[Leica] LUG YEAR BOOK 2011 :-)

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Hi Jim,
Not to be out done by those Canadian's living in mainland Vancouver 
receiving their copy today. :-) I thought you'd like to know those of us who 
live on VANCOUVER ISLAND off the west coast received theirs today also! :-)

> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] LUG Yearbook 2011 just arrived in Vancouver, BC :-)
>
> Hi!
> ours  just arrived -  hot-off the press from Calgary.
> Looks great! Thank you Jim  for your wonderful work!
> Bests,
> Tuulikki & Tom AbrahamssonVancouver, BC
> Canada <<<<<<

OK! Now the book! :-) SMASHING!!!!!!!!! I have turned the pages front to 
back and back to front 5 times.

Jim my friend you have once again produced a book of class, simplicity of 
page after page of quite amazing photographs. Yes I know you didn't shoot 
any more than the rest of the crew, 2 photos each. But assembling them in 
the short time frame you work in, it really is amazing.

TO THE CREW!
Well OK all those who took the time to submit your two photographs! I can't 
thank you enough for your time and your photos! And a very special thank you 
to those who's name we rarely see or never see, trust me you folks should 
submit or write once in awhile with a photo you like and feel is a keeper.

Some very fine images from what I'll call... "Strangers!" But only because 
you stay in hiding. :-)  Now you're out in the light, doesn't it feel nice 
holding the copy in your hand and admiring not only your own? But all of 
those from other folks?

To all those who's lives were so full they couldn't take a few minutes to be 
part of the photo crew? Naw, I wont say anything, however just wait until 
December 2012! :-( I know I harangue and yell at you all, but that's not so 
much a personal thing. It's so you will send two photos and enjoy the 
wonderful experience of holding a book. That's what's so special!!!!!!! 
"IT'S A BOOK IN YOUR HANDS!" Not just a bunch of images on a screen that we 
look at day after day 365 a year!

It's the images on paper before your eyes and you hold them in your hands 
admiring what your mates have produced certainly in the quality of this 2011 
copy!

Once again to Jim Shulman I hold my glass on high in salute to a friend and 
fine all round very nice guy who has freely given of his time in helping 
others.

1/  The profit proceeds going to Project H.O.M.E.  (www.projecthome.org )

2/  For those of the crew who've never had pictures published anywhere, let 
alone with a creditline! To some, you'll open the book and find your pages, 
you gulp at seeing them and it feels nice.......... even though I've had my 
books published by the commercial market and in many magazines it's like 
this. :-) True!  The LUG book arrives and this is me after all these 
years....  I go cover to cover rather quickly, usually looking for my own 
images. Seems fair enough routine. :-) HOWEVER!

After I've reviewed the complete book a couple of times. I return to my own 
two pages. "I sit looking at one page, at the other, examine the images 
carefully, back and forth a few times and if I feel "cool?" I smile, put my 
hand on the page and feel the pictures! I kind of get goose bumps of... " I 
am published!" :-) It does feel nice! :-)

Trust me, I swear as long as I'm vertical and breathing, part of the "LUG 
FAMILY" and Jim Shulman is putting together a LUG YEAR BOOK? I will have my 
two images ready to go by the 1st of December each year!

Thanks again everyone. Please understand my "BARK AND BITCHING" is far worse 
than any bite I may have. :-)

Until next year.... OOPS!  I mean December this year 2012! ;-) See you in 
the "LUG BOOK 2012!"

cheers,
Dr. ted :-)