Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wonderful series, Hoppy. It was one of the most beautiful october days ever when you were in Amsterdam, and you captured that day perfectly. Very good B&W too: good tones, nice contrast, sharp, and beautiful bokeh at the right times. Great protraits of Michiel and an extremely strong color shot: "I know I left it here somewhere" (good title, too :-) I think I need a haircut though ;-) Thanks for showing, Philippe Op 3-nov-07, om 14:21 heeft G Hopkinson het volgende geschreven: > 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 > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/> http://gallery.leica- > users.org/v/gh/a/ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >