[pure-silver] Re: Fees
- From: <genej2@xxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:10:35 -0400
Dear Uncle,
Style has become such a rare thing. And folly recieves nowhere near the praise
it should. Happy birthday Sir. I think I want to be just like you when I grow
up.
Gene Johnson
>
> From: "Stein" <rstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2006/04/21 Fri PM 08:30:15 EDT
> To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Fees
>
> Dear Justin,
>
> Just so, Justin.
>
> Uncle Dick is not the world's greatest photographer. This he freely
> admits, though some nights the wastepaper bin in the darkroom is not as full
> as others....
>
> What I can offer the brides ( And you were correct in saying that they
> are all referrals - I do not advertise in either my surgery or my studio. )
> is a good basic service with a high proportion of desireable photo records
> of the day. Desireable rather than salable - a point that Gianni raised with
> the jazz musicians and you touched on with the bike riders. I don't sell
> pictures - I sell myself and Igor, and the fact that we are usually
> unflappable on the day.
>
> In my food job I deal with pain and disease and blood and little bits of
> things that fly off the patients and have to be sponged off the walls. If I
> am lucky. Disasters happen right before my very eyes and in many cases
> because of my very fingers. I have learned to take it calmly, smile, and
> reach around behind me for something sharp. This is very good practise for
> weddings.
>
> I can soothe the bride, write the groom's speech, repair the wedding
> cake, sponge the motor oil off the flower girl, and still take about 15
> rolls of 120 film. My peace of mind comes from my contract with the wedding
> couple. It IS with the wedding couple, not their rellies. They pay me direct
> and once the payment is made they are in control of their own negs, pics,
> copyright, and destiny.
>
> I have been lucky so far in being able to read the personalities of the
> wedding couples well enough in advance to see what approach to take on the
> day - not all of them respond to the Uncle Dick brand of humour. Some groups
> of people, and I would get myself in trouble if I said who, are less
> self-assured in themselves and require a stiffier form of address and a more
> florid show of dignity on the day. Some religious people are also in this
> category, and I have learned to recognise the signs and act accordingly. I
> have never actually had to burn a church and slaughter all those who escape
> but it has come close on a couple of occasions....
>
> Glad I don't have to earn food money by doing weddings each weekend.
> Glad I don't have some of the pressure that I read about in North America on
> these occasions. But also glad that I get to go out and play every so
> often - particularly if the wedding couple are wise people and make sure
> they lay on a little dinner for Igor and I. I hate to have to call Domino's
> in the middle of the ceremony.
>
> Uncle Dick
>
> PS* Tonight is the cocktail party to celebrate my 58th birthday and I am
> going to appear as Erasmus of Rotterdam. Needless to say I shall be reading
> from " In Praise of Folly "....
>
>
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