Smithsonian Rules Us Ineligible
A few weeks ago, our photograph of a boy playing basketball was chosen as a finalist in the Smithsonian photo contest and consequently quite a few of our loyal and faithful friends and readers pitched in to vote for our photo.
However, because we printed the photo in our Nov/Dec issue of South Dakota Magazine the Smithsonian editors have ruled that we are ineligible to win. We're very sorry to have put so many of you to so much work for naught, but still we appreciate the kindnesses and great effort.
And we'll keep printing our best photos in South Dakota Magazine before we share them with Smithsonian or anyone else.
However, because we printed the photo in our Nov/Dec issue of South Dakota Magazine the Smithsonian editors have ruled that we are ineligible to win. We're very sorry to have put so many of you to so much work for naught, but still we appreciate the kindnesses and great effort.
And we'll keep printing our best photos in South Dakota Magazine before we share them with Smithsonian or anyone else.
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Publishers of all kinds have some strange rules. The Argus pays to print columnists of doubtful wisdom even though they are in dozens of other papers, but refuses to print a letter to the editor that has even appeared on a temporary test blog. Struck me as rather strange logic, but it never pays to argue with those who buy ink by the ton and newsprint by the carload…or are subsidized by nearly unlimited tax dollars and filled with political appointees.
Comment by Douglas Wiken — June 30, 2008 @ 3:12 pm
Your subscribers would be a little peeved if you didn’t put your best photos in the South Dakota magazine first.
Comment by Anonymous — June 30, 2008 @ 4:52 pm
It was GREAT…..we need more “stuff” like this to unite us South Dakotan’s…..kids, and parents, and grandpas and grandmas…..we ALL voted….and some of us many times. Thanks. GP
Comment by gp — June 30, 2008 @ 5:25 pm
Right on gp and the South Dakotans you are talking about voted from many of the 50 states.
united we stand divided we fall.
Comment by Eddee — July 1, 2008 @ 7:28 am
ref photo contest. gimmee a break. as if none of the other entries hadn’t been “published”. they were in some obscure place on grandma bookcase found by one of the grandkids?? we got the most votes–we won–thats it.
Comment by mike hicks — July 1, 2008 @ 11:59 am
ha. as if none of the other entries had never been “published”. like they were found on the backshelf of grandmas bookcase by one of the grandkids. sounds kinda like clintons what is is. we got the most votes—we won. get over it.
Comment by mike hicks — July 1, 2008 @ 12:04 pm
sorry for two entries above. didn’t think the first one went through. but given the opportunity for the third time. we won–you didn’t.
Comment by mike hicks — July 1, 2008 @ 12:07 pm
I voted several times, I thought is was a wonderful photograph and I love reading the SD Magazine, and especially the editor’s notebook.
It deserved to be a finalist and definitely won my vote, all the way from Ipswich, Massachusettts. Keep up the good work, Sheila
Comment by Sheila Laing — July 1, 2008 @ 1:14 pm
Many times the journey is more important than the destination. And the journey that all of us went on to vote for that wonderful picture was indeed a great trip that united a lot of people not only in South Dakota but across the United States - and here in the Pacific Northwest!!
Comment by MaryH — July 1, 2008 @ 3:18 pm
Your picture was wonderful, and you gave us a run for the money. You taught my children a wonderful lesson, to play by the rules and to never give up.
Comment by Rhonda Weiderhaft — July 2, 2008 @ 9:04 am
Bernie, no matter what, you will always be a “winner” in my book.
Comment by Mary Jo Nemec — July 11, 2008 @ 10:45 am