s j.

Not overly impressed with the service as some of the winners of the contests are not by any means the best within the community and or the contests. They seem to do very very little as far as running the site. They have two categories for there contests those who payed and those who did not. They do have a points system with unlocking badges but thats all they do is unlock they're useless trinkets. The biggest problem with the site as i see it. Is anyone who puts up the money can enter even the worst of quality or even no where near what the contest was about. So in order to vote for a favorite you have to go through thousands of pics by those not serious about photography what so ever. If the useless badges unlocked contests and then allowed you to the next level people might actualy talk and ask more about the pics and how they were done or want to grow as photographers. In todays age of cameras you certainly dont need to spend 10's of thousands to get a good shot. But to have all levels competing depending on the almighty buck is frustrating and very time consuming. Even when the voting is open or the second round theres still a ton of crap to sift through.