Re: Re: Pinhole Christmas Card Swap

I would like it to be a little less structured and more open-ended. How about just
emailing the list of names and addresses, or have them posted somewhere, and everyone
can send cards to whoever they want. I don't really see this as a print swap, anyway;
we are just sending photographic holiday postcards to each other. Let's loosen up a
little just for once :-)

Jan Kapoor

Guy Glorieux wrote:

> R Duarte wrote:
>
> > > P.S. We should probably decide on some general guidelines for the swap
> >
> > i will definitely put them on the signup page. let me know if you find the
> > guidelines that you had for the last swap.
> >
> > so far it looks like the size could be whatever you used last time. the max
> > size for a postcard is 4.25 x 6 but if someone wants to pay the extra
> > postage, why not let them do 5 x 7 or whatever you had before. also, you
> > said that you allowed printouts, etc. as long as the image wasn't
> > excessively manipulated. nobody seemed to object so that sounds good too.
> > other than those 2 requirements, I don't know what else there would be so if
> > you find the requirements from the last swap or remember what else you had
> > in there i'll add it all to that webpage.
> >
> > rob
>
> Rob,
> I did find them and they cover exactly what we have at the moment, (except that the
> maximum size for that swap was 8x10).
>
> We also had guidelines on the topic. Two groups decided that the topic would be
> "open" while one group chose to have "self-portrait" as the theme for their images.
> We also set a deadline for mailing out the prints, which in that case was May 30th.
>
> In the present case, I suppose that a topic that was related to Christmas or New
> Year celebrations would be appropriate, but let's hear what others feel.
>
> We should also agree on a deadline for mailing the cards. I would propose that this
> be around December 1st. This would give us a couple of months to choose/make the
> negative to print from and enough time for the cards to be in before Christmas.
>
> My count so far on the registration page is 21 participants. I think that this
> should be a manageable number for everybody. If the list of participants becomes
> too large, there may be a need to break the project into two groups, as we did in
> the Spring.
>
> For those who are late comers and wish to participate, remember that you can add
> your name at Rob's dedicated page at
> http://www.rahji.com/noindex/pinholexmas.php3
>
> Cheers,
>
> Guy
>
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