Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In August of 2009 I realized I had an extra 85mm f 1.8 - it's one of those lenses you replace with the AF version and can't sell the old one for enough to justify selling it because, HEY, it's still a really nice lens but there's no way you're ever going to use it again. It crossed my mind that I ought to give it away to someone who would use it. So I made this blog post: http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/444606.html which is how I met Javier Odriozola whose proposed project was to "drive around Uruguay and photograph the small villages" - which is about as awesome an idea for a project as I could imagine, so I shipped him the lens. And Javier drove through Uruguay photographing the small villages and he's got back and put together a collection of his photos which you can browse here: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1201949 And Javier's had an adventure, I feel like I helped the world wake up a tiny bit better than she went to bed, and we all have photos to look at that didn't exist before... It is, as they say a "win win". WHICH BRINGS ME TO A PROPOSITION ... We probably all remember a time when we had more ideas than equipment and I doubt there's a person on this list now who has some equipment they don't use - whether it's an AE-1, or a wireless trigger, or a box of assorted Hoya filters or a Polaroid back, or an enlarger. I propose that the LUG come up with an organized collection of micro-scholarships where we identify a) our excess equipment and b) people who have more ideas than equipment and DO something that produces a positive, quantifiable result - this might be that a certain number of images must be produced with the equipment and uploaded to the LUG gallery or that a larger project be undertaken. Thoughts? Ideas? Takers? Kyle