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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: decisive moment question on PAW: make it your project too
From: "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 18:27:12 -0700
References: <l03130304b9481765220b@[210.23.154.228]> <p05100305b949200fbf52@[203.208.68.144]>

> Well, I'm truely sorry you were so hurt by your experiences last
> year. I hasten to add, it was hardly my intention to hurt the
> feelings of anyone who submitted, but some of what you have said is
> quite simply not true: look at
>
> http://users.netconnect.com.au/~firkin/FOM2%20Folder/YearOneExhibit/source/1001.html
>
> and you will find a group of selections from your "everyday life"
> series were included. Your images are grouped because they conveyed
> the type of thing the project was after, but because they carried a
> similarity about them, they became a little lost in the judging. I
> recognized that by putting up over 20 images of everyday life, they
> voting on them would be split, and gee look, they are in. So, lets
> have everyone go and look at these images. Lets hear some comments.
> Are they so simply outstanding that you would expect one in every 4
> people to have voted them as best image from a choice of over 770? Be
> fair, the idea of the project was not to have individuals choosing
> images but rather for the collective group to express something.


Andrew.. you have really been too modest...those are really spectacular, the essence of
humanity....Steve


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In reply to: Message from Andrew Nemeth <azn@nemeng.com> ([Leica] Re: decisive moment question on PAW: make it your project too)
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