[Leica] letters from the editor

[pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)]

Brian,

is it realistic to suggest that existing contributors are allowed the 
chance to submit a third- and any others be allowed to submit three images?

Peter

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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Dr. Peter Dzwig