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Subject: [Leica] IMG: New Hoppy travelogue part two, Amsterdam
From: michiel.fokkema at wanadoo.nl (Michiel Fokkema)
Date: Sat Nov 3 11:32:15 2007
References: <003401c81e1c$6270b410$6401a8c0@asus930>

Hi Geof,

Good pictures. You really managed to photograph me without me looking 
too silly:-)
I really like the Neopan pictures. Maybe I should change from trix to 
neopan.
I'm almost done scanning mine and hope to post them soon. Busy busy.

Cheers,

Michiel Fokkema

G Hopkinson 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
> 
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/
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