“A picture is worth a thousand words” – the photo journey through India was presented in
Cinematics 2014 photography competition held during February 7 & 8, 2014. This year the theme 'A journey through India - Rail, Road and River' attracted 100+ entries from all over India. The special introduction to this year
Cinematics is the use of Social Media for publicity and evaluation. The entries were made available in the Institute Facebook page (
http://www.facebook.com/sdmimd) and the likes and the comments are considered for final evaluation using Web Analysis tools. Sixty entries were shortlisted and displayed in an exhibition on the
7th of February. The event was adjudicated by a panel of three judges. The judges were: Mr.
Murli, eminent photographer with The Hindu and
Deccan Herald; Mr.
Babu, reputed photographer from Mysore and Mr. Ravi, a photojournalist from Mysore. The jury both from the Social Media and the panel of Judges declared Mr.
Sagar Koshthi as first, Mr.
Bharathkumar Hegde the second and third was secured by Mr.
Soumyadeep Mukherjee.