[Leica] Ted, thank you I'M HERE! I'M HERE! :-)

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Larry offered as others did & said:
Subject: [Leica] Ted, thank you


> Ted,
> I want to thank you for your stint as Assignment Editor. But I fully 
> understand your comments that it is a thankless task. So few submissions 
> but each needing an evaluation and a comment. The sad fact is that most of 
> us have reached the age where we photograph whatever strikes our fancy, 
> not what someone else tells us to do. Even those Luggers who make a living 
> taking pictures submit only their personal favorites to the gallery.<<<

Hi  Larry and Crew,
No it is I who must say thank you to all who submitted! Simply because what 
you folks did? Was give me a reason each photo day to get on with the day 
and with a reason to keep going! No easy task some days. :-(

One makes improvements, physically and mentally. You seem to be coming along 
nicely and on a kind of timeline schedule of recovery from the past 18 
months that is on track. Then you slip back into an abyss that some days you 
ask, "What the hell am I doing here?"

Because I had received one on one requests for advice on photos and 
Douglas's suggestion, I thought maybe this would be helpful for some in the 
crew?  As well for myself? ERGO: assigned suggestions? And when some began 
to arrive it gave me a lift and a challenge to once again be some what 
helpful?

Actually I thought one day "this might become a tad over powering as I'm not 
a fast typer in answering. :-) However, I did think I was coping? 
Unfortunately only to discover I began to miss some entries. Gotta develop a 
fixed answering system. :-)

Comment only on one? I feel a comment that would/could be helpful should be 
made on each, quite often it's some simple item that makes or breaks a shot.

I also realize many of the crew have no desire to "do an  assigned photo!" 
Only because now the photography becomes a burden, rather than "a nice 
emotional gift of fun when I feel like it!" :-) I surely did not figure 
there would be hundreds....... almost can't cope already with those who seem 
to be regulars within a few weeks?

In any event, if the crew are OK with this continuing? As best as I can?  I 
would like to have it continue until I can't cope with answering. Or it 
becomes a useless babble on my part.:-(

But you folks quite honestly do give me a great lift having something to do 
and playing photo editor. And maybe the nightmares will eventually go 
away???????????

cheers,
Dr. ted :-)
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> I must admit that I felt a bit guilty about not fully accepting the idea 
> of each new assignment. Somewhere in my archives I had a picture that 
> would meet the requirements. Sometimes barely. Why try to take another 
> just to prove that I could.
> That may well have been the case for most of us.
>
>
> Still, I would like to thank you for your efforts. As a group we probably 
> don't deserve mentoring by a photographer of your caliber. As for me, I 
> just push the button, snapping whatever I find pleasing in the viewfinder. 
> Thinking is for working photographers. I just do it for the fun.?
>
> Thank you, thank you, thank you.
>  Larry Z (an adventitious photographer)