Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information