[Leica] IMPORTANT: LUGbook 2015

[RicCarter]

Richard—you the man—do it as you like

If anyone finds this inconvenient, they should just let us know and we’ll send a couple of photos to do it their way

nobody hired you Richard, so we don’t get to boss you around

thanks again for your labor

ric





> On Dec 18, 2015, at 5:03 PM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear LUG family and contributors:
> 
> I have a received a strong objection to making the change. Fundamentally,
> it comes down to two things:
> 
> First, the nature of the policy change is unexpected and last minute. It is
> true, if I have made the decision early on and made the announcement
> earlier, then people who may object to this policy can debate or withhold
> contributions. For this I apologize.
> 
> Second, there are questions of my exerting artistic preference over that of
> the contributors. I need to digest this, as the mere fact that an editor
> has to sequence the contributors in some ways regardless, even if we do it
> simply by the first name or last name or other arbitrary ordering, it's a
> decision on our parts.
> 
> The person is correct that this is not "my book", but nominally a "LUG year
> book" although even there we have strayed a bit in previous years by
> inviting other people into the fold.
> 
> I am somewhat torn on this and I welcome any discussion. I am not looking
> for sympathy, or people to "beat up" on the person. I know from feedback
> that someone will be unhappy regardless. However, personally I am more
> concerned that it is true that I did not make the policy change early, and
> this would appear to be a "bait and switch".
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Gene Duprey <geneduprey2015 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Make it your production, If you want to mix the photos, then I'm OK with
>> it.
>> 
>> Gene
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 4:03 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Your call! Why not put your own stamp on the production?
>>> Shall be interested to see how this works out...my ex-editor brain is
>>> fascinated!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> ..................................................................................................................................
>>> 
>>> While working on the book, I am making an executive decision: I will
>>> sequence the images in some order, and not 2 consecutive images per
>>> submitter like previous years.
>>> 
>>> Per usual, I will not edit the images in any way, and the caption and any
>>> image placement preference (e.g. some people want full bleed) will be
>>> honored.
>>> 
>>> If you have strong feeling that your photos must be kept together, please
>>> email me.
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> --
>>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
>>> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto
>>> // https://instagram.com/richardmanphoto
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Geoff
>>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>> 
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>>> 
>> 
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto
> // https://instagram.com/richardmanphoto
> 
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