ColorPro monitors are produced by ViewSonic and they have colour palettes that are superior. Being able to produce accurate colours is a big challenge. I have an external colour monitor/corrector that I place on the MAC screen and it brings the monitor colours into alignment with technical specifications.
I happened to see a headline about the ColorPro awards hosted by ViewSonic. They got my attention because the headline had the words "headless", "goat" and "polo". The black and white picture had hundreds of men on horses in a skirmish.
What are all these people doing playing polo with a headless goat body? Gruesome, to say the least for the winning photo in the ColorPro Awards 2021. The headline says "mesmerizing photographs." I suggest that photo is mesmerizing in a creepy way - aren't we looking for the dead goat in the picture of hundreds of people in action around wherever it is in the photo. Aren't we wondering where could this photo have come from? Certainly not from Kansas, Dorothy.
I am sure this publicity event got a lot of attention for ColorPro monitor - one of ViewSonic's visual display hardware products. They include liquid-crystal displays, projectors, and interactive whiteboards—as well as digital whiteboarding software.
So the photo competition displays all the pictures on screens with no paper-based photos as we would normally expect. There were 32 monitors displaying the winning photos.
And headless goat polo? It is called Buzkashi (literally goat pulling). It is a Central Asian sport where horse-mounted players attempt to place a goat or calf carcass in a goal. It began among the nomadic Asian tribes. Wikipedia has all the information you could want.
It makes for colourful and action-packed pictures for sports and adventure photographers. The pictures are compelling to us in the first world - they look like they were taken a thousand years ago.
One day we're playing soccer in a bouncy bubble, and the next we're looking at a flying headless goat scoring a goal somewhere. It is no wonder our social order is no longer orderly.
I guess with the winning picture - Dead Goat Polo by Alain Schroeder we are supposed to admire the beauty of the black, white and mid point grey. That's followed by second place by Bay Yan Lin whose photo Colors of Life show an overhead shot of a red deck of a ship being scrubbed beside a picture of the roiling waves of the Atlantic.
Here's an image of the Wisteria bush around the corner on my street from last year.
