Can't disagree with the need to reduce numbers of pics of common species &c - seems a necessary idea although I do see the problems for a newbee who has only got one decent picture which is of a common species!
I don't look at the bird galleries much but have noticed the large numbers of 7-spot ladybird pictures in the insect gallery so can imagine the problems with birds. However, one plea and one suggestion.
There are different, subjective ways of judging photos. I've said this before and am not being contentious
but some of us look at photos as 'good' pictures from an aesthetic point of view (are they well composed, balanced &c) while others look at them as plants/animals for identification, analysis, behaviour (whatever) in a photograph. It's not impossible to combine both, of course, and these should be the preferred pictures for the gallery. However, I would be unhappy to lose pictures which showed good recognition features because the composition or whatever is 'bad'. I don't think this is going to apply to robins or 7-spot ladybirds
A suggestion, since what makes a 'good' picture is undoubtedly very subjective, why not bring an element of audience participation into the cull? Pick the best six and have a poll for retention or culling? That way you take some stress off the gallery editors and make the decision more 'democratic'. It might also be interesting to see how views on what is a 'good' picture, or not, varied ....
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Originally Posted by Jon  ........ will make me personally reflect carefully on quality and subject before submission. I know it is sometimes difficult not to submit shots of robins for example, I have submitted quite a few myself but unless I can submit something a little different to the regular portrait shot then there is little point - as you have indicated if you have portrait shots of a robins and a good ones at that then just how many do you need?
Jon |