Aiki, you did great, I was just making a point in case anyone got the wrong idea about how to judge. Didn't want things to go astray in the future!

George, you only turn on or off your own notifications.

If someone wants to follow the progress of one of your images, they can turn on their own notification for it, or turn it off again when they've seen enough.

Hope that clarifies the way it works.

Excellent, the first one for me, a really nice portrait.

I'm sure she did, not a problem.

IMHO I'd be careful about awarding a winner for any other reason than it's the best picture. Once we decide "it would be nice" if someone else won, then it becomes very subjective as to who is new enough, not new enough, hasn't won before, and so on.

This devalues the award. It's difficult enough to choose a winner, but it should always be a level playing field without favour to anyone.

I do a fair amount of judging and would never choose a picture because of who had taken it, but would always go for the best shot. If you've won, you should be secure in knowing that you produced the best image in the consideration of the judge.

It can be a slippery slope otherwise....

You don't or are you making a joke? The OP wants reliable advice, so we need to be sure he realises that the Samsung 12-24mm (same lens as the Pentax one) has been widely for sale because people found a very cheap source of supply.

It's no reflection on its quality, which is superb.

Hadn't thought that the need was as great there Martin, because we all automatically go and look, but what does everyone else think?

By the way, you can add notification to all your exisiting images if you wish - I've just run through mine.

In the Gallery it enables e-mail notification when someone comments on an image, just like on ePHOTOzine.

One of the disadvantages of the Gallery has been that we didn't know if someone had commented unless we continually checked every photo.

Following numerous requests, an Add Notification button has been added in the gallery.

You will find this on the page for an individual image and you can select and deselect the option for an individual image as you wish.

Many thanks to Richard for setting this up for us.