P3D Competitions or Sharing?

["Andrea Blair" <asblair@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In response to Jet 7's objection to competitions:

A lot of people don't like competitions for various reasons, but still 
enjoy sharing images. Unfortunately, this is not done very often in 
clubs. I set up an additional meeting night at my old 2-D club and ran 
it as a Members Forum Night. It was an unstructured meeting with no club 
business, just the sharing of photography. We usually started with 
everyone seated and sharing images brought in. Then someone might have 
some equipment or technique to talk about. Then we would split up into 
smaller groups and have our own discussions or mini workshops. It was 
lot of fun. I am thinking of trying it in our stereo club as we only 
meet once a month now and there is not enough time to do everything in 
one night. This could even be expanded to "assignments," where a topic 
is set at one meeting and the results are brought back at another. 
Instead of a competition environment, the assignments could be reviewed 
and commented on by everyone. I found this type of casual environment 
was very condusive to open discussion, especially from people who felt 
uncomfortable in a competitive environment. I got to see more of what 
members were doing and find out what they were interested in. This was 
very rewarding to me.

Andrea Blair
asblair@xxxxxxxxxxx

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