit of a joke and waste of time to me.

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Dear friends,
'Flowers in my Room' has turned out to be the most difficult challenge to moderate.
We received complains for photographs taken out-door. We disqualified. Then we received complains on photographs which were difficult to find where actually had been taken... we disqualified. Then we started getting complains 'Why you DQ-d my snaps? Those were ACTUALLY taken indoor'.
In entirety, it has become very difficult to ascertain where exactly those snaps were taken.
So, we decided to be strict (which was the most difficult and heart-wrenching decision ever taken) and planned to keep only those snaps which are distinctly taken inside a room.
We DQ-d 75%.
We understand some of the snaps were taken indoors but those were not evident.
So, dear friends, thanks for your overwhelming response. Hope in future you all will show equal enthusiasm and take part.
All the very best!
Cheers!

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I'm very disappointed that my tulips entry was disqualified AFTER submissions ended for having a black background. I have another version with the table lamp in the photo that I could have replaced it with.

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Dear friends,
'Flowers in my Room' has turned out to be the most difficult challenge to moderate.
We received complains for photographs taken out-door. We disqualified. Then we received complains on photographs which were difficult to find where actually had been taken... we disqualified. Then we started getting complains 'Why you DQ-d my snaps? Those were ACTUALLY taken indoor'.
In entirety, it has become very difficult to ascertain where exactly those snaps were taken.
So, we decided to be strict (which was the most difficult and heart-wrenching decision ever taken) and planned to keep only those snaps which are distinctly taken inside a room.
We DQ-d 75%.
We understand some of the snaps were taken indoors but those were not evident.
So, dear friends, thanks for your overwhelming response. Hope in future you all will show equal enthusiasm and take part.
All the very best!
Cheers!

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Dear folks,
It has been a very difficult situation for us.
To do justice to all the participants and to conform to the challenge theme we have disqualified about 75% of the entries.
Hope for the voters the task is now bit easier.
All the inconvenience caused are regretted.
Regards Admins

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Admin: Also disgualify the outdoor shots because they are definetely not "in their room"!

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Yes, never seen a lotus flower "inside a room" unless somebody is starting to grow them in their bath tub.

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Very bad and questionable judgement by the host. I do not want to say that he showed a frightening lack of capabilities not only judging pictures but he shows that is incapable to be consistent at least. Please, make rules well defined and stick to them. My picture as well was in my living room, was the room the deciding factor or the flower, or both. Please, explain.

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To the Host: I fully appreciate and respect your right to disqualify my photograph, but I can't help noticing many more, still in the running, that do not seem to have had the same criteria applied. I'm well and truly baffled!

p.s. My photograph was in my room, though the black background made that unclear. Some of the remaining pictures have a similar look, and some are clearly taken outside???

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Agree. Once of mine was DQ'ed also, which I'm completely OK with, except I still see at least 15 images left with the same violation - just the flowers with black background.

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HOST: Plenty of entries that show nothing but the flower and some leaves, yet they didn't get disqualified. Enforce your rules consistently, please!

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working on this.
thanks.

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I am in the same boat LOL. As far as I can see now there are at least ten more entries that should be disqualified based on "my room" criteria. Enforse your rules consistently towards ALL entries, please! Thank you!

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I agree with all the above complaints. The host is totally inconsistent with his rules :-(

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Mine was disqualified as well, even though my tulip was indeed in my room. The blurred background is my cream colored sofa. How does the host know it is NOT in my room?

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My "Backlit Epi" was disqualified. My flower was in a visible cut glass vase. Other images of flowers with a solid black background were allowed. Given the rather broad rules, this seems to be rather arbitrary judgement on the part of the host.

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This challenge is a mess. Why do contestants NOT read the description?

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"Where do you keep them inside your house ?"

Should the picture contain more details than just the "flower" itself? Because there are some entries which just contains a picture of a flower and some seems was shot outdoor.

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The 'My room' part is important.
Outdoor shots / only flower shots are being disqualified.

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"only flower shots are being disqualified"

Not as of this writing, apparently. I had to disqualifiy 42 entries in a 50 slot challenge. So fear not, my fellow host, DQ away!

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i'm in..!

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Does this mean cut flowers or growing plants?

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Both are equally accepted !
(a very pertinent question you have asked, thanks for that)

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any of the two will fit in. but that growing plant must have a flower that's it.

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