Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/17

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Subject: [Leica] The cat came back...
From: mcintyre at ca.inter.net (Jim McIntyre)
Date: Tue Aug 17 19:27:10 2004

Hello LUG

I unsubscribed a few weeks ago. I was a little annoyed with some of the 
off-topic chatter, the "cliquish" and self-serving dialogue, and the general 
meandering of the group, etc. More to the point, I posted 5 PAW's in a row, 
and got zero -- nada -- feedback. I'm under no delusions that I'm the next 
HBC, or anything close, but I do think I have something to offer. And I 
really do appreciate feedback -- laudatius or otherwise. The lack of 
response is worse than negative (and hopefully constructive) feedback. It's 
like talking to a dead phone line....

However, I have been checking the LUG archives, and looking at the posts. 
I've skipped over the more off-topic messages (which admittedly can be quite 
entertaining and educational), stayed away from the vitriolic political 
threads, and checked all the PAW and photograph postings I could. The truth 
is I have valued the feedback I have received in the past, and knowing I had 
an "obligation" to keep up my PAW activities for the LUG kept me active with 
my camera (no small challenge with rebuilding a career and 3 kids...).

So I'm back. And to put my money where my keyboarding is, I've posted a PAW:

http://members.rogers.com/jmcdesigns/jamesstreet/2004-33.htm

Slam away, lambaste me for using my nieces and daughter as convenient 
subjects, but please, let me know you took the time to view my work, and by 
all means let know what I can do to improve. No photographer should work in 
vacuum...except to remove the dust from the negatives!

ciao...

Jim


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