[Leica] letters from the editor

[photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)]

Thanks for the great story and for your efforts, Brian. One of the things I 
have always enjoyed about the yearbook as seeing photos by people who do not 
otherwise post much here. I hope we will still have a book. If it is shorter 
than before, so be it.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
photo at frozenlight.eu

http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
http://www.greatpix.eu
http://www.frozenlight.eu

YNWA




> On 13 Feb 2022, at 01:42, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> wrote:
> 
> For decades I was an editor (and occasionally THE editor) of a weekly 
> online publication covering the worldwide Anglican church (Episcopal, 
> Church of England, Scottish Episcopal Church, etc.) It started in 1994, 
> and at its peak in 2010 it had 250,000 readers worldwide.
> 
> It had a "letters to the editor" section that before the era of Facebook 
> and Twitter often had 20 or 30 publishable letters each week.
> 
> As instant media gradually eliminated interest in waiting a week to see 
> your letter published, I needed to work harder and harder to get people to 
> submit letters to us. Towards the end, I often resorted to submitting 
> "Letters from the Editor", in which I used pseudonyms to craft 
> realistic-looking letters and submitted them to myself. It was fun, a lot 
> of work, and ultimately pointless. I closed the Letters to the Editor 
> section in 2016 and I shut down the publication itself in 2019.
> 
> This week I thought briefly about doing something similar with the 2021 
> LUG Yearbook. Every year we lose LUG members and every year there are 
> fewer images submitted. Could I submit photographs from fake people, 
> keeping to myself the secret that I had taken those pictures myself?
> 
> No.
> 
> I'm an expert writer, and I can craft a letter to the editor that no one 
> will think was written by me. But I'm a duffer photographer, and I can't 
> make images worthy of padding the yearbook without them looking like I 
> took them.
> 
> All of the LUG yearbooks contain only pictures taken by real people. This 
> year there just won't be as many of them.
> 
> http://leica-users.org/yearbook/submitting.html
> 
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