I am entering a contest. I am going to enter two pictures. One I've already chosen and the other one I can't decide upon.
The contest is at the ArtBarn in Valparaiso, which I became aware of when a group of us tried to get something similar started here in Northern Indiana. We failed, but the ArtBarn flourishes.
As usual with these things, judges are brought in to "jury" the artwork into the show. Judges are people who "know art". Usually they have art degrees. They look for things that I don't. They see things I don't. And their tastes are unknown. And that last point matters.
The first contest I ever entered I won an award. Was the photograph good? Maybe. More likely it just struck some chord in the judge who liked the color of the old, dented door of a blue truck that had the phone number of a coal company written thereupon. I heard him discuss the color with some other person, neither of them knowing who I was (and still am).
Another time, there was a photograph that took first place in a contest I entered once. It was in a poster framed like you would buy at Walmart. The subject was two guys holding hands, both in t-shirts. It was a snap shot. No posing. No thought about lighting. But it spoke to the judge(s).
...you never know.
So can you help me decide which picture to use in this contest?
The pictures can't be "old". No "oldies but goodies".
Below (and one picture above) is what I have it narrowed down to.
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