Raising the Bar - you probably know what that saying means ! Art, well art is in the eye of the beholder they say, so it is probably relative. But since I rule over two galleries now and one of them has technical requirements , I will raise the bar for both of them anyway. This goes not only for art work that I will tolerate in those galleries but especially for future DDs.

It was brought to my attention that I have been a GD for 6 months now and after reviewing the past 6 months and the stuff I have done, including the DD features, I have come to the conclusion that I really need to change a few things. Don't worry , it won't hurt.

Most of you know that I have been the Gallery Director for Macro Photography quiet a few months now and that I have preached up and down the latter about what Macro means. If you feel like calling me an %$@*^$#% who excludes people from that gallery because they do not have popper equipment, fine do what you need to do, but don't expect anything nice in return from me. Also read before you ask, otherwise you are waisting not only my time but the time of those who want help and want to learn. I have taken on this position to serve the small macro community on deviantART and I will hold up and raise the standards now. Just because there is a macro gallery does not mean that everyone can freely submit there and if I move something out of that gallery then simply for the fact to make the macro community happy and not to discriminate anyone. We have plenty of galleries where the images that get wrongly submitted in macro, belong better, so think twice before you dump your images in masses where they do not belong ! And yes even a GD does make mistakes and accidentally moves something that should not be moved , but to tell you the truth 1 out of 1000 images I do move might be an accident.

Conceptual is a different story and I can not nail rules down as tight as I can with macro . Read teh next paragraph and maybe you get a feel for what raising the bar is all about !

Submissions to Galleries & Daily Deviations :

All resources on what is and what is not macro along with some info about Conceptual ( more to come) and answeres to many other questions , can be found here :

LINKS to RESOURCES & FAQs

As you now there is only one rule about DDs : If the deviant had a DD in the past 3 months he cannot have a DD - Amen !

Macro Photography DDs : For the future I will pay close attention to size , detail and technique. I will not tolerate any manipulated or images that have texture added in macro neither will I feature those. Macro is a pure form of photography and not fancy art form. Macro focuses ( as preached so many times ) on detail of tiny things. So if you send me suggestions make sure that you also pay attention to this.

Conceptual Photography : is a subject we could probably discuss for hours , so to keep it short , if you send me a suggestion for Conceptual make sure there is a concept in that picture. If I cannot see a concept and / or the description doesn't kick my fantasy to dream one up , then there just is no concept. And therefore you have just submitted me a miscat.

No matter what if you send DD suggestion, please title your note with either DD Suggestion Macro or DD suggestion Conceptual , one suggestion per note please , link or thumb or both , whatever you feel like. And if you can please include why you feel the picture deserves a DD. I will no longer answer any DD suggestion notes, nor will I justify myself why I did not choose one and do me the favor don't be so lame and use your alternate account to send me your own suggestion , just suggest yourself if you have to.

Keep the journal title in mind though, because time has come to raise the bar , we are not myspace and we are not flickr, photobucket and what not, we are deviantART !

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