BWarren89

As an artist and professional photographer, I find it rather bold to claim that you know enough about the reasons someone would enter this contest; to the point that you recommend nobody submit photographs. Many, many people enter competitions like this for the exposure, the claim to fame, because they are fans of Apple etc. This hold especially true in the age of Instagram, where people submit art and photography to a platform that survives based on those submissions, with the hopes of being "featured" by Instagram, with no expectation of compensation in return. I see this competition as no different than that; especially given that not all photographers are interested in compensation in the first place. A last point, if you recall when Apple first launched the "Shot on iPhone" campaign, they surprised contributors that were selected with a very high quality linen bound archival photo book complete with every selected submission, along with white gloves. It was a truly unexpected and very classy move. I think this article just makes far too many assumptions about the motivations of people who would participate.