Cheers Rob... yes, the photog press have been gt... have got right behind it... will put up a post about it in a bit...

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Agree with all of the above... haven’t had the pleasure of the FA 20-35, but have only heard good things... have had the Tokina 17mm, Pentax A20 and FA20... I personally felt my copy of the Tokina 17mm was slightly out-resolved by the K1... but the A20 and the FA20 are both great... not quite as nose-bleedingly sharp as say the DFA 15-30, but plenty sharp enough... I still regularly use the FA20 as my wide angle prime... only moved my A20 on as it wasn’t getting quite enough use...

Good luck with it all David...

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Super set this Gareth... always look forward to your trips to your local beach... there's something that comes from knowing a place inside out... and lots of lovely stuff elsewhere... particularly like the tree shots of 1 and 11... 11 in particular for it's lovely understated painterly feel...

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Thanks Rob, Peter and Roger for your kind words... have been delighted with the launch... a couple of exciting things still in the pipeline... will update in the New Year...

Thanks again all... hugely grateful for all your support for the project...

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Thanks so much all for all your support for this project... hugely appreciated my end... have been absolutely delighted with the launch... loads of coverage on both a local and a national level... flat out packing and posting for the last 10 days or so... a thoroughly positive experience all round...

Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas indeed...

Thanks again and best

Thanks Rob...

All out in the first class post to you all! Signed (I think I've managed to match the real life names and addresses - do let me know if I haven't), sealed, and on their way...

Thanks again...

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Ah thanks Nigel, David and John... very much appreciated...

David, yes, great, the streaming/on demand thing is how quite a few theatres are getting around it this year... as you say, would be great to be there in person, but if that's not possible (and it's not going to be most places by the looks of things), then it's definitely worth doing...

John, yes, was printing all the labels/sending out emails today... will be putting everything together tomorrow (Tuesday), and down to the Post Office Wednesday... exciting times...

Thanks again all...

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Ah thanks Roger, Serge, Steve, David, John and Robert for all your support on this... hugely appreciated this end... very inventive ideas too...

I'm going to sign all the books, I think... certainly for now... keeps things simple my end, and the buying of the book is a huge contribution in itself, for which I'm very grateful... but gt ideas all...

Steve, very sorry to hear re your local group... as you say, I think it's going to be tricky on the performance front (music, dance, theatre, you name it) for a while... as long as there's social distancing, live performance of pretty much any kind (and watching it) will be difficult... not impossible, but difficult, and restricted for both performers and audiences alike... as you say, certainly in my line of work we're not expecting anything to change for quite a while going into 2021... there'll be exceptions (live streaming, small cast plays, the odd musical that's prepared to open and make a loss), but the maths of the theatre business remains the same: most plays need 60-70% capacity audiences to break even, and social distancing reduces that to 30-40%... something of an intractable problem...

Serge, yes, interesting to hear how it's impacting in France... very similar I think to the UK, although we traditionally tend to subsidise our individual artists less in this country (not a criticism of the UK, incidentally, just a different way of doing it)... part of the difficulty of the last year in the theatre world has been the high number of performers/freelancers/theatre workers (about 40% of the Equity membership) not covered by any of the government schemes at all (Furlough, SEISS, UC etc.)... but... I don't want to go too far down that road... I'm acutely aware that this has been a mighty tough year for everyone...

Thanks again all... am very grateful for all your support for the project... it's been a hugely positive thing to put together... here's to a hopefully more gregarious 2021!

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Ah thanks John... that's very good of you... one signed copy coming right up... that's a good idea re the option on the payment page... hadn't thought of that... although not sure how much extra I'd be able to charge... somewhere between 1 and 10p I reckon! 😉

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Ah thanks Nigel, Peter and Gary... very good of you... yes, can def do the signing thing... sharpie at the ready!

Thanks John for the ADAPS link... much appreciated...

Peter, all gd on the print run thus far, just depends on how much traction it gets on the publicity front... would be a nice problem to have...😉

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