Quote (onepagememory @ Feb 10 2011 12:31pm)
SOMEONE WILL SHOOT A CAT or another animal, claiming it's a portrait of them in a pathetic attempt to personify and humanize this inferior creature!!! 99% chance. They'll even add "This is Bob, my fat, Garfield-look-a-like, cute-for-two-minutes-then-horribly-monotonous friend"
Either that, or a Jesus-look-a-like tortilla chip or cracker.
But you have classical buildings that cannot be compared in prettyness and exotic-ness to what's available elsewhere. It would turn into a 'zomg what a pretty photo of X famous building!' type of contest, even if the photo is crooked, has horrible exposure (with a white sky), and has uninteresting composition.
Then it does not enter the contest ... simple theme simple rules?
Quote (RoOkieTeRra @ Feb 10 2011 01:21pm)
problem with such themes is that some places have nice architecture / culture and some places dont, or at least not as impressive as others. I find the architecture and culture in my region rather boring for instance.
I don't have much "exciting" things here where I live either, it's rather boring... but Id' still go out and try to get a photo of it, that I would be inspired to take a photo of, try to find something interesting along the way. To one person it may be boring, but to another it might be very interesting. But I guess it's hard to shoot boring photos
