[Leica] NEW ASSIGNMNT? The subject for this week IS ... "THE TWILIGHT ZONE!"

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

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)
>
>
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