Re: AIS:Judge Types Over the Years
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- Subject: Re: AIS:Judge Types Over the Years
- From: n*@charter.net
- Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 01:59:52 -0000
--- In iris-talk@y..., Arnold Koekkoek <koekkoek@m...> wrote:
..."other than judges' training sessions at regional conventions, I
have never seen any official judging being done in gardens."
Arnold, you may very well have seen the judging and not recognized it
for what it was. Judges don't normally work in panels. They visit
gardens, often alone--and spend a lot of time and energy in their own
iris patch, growing and watching new and recent introductions
throughout the year. They take notes, pictures, remember a lot, and
sometimes compare notes with other judges. But the ballot is filled
out at the desk--or the kitchen table--and mailed in after a long and
very energetic season of "judging." If you ever saw someone who was
a working judge doing their job they would look just like any other
serious visitor in the garden. The judging task isn't very visible.
In the geographically large regions--not all of them in the west!--a
judge puts on a lot of miles in the car, burns a lot of gas and time,
out of his or her own pocket, just to see the irises, not so much
working a check list of points, but looking for "character" and verve
in something new. Or was the new just, ho-hum, more of the same? A
judge also not looking for just what he or she likes, the judge is on
the look out for something that resonates with "worth" or quality
that can be recommended to others. These aren't things you or I can
see happening. But they happen.
Neil Mogensen been there, done that
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