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Subject: [Leica] Paging Tina Manley - LUF book
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:58:40 -0800
References: <C7C08540.9389%lug@steveunsworth.co.uk>

On Mar 12, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Steve Unsworth wrote:

> Jeff, glad to hear I was not alone. Sorry, that should have read, my
> commiserations on not being selected.
> 
> Almost all the judging was anonymous - I was the only person who knew who
> had submitted what. Part of me wishes that the book had been under 100
> photographs as I think it would have been even stronger if that had been 
> the
> case. However the good thing is that we've already raised 7,250 GBP - 
> that's
> around 11,000 USD - so as far as I'm concerned that's a great success!


can you give us the story   the stats?

Steve


> 
> Steve 
> 
> 
> On 12/3/10 23:15, "Jeff Moore" <jbm at jbm.org> wrote:
> 
>> 2010-03-12-17:27:39 Steve Unsworth:
>>> Apart from myself I think everyone who entered a photograph had at least 
>>> one
>>> selected.
>> 
>> Oh, no -- you're not alone.  I'm zero for three.  The thing is,
>> though, looking at the photos picked, I don't see anything I consider
>> obviously inferior to what I entered in the categories I was entered
>> in.  I think my pictures were comparable to, but not obviously better
>> than, some things chosen -- and not too shockingly, I'm a fan of my own
>> work.  So by that admittedly personal measure, I think the quality of
>> the work picked is quite high.  Surprisingly high, actually.
>> 
>> I'll certainly be buying a copy of the book, damn them.
>> 
>> I remember thinking as I went through the latest LUG book that there
>> was some great stuff in there, but it might have been exceptionally
>> strong had it benefited from some judging and editing to around 2/3s
>> of the images in there.  Not the point of that book, of course, but
>> that was my thought.  And of course I assumed that were there such
>> editing, my pictures would have survived.
>> 
>> Be careful what you wish for.
> 
> 
> 
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