How to win a photography competition

You will be surprised at the ease of winning a photographic competition. It is amazingly simple. What is required though is no sense of morality which I believe should be easily attainable since most of you will lose all that is left, after a couple of working years.

Now if you happen to travel to Budapest, there is a 200 meter bridge linking the old city (Pest) to the new city (Buda). In the middle of the bridge, there is an old man from Transylvanian whom I met. He proudly described the history of Transylvania which used to be a large player in Europe. Transylvania used to stretch over a large territory covering much of present day Hungary and Romania. He even showed me an map depicting ancient times to illustrate his point. It was quite a wonderful and surreal experience being perched up there with the blowing cold winter air.

This man happened to be a photographer and took pictures for many many years. One particularly breathtaking picture is from his homeland where he used 3 different filters to achieve the effect. Well, to win photography competitions, I recommend going to this man, buying a couple of pictures and submitting the photos to every photographic competition you will come across in the next 20 years.

On the other hand, if you find that crossing the globe to find a man on a bridge in Budapest too much of a hassle, you can just go online and download a couple of nice pictures to submit. Unlike plagarism, it is immersely difficult for judges to tell if the image is your or not since everything is digital now.

Furthermore, it is okay to submit the same pictures many times at different places since people do not really check and winnings photos are rarely republished. The only way to be caught is if the organisers have seen the image before and that is highly improbable provided you didn't obtain that particular image from the one of those photo hunt sites.

Imagine the glory, prizes and fame you will derive from this risk free strategy. I recommend going for the smaller competitions where the judges are less photo savvy before moving on to the big fish. I would do that myself, unfortunately my integrity after years of learning photography forbades me to do to.

The possibilities are endless. There are too many loopholes in society waiting to be exploited. I am sure you have ideas too. Share it with the world. Then again, just share it with me!