042 City Cam: Session 3 Analysis A

Session 3 theme:
Take a picture that signifies "New Birth, New Life" and submit it with a short essay (not more than 200 words) that explains how your picture describes the theme.

Session 3 rules:
1. Picture must be submitted by sunday 15th of December, 2013 (we had an extension to 16th december, so the pictures that came in then, still count)
2. Picture must be original and taken by the contestant within the time frame of the competition (10 days)
3. The picture should be of non-human elements.
4. The essay must not be more than 200 words.
5. The picture must be meaningful to the essay and theme.
6. The analysis and judgement of TobeDadiva is final.
7. Winners Must be available in Enugu between the 20th of December and 30th of december 2013.
Here are the entries and analysis

C1:      I love the write up…deep and meaningful. But somehow, it doesn’t seem to fully capture the picture. I think the picture depicts new life, in that, the man has got a new man inside him...kinna like the discovery of self. Oh well, deep words, deep picture but there is a bit of a disconnect.

C2: He wrote about flowers in a rather shallow way and the flowers in the picture would probably

do more in depicting “old but alive” than “new life, new birth”

C3:      Same guy from C2…already multiple entry means disqualification. For the record though, if he had written a nice essay with this picture, it would have stood a better chance than C2 (something about morning dew drop that usher in the birth of a new day, making everything pretty and giving those who see it, a fresh look at a new life.)

C4:          Same guy from C2 and C3. I won’t bother about analyzing this.

C5:       I can relate to birthdays being seen as a chance at new life but the arrangement of the words in this essay lack depth. Also, let’s be honest, would you give the ‘leaves’ in the picture as a birthday bouquet?

C6:       So this guy would probably make a living writing short stories for children …”The Eagle and the sunrise”. The picture is beautiful and would have stood a chance with a meaningful esay and not a story (which I can’t say is original or not)

C7:      Well, this dude thought it would be pretty to have a use a totally different theme from the one given. Oh well, If we ever have a walnut theme on 042 city cam, I am sure his picture and write up would be relevant then

C8:      The picture, in my opinion, oozes life. But the write up totally murdered it…in grammar, in depth and in meaningfulness

C9:      The write up is so deep and full of inspiration…’be the solution like the break of dawn’. The picture feels like this lady woke up in the morning, felt inspire, took a picture of the new morning through her window and wrote this piece to go with it. 

C10:     Shey we can all see that the picture is farrrrrrrr from original (I honestly don’t understand why keeping to the rules is so hard). I won’t bother with an analysis.

C11:    And this would be a nice essay to wow an Agric teacher in secondary school. Moringa tree??? Seriously??

C12:    Lone stem in the earth; the picture speaks more of loneliness to me, than of new life. Then the write up seems more sad than celebratory.

C13:    A BOLD rule was that the entries should NOT be of a human subject. I have nothing more to say

C14:    I like this picture….but it does not speak to me of New life. This croc may be young but he/she is far from ‘new’. The write up makes an attempt to be deep but unfortunately, it doesn’t quite get it.