I checked my mail today only to come across one which started like this: -snip- Dear Mr Ryan Lee;
Thank you very much for your entry to the UNEP International Photographic Competition on the Environment 2004-2005. We are pleased to inform you that out of entries received from 169 countries all over the world, we have selected your photograph(s) as a candidate for final judging. -snip- Ok. Ration one minute for hyperventilation- now compose yourself Ryan. Apparently it's a pre-letter email giving me a heads up on what -is- coming in the mail. Good news right?? I don't know at the moment. Apparently they want the highest quality source of the image sent back to them by Christmas Eve, and they want me to verify that the photocopy they send me is indeed my work. Insert problem. Ryan doesn't live at the address he used to in Australia because he's had to move out; all of his mail now goes to a PO Box. Ryan's original image was on film- the negative is back in Australia, in a box in a friend's house. Ryan's currently in the UK with, fortunately, his laptop, which should have a 300dpi Noritsue scan somewhere in there- but practically this means that will be the only thing I can send back, sans the photocopy they send me. Also, the photo contest is judged, amongst others, by Sebastiao Salgado and Raghu Rai. Insert two minutes of hyperventilation. Insert another problem, Ryan is still having an intermittent out of body experience. Whatever shall I do!! Discombobulatedness! Ryan
