Due to a sequence of not-necessarily-related events including a train robbery, a roadside inn gunfight, a distressing damsel and an alien abduction there has been a slight delay in moving the PaGaLGuY B-school Photography Contest 2011 forward.
Now that the reasons behind the delay have been explained in exceptional detail and the blame suitably put on the deserving persons, let us move closer (but not quite there yet) to declaring the winners.
It is written on all your faces that you are eager to know who the winners of the contest are and I would be lying if I said that I wasn’t deriving sadistic pleasure out of it. And I am going to extend the callousness and hold the envelopes containing the winners’ names back for a couple of days more. Because before you can start congratulating the winners, I would like you to see all the entries at one place in the albums linked below and leave comments to let the world know which ones you found yourself admiring the most and why.
All the entries of the PaGaLGuY B-school Photography Contest 2011
Rarely Asked Questions about the contest Needlessly Answered
– Total number of entries: 104.
– B-schools that sent the most number of entries,
Indian Institute of Forest Management – Bhopal
Great Lakes Institute of Management – Chennai
The ITM b-schools at Chennai, Warangal.
– This year, we even received emails and tweets from b-school professors asking whether they could participate!
– Contestants found the ‘The photos should contain at least one person’ criteria the most challenging. So much so, that several contestants sent us beautiful pictures of the architecture and sunsets in their campus but without people in them. Overall, most contestants did make the effort of shooting pictures with people in them.
– Many even went to the lengths of shooting well-planned photographs and enlisting people to model for the pictures. The mega-model award however undisputedly goes to him.
– B-schools located in beautiful hilly environs such as those of Shillong did not send in a single entry. Somebody please confiscate (‘confesticate’ as per my math schoolteacher) the batch’s cameras.
– Forest management begins with peaceful existence around slithery creatures (Do not try this at home).
– Contestants with first names starting with the letter ‘A’ continued to beat those with the letter ‘S’ and ‘V’ by a margin of multiples.
So go ahead, comment on the photo entries and make the contestants feel appreciated! Results by Tuesday.