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Originally Posted by susan alicia
but then you might as well leave the cute kids out of the competion?  |
That, largely, is what we've been trying to do, and partly why we started the unofficial polls which give scope for candid photos and other baby and toddler pics. The first year of the poll, where we didn't have these restrictions, it was just cute baby after cute baby after cute toddler after loving looks after silly mugging for the camera, to the point where you wouldn't have had a clue that this was supposed to be a forum about royalty. And when the photo of the year - the ROYAL photo of the year, mind you - ended up being a picture of a toddler smeared with birthday cake, we decided it was time to do something about it.
This is why cute kids are only in the official photos when they're part of an official event and the photo shows the actual event and not just the cute kids. Same for photos of loving couples - as long as they're part of an official event and it isn't just an "awwww, innit cute" moment. So as far as I'm concerned, I'd be perfectly happy to do away with pictures of cute kids from the official photos. It's really depressing when a photo, for example, of the Queen in full Garter rig gets two votes because there's another photo of Princess Whosit chewing on her stuffed bunny on her second birthday and it gets 50 votes because "awwww, innit cute." TRF isn't about "awwww, innit cute," it's about royalty.