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Subject: [Leica] IMG: PAW 41 dlridings
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Mon Oct 15 20:08:35 2007
References: <471353EA.3090503@dlridings.se>

The first is a nice strong shot of Ewa!

Jim

Daniel Ridings wrote:

> Rolleiflex and M3 this week. Ewa and I took a walk out to a point on 
> Onsala peninsula. It was the point where the pilots would have their 
> watch to lead ships through the archipelago into G?teborg. A silly song 
> by the who kept going through my mind ... "I can see for miles ..."
> 
> http://www.dlridings.se/paw/2007/41.html
> 
> The day after we took a long walk through the heath.
> 
> http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/2006v41/07v41-0007.jpg.html
> http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/2006v41/07v41-0005.jpg.html
> 
> Oh yes, I forgot about the pirate's (legal pirate, serving the king) 
> sarcofag from the early 1700's (1711 or so):
> 
> http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/2006v41/07v41-0001.jpg.html
> 
> Lars Gathenhielm. His wife is lying next to him. He died at 29 and each 
> sarcofag (out of white marble) cost 22,000 riksdaler back then (daler = 
> the historical word that "dollar" comes from, I think. Tollar in 
> Slovenien). That would be a lot of money today, it was an enormous sum 
> back then. All for a corpse. What a waste.
> 
> Square with a Rolleiflex T and the rest with M3 50/2.8 Elmar.
> 
> Daniel


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