[Leica] LUG Yearbook

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Yes, I agree, Geoff.

Tina

On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
wrote:

> *Subject*: [Leica] LUG Yearbook
> *From*: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
> Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2016 22:53:31 -0800
> References: <CAH1UNJ2=
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> I agree that Richard's book styling has made for a successful photo book
> and I am admiring many great images in there. I think that the target
> audience is still the same small group though, unless you attract customers
> from outside the contributors list? That would be the magic trick if the
> goal was to generate donations for your chosen charity.
>
> For my own contributed images I was especially appreciative of the pairing
> with Doug Herr (Richard asked us first) but was certainly happy too to see
> them next to Charlie and Leo's fine work.
>
> For my two cents from when I was active in the LUG, it's maybe known I was
> always an advocate for keeping the Leica aspect of the LUG alive. Others
> feel differently and the LUG has long had non-exclusively Leica content
> naturally.  2014 was a very significant year for Leica Camera of course,
> hence the extra content that I included in that year. Personally I would
> have liked my captions to have been retained as they were intended to show
> results from the particular Leica equipment. Maybe that makes me the
> gearhead Leica buyer from Kyle's end notes! ;-)
>
> Editor's note is that you will need to completely replace the associated
> instructions and FAQ for 2016 (if you haven't planned to do that already?)
> to match the new format of course. I'm not sure at all that the really
> detailed descriptions that I had included were very effective.
> All the best for 2016 to all.
>
> ........................................................
>
> Jayanand and others: thank you for all your kind words on and off-lists.
>
> They mean a lot to us!!!
> Jayanand, you nailed the exact reasons why we we did what we did, we wanted
> to produce a "genuine" photobook and it appears we have achieved some
> levels of success.
>
> THANK YOU.
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> >* Richard,*
> >* IMHO, you and your wife have done a fantastic job, and have elevated*
> >* our yearly offering from a documentary Yearbook to a genuine*
> >* Photobook!*
> >* Cheers*
> >* Jayanand*
> >
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>
> Cheers
> Geoff
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