Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No Michiel, that wasn't me: I didn't go to the festivities this year. I look more like this, although less pompous in most situations ;-) : http://tinyurl.com/9bgss But 3 on a day is indeed a very nice catch. --- > From: Michiel Fokkema <michiel.fokkema@wanadoo.nl> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:13:00 +0200 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica sighting in Brussels > > Howard Ritter wrote: >> While attending the Belgian National Day festivities (a real treat, by the >> way, especially on the 175th anniversary of independence! Where else could >> you have seen the king and queen driven by in a c. 1970 Lincoln >> Continental >> 4-door convertible, close enough for the cheering subjects on either side >> practically to have reached out and touched them?), I spotted a >> 40-something >> guy with slightly graying light brown hair, in shorts, with a >> photographer's >> back pack, carrying a black R8 (maybe 9) with what looked like a 19mm >> Elmarit. He was busy in conversation with another, so I didn't have an >> opportunity to approach him. Made me sorry I'd left my own R9 at home in >> the >> U.S. this trip, or I could've waved it at him. >> >> Anyone on the list? >> > > I was in Brussels also, but I carried a black M6. > I also spotted a slightly small guy with black hair and a beard carrying > a LTM with a wide angele lens and a universal vf. Was that you or Philippe? > I also saw a woman with a black R3. > Quite a catch for one day. > > Michiel > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >