[Leica] Ted Grant in London

[firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)]

good to see and hear Ted's progress as he LUG's around the UK ;-)

Cheers
On 16/10/2005, at 9:01 AM, Peter Dzwig wrote:

> As a few of you know I met up with Ted a few days ago in London as he 
> was passing through on his way to Wales.
>
> As I've got the release form agreed I can now post ;-) These are a few 
> shots taken with and of him on the day.
>
>
> Probably an inappropriate shot to start with:
>
> Ted shoots Canon - with Canon glass!!
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album278/CanonAd200510
>
> Fred Schwab was Ted's host and kind enough to allow me to join their 
> stroll around the embankment and St. Paul's:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album278/FredandTed200510
>
> We moved on to the Millenium Bridge between Tate Modern at Bankside 
> and St. Paul's.
>
> OK. Ted's in focus, the shutter will traverse the frame in 1/200th sec 
> and still I can't freeze his hand as it brings up the Canon. Ted is 
> fast! The camera in focus ** and ** by his side is the Digilux 2...
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album278/He_sfast200510
>
> Some may remember that I photographed it some 1.25 degrees from 
> horizontal (see PAW 20/20A).
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album278/TedonMilleniumBridge200510
>
> Ted had to hold the camera at an odd angle too! When I got the film 
> back I had to rotate this image by 1.25 degrees AGAIN - could it be 
> me, or the bridge?
>
> The other side of the bridge...we all shot these steps in different 
> ways:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album278/StPaul_sSteps
>
> NEXT: Exercise in street photography:
>
> Ted's instruction was " see how close you can get to those two while 
> pretending to take St.Paul's and get them, before they notice". After 
> I got two thirds of the way the guy at the left got up and turned his 
> back...as the other guy just ate his sandwich.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album278/Howclosecanyouge1200510_1
>
>
> Did I loose? Well no, because I got this :-)
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album278/Howclosecanyouge1200510_1
>
> and yes, that is a surreptitious self-portrait!
>
> Next we came across this young photographer setting up his shot:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album278/ChildPhotographer200510
>
> this is his subject (...with him at the left)
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album278/Photographees200510
>
>
> That's all for the moment folks!
>
> Hope you got some pleasure from them.
>
> thanks again to both Ted and Fred,
>
> Peter Dzwig
>
>
> ** To UK LUGers **: Ted says that he would like to come back to London 
> and meet up with the rest of us sometime soon!
>
>
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Alastair