Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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! 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.