The Sakia Contest : Further analysis on Monday

Yesterday the 17 of January , i went to cover/ enjoy this photography contest at the Sawy Culture Wheel , and heres what i came up with .

To start off i would like to apologise for not doing the full post today . I wont be able to post the artist reviews and their works , and pics of the contest until Monday. I woke up this morning to find the cam ( with the pics of the event ) gone , apparently a family member went to a trip till Monday , and decided it would be a good idea to take the cam along . So yea the full reviews will be on Monday, God willing .

Right now though id like to just point to a few things that could be mentioned quickly about the event .

Lets start with the positive aspects :

1) I loved the standard of works submitted , and i have to say its gonna be a pretty stiff competition.

2) The mood in the place yesterday , a good presence and it certainly turned out to be more crowded than i thought , a LOT of people were there yesterday , artists and viewers .

3) A lot of begginers contributing and being positive and not afraid of all the "oldies" that were around competing for sometime in this event .

4) Oh , and i met a lot of photographer friends i was really looking forward to meet , and they turned out to be great dudes ( thats not very technical i know hehe ) .

Ok now for the things i didnt like :

1) I did my best to find out who the judges are ( even asked previous contestants ) , NO ONE KNEW ! .... Needless to say the " judging criteria " , were by no means available to anybody .

2) The way the works were layed out and presented was not "cool" to say the least . I know there were a lot of works , but im pretty sure there couldave been better ways to present them .

3) Some works were placed in dark corners with no appropriate lighting , and even the ones placed in the light i couldnt really say the placement of the light was adequate . Wrong angles , and glare on some photos .

4) The names of the works werent available ( and that took A WHOLE LOT out of the value of the pics ) .
Also the names of the artists werent beside the shots , and thats unfair by my standards . Say im a first time visitor to the place and i see a pic i love , the first thing i ask is WHO took this . Besides its unfair for the artist who payed a good fee to enter the contest that the people dont even get to know HIS/HER name .

But all in all i have to say it was a great day , and a relatively good event ( that will really be determined by the winner shots i guess hehe ) . Sorry for all those who missed it , and hoping to be one of the competitors next year God willing .

Remember the " artist reviews" on Monday . Oh and the competition results will be announced on the 20th of January .