Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Daniel, Your reportage from home or elsewhere gives me a quiet sense of place, so that if I went the places you have gone all would be familiar. Even the plaque showing M3 blood was spilled here. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 10/24/05, Daniel Ridings <dlridings@gmail.com> wrote: > > After three weeks of not sleeping in my own bed, I'm finally home. > > It all started with the unavoidable, boring wait in Amsterdam for a > flight down south: > > http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/40.html > > (M2 50/2.0 Summicron) > > I arrived in Harare with about 30 portraits of staff at The Feathers > that I had taken in June. They were thrilled --- the 30 who got > portraits --- but they are more than 30 who work there. A moved > manager asked if I could possibly take more so that everyone would get > one. The full-length was important and by request (every single time). > Here's one: > > http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/41.html > > (M2 50/2.0 Summicron, Fujicolor Xtra 400) > > We had a 10 o'clock meeting in Masvingo (a couple of hundred > kilometers south of Harare). We drove down after work the day before. > At 6 am we had time to climb up to the Great Zimbabwe. Here is the > Great Enclosure: > > http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/41alt1.html > > (As above, but with a 21/4.0 Color-Skopar) > > I've become used to the junkies who camp out close to where I stay > when I'm in Oslo. They were one of the first impressions I had as I > headed for my quarters. The next morning I walked by again and found > this: > > http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/42.html > > (As above, but with a 35/2.0 Summicron) > > Faithful to my habits, when I really, really got home, I headed for the > sea: > > http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/42alt1.html > > http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/42alt2.html > > Both with a Rolleiflex T and Neopan 400. > > Now if I can just convince my stomach that we're home, we're really home > now. > > Daniel > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >