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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BSF" data-source="post: 1620591" data-attributes="member: 13098">Sialia,I think the pic-pickers have been requesting permission to use pictures for the competition.  However, I doubt the contributors would be as liberal with using them in a PDF for EN World.  I think you are spot on with that.  One of the reasons I need to clean up some of my stories is to break the reliance on the pictures.  In some cases, this might be easy, in others, it might be difficult, and in yet others, there might be a better way to incorporate the important element of the picture while getting rid of the exact elements of the picture.  Certainly some of the stories I have read have not really needed the pictures to work.  As you said, by the finishing rounds, the craft of storywriting has advanced beyond the art that it was written around.  I do have to wonder how effectively we could all put together personalized wacky pictures for the pic-pickers to choose from.  As an example, it would hardly seem fair to put one of your marvelous pics in a pairing that included you as an author.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  And, it seems like the people that would be most interested in contributing would also be some of the people most likely to compete.  Perhaps we could find a way to create a common archive we could blind-submit to that would include the submitter information.  Then, when a pic is chosen, it would come out of the archive and whoever pulled it could make sure it wasn't submitted by one of the two competitors?I don't know, that sounds kind of complicated.  But, if I was a programmer instead of Network/System Administrator, I would think about doing it.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As a complete aside, I think I can finally comment on one of the pictures you had in the last competition.  I might email you about it.  It took a while for me to really get over the emotional impact of that one.</blockquote>

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