Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Larry, Post them, I would love to see photographs of that era from this area. Cheers Jayanand On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >