Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve, glad to. When a few of us proposed to create a book of photographs from the members of the Leica user forum it was decided quite early on that it would be a good idea to try and use the project as a way of raising some money for a charity. The charity we chose was a cancer charity AICR. AICR are an international charity and as such we felt that it was a good match for the international nature of the forum. Everyone who submitted a photograph - up to a maximum of 3 photographs - had to make a 10 GBP donation to the charity for each photograph. Over 500 photographs were submitted and 7,250 GBP were raised. Quite a few people actually submitted more than the 10 GBP required, and several people donated without submitting a photograph. You can see a breakdown of who submitted what here... <http://www.justgiving.com/L-Camera-Forum-Book> Every copy of the book will also raise 5 GBP for the same charity. Leica are involved in the sense that the CEO will be writing a foreword for the book, we are currently working on increasing Leica's involvement in the project, and when I have more news about this I'll let everyone know. Hope that's all of interest. Steve On 12/3/10 23:58, "Steve Barbour" <steve.barbour at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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?