Postcard Exchange Round 20 - Comments and Feedback

[rst]

Hi all,

Again, as in previous rounds, let us move from the sign-up thread to this thread to collect comments, feedback, being-late-announcements and my-cards-are-in-the-mail-messages.

I am looking forward to this new round and I hope that everybody will have fun.

Cheers
Ruediger

And here is again the list of participants:

Allen Friday (MAX)
aluk (30)
anikin (20)
Aron (20)
Black Dog (MAX)
BoxBrownie (MAX)
crispinuk (50)
Dave Martiny (30)
david James lee (20)
djhopscotch (25)
drpsilver (MAX)
Fleath (MAX)
gordrob (30)
gr82bart (MAX)
gurkenprinz (30)
hoffy (20)
hwv (25)
ignatiu5 (20)
johnnywalker (25)
Jostie (20)
jst (15)
Kevin Kehler (25)
kraker (25)
KWhitmore (MAX)
labcoat (25)
Laurent (MAX)
likemarlonbrando (20)
lorirfrommontana (MAX)
markrewald (MAX)
MattKing (28)
mckenna (40)
Mick Fagan (MAX)
mike c (25)
mooseontheloose (40)
Nige (15)
OMU (20)
Oxleyroad (20)
ozphoto (20)
Patrick Latour (MAX)
paul_c5x4 (15)
Pete H (MAX)
PhotoJim (50)
Rob Skeoch (MAX)
Roger Bulcock (MAX)
rst (40)
rtbadman (MAX)
RTMoynihan (10)
sage (20)
Samad Asad (MAX)
slumry (MAX)
sly (50)
Stephen Frizza (MAX)
Tim Gray (MAX)
trotkiller (MAX)
Valerie (25)
Wayne Frederick (20)

And the extra addresses for those with some spare cards:

Sean Ross
P.O. Box 478
Whangaparaoa
Hibiscus Coast
New Zealand

Simon Galley
HARMAN Technology Ltd
Town Lane
Mobberley, Knutsford
Cheshire, WA16 7JL
United Kingdom

Brad Kruchten
President Film Products Group
Eastman Kodak Company
343 State Street
Rochester, New York 14650
USA

 

[Alex Bishop-Thorpe]

I'm excited

 

[Black Dog]

Let's go to work...

 

[mike c]

Post cards ,post cards,really nice working all day in this hot weather and coming home to relax and find a couple of post cards in the mail box to look over while enjoying a cool beer.Post cards lower blood pressure.

 

[rst]

I have sent out some address corrections. If you do not have mooseontheloose or Nige on your list, please ignore.

So I think we can start now.

Have fun
Ruediger

 

[ozphoto]

Woo Hoooo. Let the fun begin!!!!

 

[Alex Bishop-Thorpe]

Two exchanges ago Nanette was just down the road from me, now she's in an entirely different country Very cool.
I'll give my postcards a bit more time to flatten out, but I've ordered a bundle of stamps from Australia post online...hope everyone likes aeroplanes, trains, and the ever-popular baby koala.

 

[ozphoto]

Hey Fleath!

It's great to be getting cards from home in a totally different country too.
Can promise you won't have me being a deadbeat this round - will be posted by weeks end!!

 

[Patrick Latour]

Post cards ,post cards,really nice working all day in this hot weather and coming home to relax and find a couple of post cards in the mail box to look over while enjoying a cool beer.Post cards lower blood pressure.

Yes it is lowering blood pressure, but like I try to explain to my wife, it works only when taken with the beer...

Ok, let's turn the lights off, and start printing, printing and printing...

 

[mike c]

Yes it is lowering blood pressure, but like I try to explain to my wife, it works only when taken with the beer...

Ok, let's turn the lights off, and start printing, printing and printing...

Don't think my wife would buy the the beer part,but what tha hay give it a try.

Mike

 

[drpsilver]

Ok, let's turn the lights off, and start printing, printing and printing...

08 June 2010

Oh how I want to "turn the lights off, and start printing". But alas I have a project that will delay sending my cards until around month end. I have the image selected and proofed, just need time in the dark.

Regards,
Darwin

 

[RTMoynihan]

just sent my ten out, hopefully I'll have more time to print next time round, have AS exams at the moment. Sent from the same place that the photo taken! Hope you get them soon.
all the best

 

[RTMoynihan]

Ah shit, just found the stamps I was supposed to put on my postcards to abroad, I must have put the 'par avion' stickers on only and the last post just went. Well I'll just have to post some more ahwell! Those on my list may end up with two postcards in the end!!
Apologies,

 

[sly]

Woooie! I got one already! An international one to boot!
Rachelle's card arrived from Japan. I won't spoil the surprise for those who've not recieved it yet. Love it Rachelle.

 

[MattKing]

The Japan to Canada mail system must be working really well right now.

I too received from mooseontheloose (aka Rachelle) a little gem of a postcard entitled "The Zen Photographer". It's wonderful.

1 down, 27 to go

 

[mooseontheloose]

Wow -- that was really fast! Maybe Japan Post and Canada Post have a special arrangement for mail going to and from B.C. ;-)

 

[mike c]

Its a little faster than the US post,got your card today Rachelle.Its a happy little carving,must be a neat place.
Sent mine of today so hope I used the right address's .

Mike

 

[ozphoto]

Rachelle, your card arrived in Thailand on Saturday. I love it! Brings back fond memories of working in Japan - Kyoto and Nara are high on the list of two places I want to return to for leisure, rather than business.

 

[Laurent]

Go Rachelle's card yesterday, the first I receive in round 20 ! The statue is lovely, and your composition makes a great image, very peaceful !!

Thanks !

 

[Samad Asad]

Received my first card for this exchange, from Rachelle (aka mooseontheloose) today. Interestingly, 'rakan' means 'friend' in the malay language.

 

[Alex Bishop-Thorpe]

I got mine from Rachelle (mooseontheloose) just this morning - that's some dang fast mail on Japan's part. I dig the little photographer-guy, and really like how you've printed it. Very nice quiet borders. It's stuck on my whiteboard.

 

[mooseontheloose]

Thanks Alex.

I really liked the entire shrine area -- there's nearly a thousand statues, all carved by amateurs, ranging from surfer dudes to sax players, to a couple of guys sharing a bottle of sake. Unfortunately when I arrived there it was already getting on the afternoon, and being a shaded area full of trees and moss, I didn't have much light to play with, but I'm really happy with the photos I got. Hopefully I'll be able to go there again whenever I get a chance to make it back to Kyoto. The monk who runs the place also makes his own music (very zen) and sells it at the front gate. A bit of a hippie kind of place overall.

That being said, I almost stepped on the biggest snake I had ever seen in my life (at least five feet long) hanging out amongst the statues. It did not hang around for pictures (and neither did I after that!).

 

[Oxleyroad]

Mick, Yours titled 'Nancy' arrived today and it is my first. I hope mine is up to your level.

I have to wait until I get back from OS (12th July) before I will be able to get stuck into printing my cards for every one. Who kows the image I have selected for the cards might change after this trip to Michigan.

 

[Mick Fagan]

Andy, that postcard is on old one I did a few exchanges ago. Some of the Australian people in this exchange are also in the Australian print exchange.

The Australian print exchange people on my list are getting an 8x10 version of the round 20 postcard exchange, but an earlier postcard exchange print left over. Couldn't have you lot getting two from the same negative, then bagging me

Mick.

 

[ozphoto]

Mine got dropped in the mail today, so 20 cards are on their way to various parts of the globe!
Wonder if Thailand Post will be as efficient as Rachelle's Japan Post?