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Vote: Doors Open Toronto 2012 photo contest
While the 2012 edition of Doors Open Toronto might be fading into memory, there's nothing like bringing it back to life like a photo contest. Today we're kicking off voting for the People's Choice award for the official Doors Open Toronto Photography Contest. A panel of judges from the City of Toronto, the Toronto Star, the Toronto Society of Architects and Panasonic have sorted through 957 entries to arrive at these ten finalists presented below.
The top vote getter will receive a Panasonic LUMIX DMC-GF3X camera and their photo will be printed in the Toronto Star. Voting starts now and is open until 11:59PM on Sunday June 24th, 2012. Place your vote by selecting the photographer's name and photo location on the poll at the bottom of this post.
#1 Rahim Rajani -Fire Station 227 (TOP PHOTO)
#2 Sandra C. Hawkins -Black Creek Pioneer Village
#3 Tanya Witzel - Fort York
#4 Bradley Weiss - Artscape Wychwood Barns
#5 Rudra Chauhan - St. James Cathedral
#6 Scott Snider- City Hall Observation Deck
#7 Jackman Chiu - Campbell House Museum
#8 Andrew Tay - St. James Cathredal Centre
#9 Linden Laserna - Doris McCarthy Fool's Paradise
#10 Phil Marion -Molson Amphitheatre
Please place your vote in the poll below.
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Of course they don't know anything about photography do they Steven? What are your qualifications?
I studied both the historical and practical sides of photography for 5+ years.
I teach photography, graphics and digital photography and manipulation.
Telling me judges came from the city and the star hardly supports your argument... a BIG LOL on that note.
Anything else you NITwit?
Sad.
As YOU pointed out there were other bodies that selected the finalists...perhaps my criticism was directed at them?! Did I even name the photographers? No. You sir/madame are the troll. The only thing I have done in a disparaging tone is call you that which you are. I added to the context of the web and this posting by suggesting in my opinion very few of the photos were contest worthy. Thereby (if read) asking the viewers to examine them for what they are.
I guess you like mediocrity? The banal? The laundered and deliberate images we see day in a day out on FB, twitter, flckr and in our newspapers (not that much better than what the general public can offer most of the time) and the like?
Tell me, when you examine these photos you do not see how commonplace they are. Even "Alan" has agreed with my sentiments...but you'll notice "Alan" and myself did not specifically name one photograph -so as not to do specific harm. I'm sure there is a "Bob" or "Ahmed" or "Latisha" that would disagree with me, totally fine! They're allowed their opinions, as am I. You obviously think they're all stellar works of art that should hang in a gallery.
Criticism is the backbone of how we improve in any field or discipline and these photo entries were put up for a contest, a battle if you will, a criticism from "judges" that named 10 out of many entries, perhaps they got bored? Or seeing that one photo has stood out among the rest opted to put other less obvious choices so as to confuse the viewer and assure the winner they wanted was the one that will be selected by the public, a seemingly democratic vote (sadly having sat on such a jury -this type of angle often tried out).
If they were all so good, their wouldn't be such a lead by a single image!
So, I added my 2 cents. That is all.
#9 is quite stunning - saturated colour, the choice to invert, an example of the rule of thirds is displayed
..and this is where it gets dodgy as opinions would widely vary as there could be a multitude of reasons, but #7 for its composition, the wispy figures and the static running shoes are contradicting one another and not in a classic juxtaposed way.
Just my opinion, by looking at the votes, there is a varied opinion.
The judges came from Panasonic (Their staff rep is a photographer), The photo journalist pool at the star, one city staff member and the last one is a local architect.
Cheers,
Still...it's nice to see that Linden's picture will probably win People's Choice. It caught my eye from the beginning. Very lovely.
Furthermore, your comment is not constructive. It does NOT make his opinion any less valid.
I "troll" many local publications, online and offline.
My life is exciting, thanks for taking note! I've thoroughly enjoyed this exchange with many detractors. What's quite funny is, I don't think one of them commented and defended the high caliber of photos selected, they've simply bashed my comments to the contrary. You being one of them Chris. I've used these exchanges in class today!
Thanks for the feedback, it's great to show students that there will always be the likes of George W.'s out there but to continue on anyhow.
:-)
Freedom of speech and opinion is great. Helps us all to see things from different points of views! Comments were just as interesting as the pictures.
clearly has Linden has an eye for creativity and can take something simple and have a full imagination for it.
Only good artists with great imaginations can see what we don't.
Abybody knows a link to see the winners in all categories?
I'd appreciate it
it ;) I may come back yet again since I saved
as a favorite it. Money and freedom is the greatest way to change,
may you be rich and continue to help other people.