[Leica] Ted & Assignments in LWC

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Ted, you certainly have a busy schedule for a man who blithly gave us the 
choice of TWO assignments for this week, and who HASN'T limited the number 
of photos that anybody can submit on the topics. Best of luck with the 
weddings.

Personally, I have NO objection to you picking just one winner and 
commenting as to why you think it is the winner in your eyes. I don't think 
it is necessary to comment on every picture submitted. The LUG should be 
DAMNED happy to have a great photographer with your considerable skills and 
vast experience judging the entries submitted, and equally be very happy 
with your choice of winner. It's a personal choice for you and LUG should 
just accept it. If people are unhappy, they can choose not to enter.

I consider that entries should be limited to one photo per LUG member, no 
comments submitted until the result is announced, and no criticism of the 
judge's choice be entertained. This might make it simpler to manage!!!

If you are loath to make rules, I might suggest to the rest of the LUG that 
they only submit one photo per topic, rather than blizzard a raft of similar 
efforts at the hapless judge. At our age, all of us are surely capable of 
choosing our own best picture on each topic. Bear in mind, the sheer volume 
of both emails and pictures on the LUG sometimes makes it very difficult to 
look at everybody's photos, and cranking up the volume even further should 
be discouraged.

These are my personal opinions and I'm equally sure that all of you have 
your own!!

Other opinions, anybody????

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <tedgrant at shaw.ca>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMGS: Wedding Photos


> Tina Manley OFFERED:
> Subject: [Leica] IMGS: Wedding Photos
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>> My son and his bride got married in Gibraltar in March, after hiking the
>> Camino de Santiago.  They got remarried yesterday in Charleston for all 
>> of
>> their friends and family who couldn't make it to Gibraltar.
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>> http://www.pbase.com/image/151792382
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>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/151792383
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>> It was a beautiful wedding!  I only took about 1000 photos ;-)
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> Hi Tina,
> Well I'll be the wedding photographer next Saturday as two of my 
> grandson's Kyle -Victoria and Kyle-Ottawa get married on the same day! :-(
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> However, it was originally planned to be on separate Saturdays. One today 
> and one next Saturday.  I mean when you have two grandson's the same name 
> it's bad enough when you are talking about them or about them you have to 
> designate which one all the time. Let alone their about to be wive's mix 
> the wedding day dates, both happening on the same day!! :-(
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> The families bad enough with 2-Ted's, 2- Scotts, 2- Kate's thoughout the 
> collection. But  when they screw-up the wedding  dates makng it 
> immpossible to get to both you take the nearest, save a big pile of money 
> in airfares and let the Kyle in Ottawa with bride fly here for a bit of a 
> Honeymoon with the "old lad. Then with his cousin Kyle and is bride they 
> will both share the honeymoons together !  Me?  I'll be editing my 
> thousand frames???? :-)
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> The scary thing is, they were two little boys not so long ago who sat on 
> my knee and watched grandpa show slides from the last assignment from 
> wherever in the world! :-) BOY DOES TIME EVER FLY!
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> Any tips for the old lad as I haven't shot a wedding in nearly 50 years 
> and I always hated every minute even though I was extremely well paid for 
> doing them. :-(
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> May have some happy snaps to show after next Saturday. 
> mmmmmaaayybbbbeeee???????????? ;-)
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> cheers,
> ted
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> No poblem G'Pa could've flown to Ottawa and been back here for the week 
> laer. Well it started out like that
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