Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Ted, I'll be patrolling the twilight zone here until Friday Douglas ----- Original Message ----- From: <tedgrant at shaw.ca> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 10:12 PM Subject: [Leica] NEW ASSIGNMNT? The subject for this week IS ... "THETWILIGHT ZONE!" > OK CREW. :-) assignment this week! :-) IN HERE BY NEXT SATURDAY MIDNIGHT! > Whatever your midnight is? Now that must help a little? ;-) ;-) > > " THE TWI-LIGHT ZONE!" This is wide-open for you to pick a subject that > fits within what you.... "the photographer" considers the "TWI-LIGHT > ZONE?" Actually I think this "SHOULD" be a wild assortment! :-) > > Have a go and please one submission only. THANK YOU. > cheers, > Dr. ted:-) > Mean bugger! Right? ;-) ;-) Have fun, it's not work! Think wild > imagination stuff? > > > ----- Original Message ----- >>From: <tedgrant at shaw.ca> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 11:54 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Ted, thank you I'M HERE! I'M HERE! :-) > > >> 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 :-) >> ==================================== >> >>> 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) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >