[Leica] letters from the editor

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Yes, Brian, it is indeed a pity that varying factors, death, age, 
mobility, declining ability, and, in particular, the plague, and its 
fears of the outside world, have reduced the level of contribution from 
our members.

Perhaps if inclusion of the first three months of this year was allowed, 
and you pushed the acceptance date to the 10th of April, maybe there 
would be a few more bites. Alternatively, those of us who have submitted 
might send in another image, and if you were swamped, have a draw, and 
people could allocate which one of their images would not included in 
the yearbook.

Thank you for all the work.

Douglas


On 13/02/2022 00:42, Brian Reid 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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