LUG Yearbooks

(Last updated 6 April 2025)

The Leica Users Group, which calls itself "the LUG", is one of the oldest and longest-standing email photography groups. It was founded by Brian Reid in April 1992. A Facebook-based sister group was founded in 2015; there is significant overlap of the memberships of the email-based and Facebook-based versions.

LUG members are mostly of the generation that still uses email. Our children and grandchildren use Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok, and tend to prefer video to still photographs. We are still here, capturing and printing and publishing our non-video images.

In 2006, Jim Shulman created a LUG Yearbook, and he produced one every year until he collapsed from overwork after finishing the 2013 book. Various other editors have served since then, though no one produced a book for 2016, 2017, or 2018.

Yearbooks for for 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021 (imagewrap and softcover), 2022 (imagewrap and softcover), 2023 (imagewrap and softcover), and 2024 (imagewrap and softcover) are available on Blurb.com. You can preview each book at Blurb, or you can buy a copy. The 2014 yearbook is no longer on Blurb, but you can get the PDF version of it from the links below.

We have PDF versions for these years available here on our website:

2014, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 as pages, 2023 as 2-page spreads, 2024 as pages, 2024 as 2-page spreads

The choice of pages or spreads in recent editions is to make it easier to see the double-wide panoramas, most of which are spectacular

Here are the instructions for submitting images to the 2025 yearbook. We will update the instructions as next year's deadline (7 Feb 2026) approaches. That is, if there are enough of us still alive and still making photographs to manage a yearbook. Every year it gets smaller, but the quality of the pictures is better.