[Leica] opening bell

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

On 9/23/04 9:01 AM, "reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us"
<reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> typed:

> In the village of Kirimati, in the country of Kiribati, it
> is just after sunrise (06:01) on Friday, so the Leica
> Users Group 'For-sale Friday' is officially open for
> business. 
> 
> Kirimati is pronounced "Kee-ree-mass" and Kiribati is
> prounced "Kee-ree-bus". The island is known both as
> Kirimati and Kiritimati. Kiritimati is pronounced
> "Kee-ri-see-mass". (Say it out loud.) When it was an
> English colony, it was  known as Christmas Island. There
> is another unrelated island with that name (an Australian
> territory in the Indian ocean). Kirimati is part of the
> Line Islands archipelago.
> 
> Kirimati is big enough to have two hotels and air service.
> Despite its being a former British nuclear test site, it
> is now safe in terms of radiation hazard. There is a lot
> of cast-off military hardware littering the edges of the
> island, but it serves more as a replacement for pandanus
> leaves in the roofs of huts than as a danger. Piles of
> rusting scrap metal serve as landmarks.
> 
> There is spectacular fishing for bonefish on the shallow
> sand flats around the island.  It's slow film country; the
> light is incredibly intense, being very near the equator.
> 


I think we should have an anuual LUG meeting there!
Take all kinds of pictures like Cecil Beaton did with his Rolleiflex of the
scrap metal.

Set up tables for a swap meet.

Which would start Friday!

Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/