Well the time has come for a change. I will not be attending polocrosse carnivals on a regular basis in the future. The World Cup should provide people with lots of photos and a big event to remember.
I have enjoyed my contact with polocrosse, but have not been able to organise myself at the office end to do the job as it needs to be done, so it is better to stop. My move to the city changed many priorities. I became even busier, so much for 'retirement'. The hardware to do what I wanted has proven difficult to keep working, and I have developed other interests. Not a good combination to help me solve the issues that arose, like a failed computer, a failed storage hard drive and some lost data on the new system, and keep track of things at the same time as the many conflicting activities developed, from my bees to environmental issues locally. Perhaps with a good office secretary things would have been different, but I chose not to go that way.
I have been able to retrieve most image files and some order information and will send digital files where I can. I will progressively take the mass of image files off the website starting from the oldest. If there are any images that you want, make sure you make a note of image numbers and carnival, contact me if you have any questions. Send in an order if you want. I would like to supply any further images totally in digital format, I will send the printing file to you if I receive any orders so there is no printing and postage etc involved. Broadband has made this feasible.
I will miss polocrosse, it has provided me with a lot of enjoyment over the years and the people that I have met have provided a wealth of memories. I expect I will turn up at the occasional carnival to see how the sport is developing, how all those subbies are coming on in the sport.
I have a huge database of polocrosse images which I will organise so that they are not lost, and hopefully at some stage in the future can be used by the Association if there is interest.
I will not be leaving photography, just changing to smaller targets, and some university functions that clashed so often with the Club Championships.
Bob Luttrell
