Digital BW, The Print

Well, Yahoo's back but slow...

Let me respond to a couple of the posts...

Jerry- I'm committed for the foreseeable future to doing a 10-15 
exchange each month...I'm looking to all of you to speak out on the 
format, etc (theme, no-theme, etc)

Mike- I think you represent about half the people that I have 
corresponded with in organizing the last 3 months (yeah, I know the 
first one isn't mailed yet <g>...it will be next week). 

Ricardo- you represent the "new blood" who we all want to be sure we 
help and encourage without intimidation. More of the "new folks" are 
somewhat hesitant and worried they shouldn't participate. I encourage 
anyone to give it a try...some of the best things I've learned in 
life have come from "newcomers" regardless of the discipline.

Martin- you hit the nail on the head...we can all get from this list 
and from exchanges whatever we want, but there isn't some "ask 
peeves" feature that is going to provide it... We need to speak out 
and join in.

As it stands right now, my assessment is that most exchangers are 
looking to see each others work for lots of reasons...one of the 
strongest isn't to get a public critique but to be able to email the 
creator of some of the fantastic prints they received and ask him/her 
what did they do about XXXX to make it. To foster this, I send each 
participant an email list of all the others. This doesn't even take 
into account how much you can learn from the data sheet that each 
person includes with the print (one even included a 4 page photo 
illustrated tutorial).

I'm glad to see this discussion thread... I'm reading it carefully 
looking for ways to improve the format I'm using...and hoping there 
might be some gems I can implement.

Tom O'Connell

TomOC@...
www.thomasoconnell.com


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Michael Kravit" 
<michael.kravit@w...> wrote:
> The nerve of Yahoo.
> 
> See everyone on Sunday.............
> Good shooting and printing....
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Martin Wesley 
>   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y... 
>   Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 10:45 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Digital BW] ...Print Exchange
> 
> 
>   Wow, we finally get an nice non-technical and important thread 
going and in
>   1:15 Yahoo is going to shut us down for 2 or 3 days. So as we 
fade out here,
>   please hold you thoughts and try to pick things up after the dust 
settles.
> 
>   Martin
> 
> 
> 
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