Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jayanand, I was scheduled to give a couple of lectures in Madras and I escaped for a side tour to Kanchipuram for a couple of days. I took a number of architecture shots and a few of pilgrimage processions but they hardly meet LUG standards. If I post a couple on the LUG, you have to promise to be gentle. Most were taken with a Rollei 35 with its fixed 40mm lens and guess focus. It's an admirable camera as a backup, a role which it served for almost a year after my top ranked SLR (whose name began with "N") crapped out in monsoon heat and humidity. One time, as I was aiming my camera, a monk came up to me and asked what film and exposure I was using. Obviously a closet photographer. It turned out that he had studied philosophy at Yale on a scholarship and had returned to India to practice his true calling. Then he escorted me on a guided tour to see the pornographic sculptures hidden in the back of the temple. It was the high point of my visit. Larry Z - - - - - - Larry, Thanks - it is very close to home - just 1.5 hours away. It is the city of temples - did you get pilgrim/architecture shots? Cheers Jayanand On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com >wrote: Jayanand, The picture was taken in Kanchipuram. Larry Z