I spent a great afternoon on Thursday, hanging out with some of my favorite photographers at the Skills Manitoba Photography Competition. This competition is like the Olympics for high school students, who are given assignments and compete in contests relevant to their studies. My photog buddies and I were Judges for the Photography Competition.
The students were given 2 shooting assignments in the morning and they had a few hours to get their shots and process them before submitting them to the Jury Chair who prepared then for the Viewing and Judging.
The students made some amazingly creative images! I was blown away by some of them! As a Judge part of the job is to comment on the images to let the maker know the good points of the image, but also how it could be improved. Since I’ve often been on the other side of the Judging Process (being judges) I know how stressful and sometimes painful it can be. You put your heart and soul into your work and it gets panned and that can be a very ego defeating situation. As the Judges we all had to remember that we were judging the work of high school students, no pros. So it was a fine line between solid constructive feedback, and praise for participating, trying and opening themselves up for criticism, that we had to take. For a kid in grade 11, this kind of participation takes a lot of guts!
So my hat’s off to all the students who participated and a big thanks to Mr. G at TecVoc for allowing me the priviledge of being on the Jury. I am looking forward to doing it again next year 
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