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Subject: [Leica] Ted & Assignments in LWC
From: kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 22:24:41 -0700
References: <CA+yJO1B-aq3EcsReGYYrePe7Fqv-aW78QgSo+5NKfRNsRiC9mg@mail.gmail.com> <4F425F708F9C444BB3344F8F7525042A@syneticfeba505> <8F9ED7BE4FBF4B3DA4064C56479AA32F@Family>

Amen!

Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org
650-326-8204

Question authority and the authorities will question you.




On Aug 12, 2013, at 4:46 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Ted, you certainly have a busy schedule for a man who blithly gave us the 
> choice of TWO assignments for this week, and who HASN'T limited the number 
> of photos that anybody can submit on the topics. Best of luck with the 
> weddings.
> 
> Personally, I have NO objection to you picking just one winner and 
> commenting as to why you think it is the winner in your eyes. I don't 
> think it is necessary to comment on every picture submitted. The LUG 
> should be DAMNED happy to have a great photographer with your considerable 
> skills and vast experience judging the entries submitted, and equally be 
> very happy with your choice of winner. It's a personal choice for you and 
> LUG should just accept it. If people are unhappy, they can choose not to 
> enter.
> 
> I consider that entries should be limited to one photo per LUG member, no 
> comments submitted until the result is announced, and no criticism of the 
> judge's choice be entertained. This might make it simpler to manage!!!
> 
> If you are loath to make rules, I might suggest to the rest of the LUG 
> that they only submit one photo per topic, rather than blizzard a raft of 
> similar efforts at the hapless judge. At our age, all of us are surely 
> capable of choosing our own best picture on each topic. Bear in mind, the 
> sheer volume of both emails and pictures on the LUG sometimes makes it 
> very difficult to look at everybody's photos, and cranking up the volume 
> even further should be discouraged.
> 
> These are my personal opinions and I'm equally sure that all of you have 
> your own!!
> 
> Other opinions, anybody????
> 
> Douglas
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <tedgrant at shaw.ca>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 10:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMGS: Wedding Photos
> 
> 
>> Tina Manley OFFERED:
>> Subject: [Leica] IMGS: Wedding Photos
>> 
>>> My son and his bride got married in Gibraltar in March, after hiking the
>>> Camino de Santiago.  They got remarried yesterday in Charleston for all 
>>> of
>>> their friends and family who couldn't make it to Gibraltar.
>>> 
>>> http://www.pbase.com/image/151792382
>>> 
>>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/151792383
>>> 
>>> It was a beautiful wedding!  I only took about 1000 photos ;-)
>> 
>> Hi Tina,
>> Well I'll be the wedding photographer next Saturday as two of my 
>> grandson's Kyle -Victoria and Kyle-Ottawa get married on the same day! :-(
>> 
>> However, it was originally planned to be on separate Saturdays. One today 
>> and one next Saturday.  I mean when you have two grandson's the same name 
>> it's bad enough when you are talking about them or about them you have to 
>> designate which one all the time. Let alone their about to be wive's mix 
>> the wedding day dates, both happening on the same day!! :-(
>> 
>> The families bad enough with 2-Ted's, 2- Scotts, 2- Kate's thoughout the 
>> collection. But  when they screw-up the wedding  dates makng it 
>> immpossible to get to both you take the nearest, save a big pile of money 
>> in airfares and let the Kyle in Ottawa with bride fly here for a bit of a 
>> Honeymoon with the "old lad. Then with his cousin Kyle and is bride they 
>> will both share the honeymoons together !  Me?  I'll be editing my 
>> thousand frames???? :-)
>> 
>> The scary thing is, they were two little boys not so long ago who sat on 
>> my knee and watched grandpa show slides from the last assignment from 
>> wherever in the world! :-) BOY DOES TIME EVER FLY!
>> 
>> Any tips for the old lad as I haven't shot a wedding in nearly 50 years 
>> and I always hated every minute even though I was extremely well paid for 
>> doing them. :-(
>> 
>> May have some happy snaps to show after next Saturday. 
>> mmmmmaaayybbbbeeee???????????? ;-)
>> 
>> cheers,
>> ted
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> No poblem G'Pa could've flown to Ottawa and been back here for the week 
>> laer. Well it started out like that
>> 
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In reply to: Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] IMGS: Wedding Photos)
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca) ([Leica] IMGS: Wedding Photos)
Message from imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry) ([Leica] Ted & Assignments in LWC)