Re: Showcase pictures in TAG and other magazines

["Karen Randall" <krandall@world.std.com>]

I personally think it is a waste of paper to print any of these photos in
B&W.  I think we either decide to run them in color, or not at all.

Karen

----- Original Message -----
From: James Purchase <jpurch@interlog.com>
To: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>
Cc: <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: Showcase pictures in TAG and other magazines


> OK, time to "weigh in" I guess. I think that it would be a shame for
another
> magazine to "scoop" TAG on the Showcase/Contest, but I leave timing issues
> up to others. We _can't_ hold Dave G. off indefinately, it just isn't fair
> to him or to the Showcase/Contest. This material is going to be
"newsworthy"
> for only a short period of time, allow that to pass and _nobody_ will be
> interested in printing it.
>
> By now you all probably also know that Kaspar Horst is interested in doing
> an article on the Showcase/Contest for Aquarium Heute, to be published in
> both the German and Italian editions of his magazine. Let's get as much
> mileage out of this as we can and to do that we've got to stike while the
> iron is hot and interest is high.
>
> Now, regarding the material I would _like_ to see in TAG - I have prepared
a
> preliminary version of a Contest Prize List and the latest version of it
is
> online in an HTML version at
> http://www.interlog.com/~jpurch/webs/TAG/Default.htm. Using the font
sizing
> info Mary has provided, this comes out to being 6 pages long when
formatted
> as a MS Word document. As for pictures, there are 6 Categories X Win,
Place
> & Show in each one = 18 aquascapes which would be _nice_ to see in print,
> plus Best of Show, possibly on the cover. Now, this would be _nice_, but
it
> isn't absolutely necessary - if cost is a _real_ concern we could go with
> just the 1st place winners (six photos) in color and the rest in B&W.
> Alternatively, maybe we don't need to print all of the winning entries -
> there might not be much interest in the 3rd place Articifical Aquascape.
>
> I don't know how much time would be required by Erik to produce "camera
> ready" artwork for Mary for this - the images are probably as ready as
they
> need to be right now.
>
> The Prize List can be delivered to Mary's inbox on the 30th, as can the
> "article".
>
> If printing the photos in this issue would cause unreasonable delays -
might
> I suggest that you forego pictures altogether (except perhaps for the
cover)
> and just print my "Intro" and the Prize List. I can always refer people to
> the web site to look at the pretty pictures.
>
> The "article" to accompany the images and the prize list is not going to
be
> extensive, nor very "deep". I have only just begun to sketch it out, but I
> expect that it will be very similar to the final Introduction Page on the
> web site - I doubt that it will run to more than a couple of pages. My
prime
> imperative here is to just get this out the door and into people's hands.
I
> don't intend to analyze the entries or comment on them - that's what we
had
> judges for and the 4 people who are doing the judging are far better
> qualified than I am to discuss things like that - and those sorts of
> articles can very easily be published AFTER this initial one.
>
> My initial article will merely cover the geographic areas where our
entries
> have come from, and say a few words about the wide range of styles that
were
> submitted. I would also like to thank some folks and invite people to
visit
> the web site to look at all of the images and perhaps buy a copy of the
> CD-ROM for leisurely study. Clean, short, simple. Nothing deep, nothing
> philosophical.
>
> James Purchase
> Toronto
>
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