Know your juror

I had thought about entering a juried competition in February, but I just visited the website of the juror: http://www.garyfaigin.com/gallery/paintings.html

Now, what chance would I have, with my landscape work, to even hope to get an award from someone who favors that style?

Can a juror get past their own style when judging a competition?

I would assume they could, in a recent thread I just said that Imogen Cunningham was a favourite photographer of mine but that I don't photograph any of the same subjects she did.  She favored flowers and nude models.  However, I can recognize her work as stunning, I love her use of light and all of her stuff has a fluidity to it that I can't explain.  It takes my breath away, and yet, my style is completely different.
Here on this forum we all have different styles yet we recognize good work and celebrate it.

Enter the competition, you won't know if you don't try!
Good Luck!

Go for it Marian. Look at his drawings, I think he will see the personality in your work that we all love. He seems from his drawings to be talented and imaginative.

...depends...

Marian, seriously.  Jurors are supposed to be able to be open minded.  But we all know it's art and it's subjective.  There may actually be a bigger difference in your results based on what type of work is entered.  If you are the only one entering landscapes, you honestly may not do well.  However, if there are a lot to choose from, then there is somewhat of a benchmark established to judge yours by, then you only have to be better than your competition.

Whenever I was entering fine art juried exhibitions/contests, I tried to stick with ones that had a theme that matched my work, or at least was similar.  If you are entering a contest that is likely to bring in other artists similar to this judge's style, you may be disappointed.  That being said, if you are open enough with whatever you get, then there may be a lot to learn from it regardless of how you place.  It can still be a good thing, but put on your thick skin regardless.

A couple other notes:  I just entered a statewide print competition in which I did fair.  I was asked by a few of my friends why I didn't ask more questions of the judges about my work after the judging.  My response was that I could tell by watching the judging what they did and didn't like and I already felt like I had a good idea why my prints scored how they did.  I did, however, get some time with 4 Master Photographers that were at the exhibit and each of them gave me some detailed insight and critique on each of my images.  I still learned a lot, and out of the 4, I am going to enter 2 of them at the regional level as they are even though they didn't do well at the state level.  The other two I have decided probably aren't 'merit' quality prints, so I will work to replace them with some better images by February.

The other thing I'd like to mention is that there are occasions when you may not want critique.  For example, a family member portrait.  Another may be your absolute favorite image in you've ever taken.  Some things you don't need to offer up for someone to tell you what's wrong with it.  Some images are so personal that no one should be given the right to tell you otherwise, I think.  That's not to say you shouldn't keep getting cirtique on your best work and striving to be better, but some things just are yours, and that's how they should be.  I would caution everyone about asking for critique on this type of personal photographs.

Travis