[Leica] FOM 2

[Alastair Firkin <firkin@netconnect.com.au>]

Your website looks great and I'm enthralled by the ambition of your project.
To that end I'm thinking hard about contributing, but I have some
reservations starting with the name of the project.
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Dave,
Nothing in this world is set in concrete, but part of the inspiration of
this is the very nature of the original. We are not trying to compete
directly, we are not saying that our work is as or more worthy, and we are
not attempting to "ride" the name hoping to get some benefit. As someone
said, a five year project is a long time in this 2 second society. That is
true, but I'm not that sort of person. I do not believe that we should
lower the sights of this project, and so for now the "working" title will
remain FOM 2, and the term of the project will remain 5 years. Remember:
1. Judging will occur every year, and 100 images chosen to represent the
project in a web exhibit, so there is a short term goal built in to the
longer term plan and

2. it is a working title at this stage, and if the project grows or changes
etc then we grow with it. I for one like the idea of using a broad brush
but inspiring title, because for me, if I don't aim at the top, I'm sure to
fall out at the bottom.

Cheers


Alastair Firkin

http://users.netconnect.com.au/~firkin/AGFhmpg.html