Now if this photograph had been shortlisted for an award, however modest that award, I might have understood.....
For a reason unknown to me, the photo of a decent likeness from the 2007 Carnival de Nice of Nicolas Sarkozy, then presidential contender rather than president, has attracted 150 clicks, or views, since I posted it at the Flickr photo-sharing site.
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And this image of Mount Everest, even though taken from a plane flying parallel to the Himalayas, seemed to me to have some merit (if only because it was extravagantly praised by Bill Taylor, an authority on photography).
And I rather like this picture, taken during my attempt to live the life of a student and ward off homelessness by camping on the bare floors of a colleague (who had not by then arrived in Abu Dhabi). It has also lured a few folk to Flickr.....
Dipping into Salut! archives for pictures I have also shared at Flickr, I could offer the tranquil scene from St Tropez or the aftermath of a murderous bombing at the courts in Varanasi.
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But what possessed the people who publish the Schmap Nice Guide - by which I assume they mean the city, not the nature of the guide - to offer to consider this for inclusion in a forthcoming edition? It is from another carnival - along the Riviera coast at Menton, also last year - and is probably one that ought to have struggled to make a shortlist for a family album......
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There is no prize, just the incentive of a "recognition and wide exposure" for photographers who are chosen.Well, I naturally do not see myself as a photographer at all. I need images to illustrate postings at this and
my other sites and sometimes that obliges me to resort to my own efforts. And I realise that my grainy oranges and lemons elephant from La Fête du Citron at Menton has as much chance as a snowball on an Abu Dhabi pavement in August.Or is there, in the flawed exposure and unremarkable subject choice, some hidden trace of an artist at work?
* Bill Taylor - see Comments - is right on both counts. The empty room does look good in black and white. And it is, in purely tribal terms, repugnant. But here it is anyway........
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