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Subject: [Leica] Re: ITS DONE!!! and Exhibit plans: off to Berlin
From: firkin at balhpl01.ncable.net.au (firkin)
Date: Mon Jan 24 19:38:10 2005
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OK, let the introductions begin. I'll get back to you again when I get home 
this evening or so. Any contacts are good contacts ;-) 

Seth Rosner writes: 

> Alastair, many on the LUG, me included, know Jay and Rose Deutsch, owners 
> of the Leica Gallery in New York City, and Roger Horn, President of Leica 
> USA in New Jersey. They and I would be glad to contact both to introduce 
> you. 
> 
> If I know sufficiently in advance, I would be very glad to meet you in New 
> York, about 180 miles south of me for visits to Leica Camera, about 35 
> minutes from Manhattan, and to the Leica Gallery. 
> 
> And I'd be very glad indeed to put you in contact with Stefan Daniel, 
> product manager of Leica at Solms who in turn could introduce you to the 
> appropriate people there. 
> 
> Seth
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "firkin" 
> <firkin@balhpl01.ncable.net.au>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 6:02 PM
> Subject: [Leica] Re: ITS DONE!!! and Exhibit plans: off to Berlin 
> 
> 
>> Thanks Wayne, as I've already said, its the quality of the work which has 
>> made the project so interesting over the 4 years. I go back and look at 
>> the original final 100 and smile: they were very good.
>> Being the last year and now almost exactly 50 years since the opening of 
>> the original, I'm going to travel to Germany in May hoping to see the 
>> guys/gals at leica and at the Leica Gallery. Anyone got contacts. 
>> Obviously a visit to the NYC gallery would be handy: anyone offering and 
>> I think there is one in Japan. Before I go, I will be making up a DVD 
>> presentation of the images and highlighting those I already have in hard 
>> copy, so please everyone, get those scans on CD and those display prints 
>> done and off to Ballarat for storage.
>> Cheers
>> Wayne Serrano writes:
>>> Alastair,  Thought I'd also drop you a quick note here on the LUG to 
>>> once again say
>>> congratulations.  You've done an excellent job of creating a base 
>>> foundation
>>> of images that captures the individuality of all us people as we really 
>>> are,
>>> diverse and dissimilar yet all the same. Excellent job - Salute! Wayne
>>> wayne@wayneserrano.com
>>> Mobile: 949.500.7576
>>> http://www.wayneserrano.com
>>>   On 01/24/05 12:59 PM, "Alastair Firkin" <firkin@ncable.net.au> wrote:
>>>> Well I will be if we all get out there and start seeing images NOW:
>>>> remember, October will come around very quickly. Only last night I
>>>> realized that january is over -- well for me it seems to get into
>>>> anything means thinking Feburary ;-)
>>>> On 25/01/2005, at 6:50 AM, Aaron Sandler wrote:
>>>>> WELL DONE, ALASTAIR!!! I just looked through the final choices, and 
>>>>> it's a very nice bunch
>>>>> indeed. Thanks for organizing this, and doing all the hard work.  I 
>>>>> hope this
>>>>> final year is the best of the bunch! Best,
>>>>> Aaron At 02:33 AM 1/23/2005, you wrote:
>>>>>> For everyone who has had an interest in FOM2 year 4, the results are
>>>>>> IN. Thanks to all who helped, in particular Tom Smart, who has taken
>>>>>> over the web/submission board with such expertise, that one of the
>>>>>> common comments we now receive is how easy it has become to be part 
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> the project. Also special thanks to Zsolt Krajcsik and Michiel 
>>>>>> Fokkema
>>>>>> who undertook to distribute the judging CD's in North America and
>>>>>> Europe respectively. View the final selection at: 
>>>>>> http://stmaarten.globat.com/~afirkin.com/NewSite/FOM2%20Folder/
>>>>>> FOM2Gallery2004/index.html and please get involved again this year, 
>>>>>> so we go out with a bang!!!!!
>>>>>> This is particularly a call to all who were involved in years one to
>>>>>> four, buy some film, buy a digital, but get out there with your 
>>>>>> Leicas
>>>>>> and document the world. Cheers and Here's luck Alastair
>>>>> 
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