Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Chris, my wife was in fact in that jewellery shop photo but exercised her veto option causing a crop. I like the musician shot. It was an Indonesian restaurant where we sat and had a delicious variety of food. Aussies eating Indonesian, in the Netherlands, we might almost have been home. Actually the "Dutch East Indies" history is a fascinating connection. This gentleman was adjacent to us and was apparently conducting his way through the compositions. I could almost have wished for slightly more blur (I got a little) to his pencil to convey the movement. I mis-judged slightly the needed shutter speed. Still not too bad for available light at night. The mighty Summilux 50 asph, of course. Cheers Hoppy -----Original Message----- FSubject: Re: [Leica] IMG: New Hoppy travelogue part two, Amsterdam Hoppy My favourites are Senorita in Jewellery Shop and Musician Reviews - but those beers look so inviting!! Thanks for showing. Chris B On 03/11/2007, G Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > LUG citizens, my LUG friends know that I have recently had a short trip to > Amsterdam and Barcelona. My wife had a conference in > Sitges in Catalonia and we took the opportunity to visit Amsterdam along > the way, to meet some BeneLUG folks and other RF friends. > Then we managed to catch up with Nathan and Luis in Barcelona. Our group > for an afternoon or dinner in Amsterdam was Michiel, > Philippe O, Sytze, Sander, Els and Meino. That's some LUG folks and some > Leica or Rangefinder Forum folks. > > It was a fabulous, stylish and fascinating city and meeting up with like > minded people made our visit all the more enjoyable. > > Sander recounted a tragic tale involving a tsunami and sunken Leicas, then > showed me his M8 and WATE. I took the challenge and shot > a couple of frames at 16mm on my M7. Don't need no steenkin' finder. My > wife who was inadvertently in profile at the edge of the > frames, has vetoed the 16mm shots from publication. Meino and Elsje proved > to be charming, friendly and talented people. You can see > some of their work on-line here www.innerside.demon.nl > <http://www.innerside.demon.nl/> . Meino's pictures for the day improved > considerably once he placed film in his M and Els was shooting with a film > SLR (the N type!). Sytze was a funny and friendly man, > shooting a Contax G2 and displaying a very Australian style sense of > humour! Efforts by Sytze and Michiel to improve my Dutch > language skills were not all together successful. When I learn my next > word it will double my vocabulary there. > > > > My Amsterdam gallery starts below. This is all with the M7, the Summilux > asph 50 and the Summicron asph 28. The colour shots are > from the Provias (100F, 400F) and the bw is all Neopan 400 in dilute XTOL. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/1/a01.jpg.html > > http://tinyurl.com/24yw4u > > > > Comments and critiques are always welcomed. > > Cheers, > > Hoppy > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information