On 20th of May I took part in a cool contest. It is called Prague Photo Marathon. It is a kind of competition that is also held in other European cities. This was the second year of it in Prague.
The oficial website is here:
fotomaraton.cz/index.php?page=…It looks like this - They give you 12 themes and from this moment you have 6 hours to accomplish 12 photographs ( 1 photograph on each of the themes ) plus the themes must be worked up in the given order. After six hours ( or sooner ) you give over your results.
This years themes were as follows:
Optimism
Friendship
Joy
Passion
Consonance
Calm
Illusion
Love
Nostalgia
Hope
Conflict
Reconciliation
So baaad...
Yeah it wasn't easy and I was very surprised when I found myself having them all in 4,5 hours.. The jury didn't seem to like them, though, because I didn't get to the top 30..
Well, there were around 400 participants a lot of them proffesional photographers so I knew that my chances were very small... But I am still disappointed with it..
Even more after I've seen the winners' photos - when I realized that I could not say what theme their pictures were, you know, I just think that in some cases they simply pressed the button rather by accident and then hoped that there is at least a little of the theme in the picture. Yeah, this is very subjective, I know, or maybe I am not artistic enough to see it in there. I don't know.. But anyways, you can make your own opinion, the winners' pictures are on the website above and there is definitely a bunch of great photos.
The conclusion is: It was so fun and I really recommend to anybody who runs over an event like this
I will submit some of my pictures here.
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