Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/12

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Subject: [Leica] Sold a Print for Charity
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Mon Mar 12 08:40:07 2007
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At 11:41 PM -0500 3/11/07, Sanjay Nasta wrote:
>I am jazzed.  Friday night, my brother organized an event called 
>Austin Under 40  for charity that raised close to $25,000 to send 
>underprivileged kids to camp. (Interesting sidenote the camps are 
>called Sunshine Camps because they were founded when we thought 
>sunshine cured tuberculosis).  At any rate, a good friend won 
>Austinite of the year.  Furthermore, I had donated a print 
>(http://aroundaustin.typepad.com/photos/austin/austindowntowndusk_2618_medium.html)
> 
>to the silent auction and the bidding was hot and heavy and it sold 
>for $400.  My mother proudly points out her Indian cooking class 
>went for more.  I've decided to donate prints to local charities 
>since my day job keeps me too occupied to sell any and heck makes me 
>a good enough living that I can afford a Leica every now and then.  
>

Nice going. I'm sure the buyer will be proud to show it, and the 
charity aspect just makes it so much better!

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    *            Henning J. Wulff
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