[Leica] LUG Yearbook Covers

[jshul at comcast.net (Jim Shulman)]

I pick the cover subject for several reasons:

1. We're ostensibly a Leica users group, though not everyone uses a Leica
all the time.  Some merely aspire to Leica ownership/usage.

2. It eliminates any complaints about whose picture was selected for the
cover.  The last thing I want to do is get into a photo competition--the
whole purpose of the yearbook is collaborative, rather than competitive.
I'm thrilled that some notable gear users are able to send me gear shots for
the cover.  Really, the covers are merely an introduction or, as in the case
of the Ted Grant picture (this year) or Tina Manley picture (last year), or
the Brian Reid returned mail (year before that), a document of a notable
event that happened to a prominent LUG personage that year.

3. After covers like these, it only can get better inside <g>.

Thanks,

Jim
Who would vastly prefer to see a 500 page book next year, with more than 200
participants. So start shooting now.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net at leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Geoff
Hopkinson
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 5:02 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] LUG Yearbook 2009

Sorry to read that you guys think that my M9 shot (taken with an M8.2 and
Leica lens) was inappropriate for the cover of a Leica Users' Group book.
Jim and I aimed for something to echo the 2007 cover with its M8. In both
cases it was meant to reflect a very significant milestone for Leica.

2010/1/8 Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com>

>
> On Jan 7, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Richard Taylor wrote:
>
> > I noticed that, too.  While there quite a few M8 images and a few from
> the M9, most were from other gear.   The number of G-1 and GF-1 images
> surprised me, too.  As you said, there were lots and lots of really nice
> photos on display.
> > Maybe next year with the M9 in its second year of production we'll see
> more from that camera.
>
> as the book's emphasis is images, and is entirely gear neutral, why does
> the cover focus entirely on gear....?
>
> rather     "falls like a hair on the soup"
>
>
> Steve
>
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dick
>  >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 07, 2010, at 12:10 PM, Steve Barbour wrote:
> >
> >> My Leica Users Group Yearbook 2009 arrived this morning, by regular
> delivery Fed Ex...
> >>
> >> In a few words,
> >>
> >> superb, magical, captivating....
> >>
> >>
> >> I am so impressed by the many wonderful photos contained within...
> >>
> >> The quality of pure photographic expertise here always amazes me,
> >>
> >> impressively transcending issues of equipment.
> >>
> >> That said, the cover, while excellent misses the point, looking like it
> should be on some other book.
> >>
> >>
> >> Steve
> >>
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