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Subject: [Leica] Dior and Leica come across
From: philippe.amard at tele2.fr (Philippe AMARD)
Date: Wed Aug 20 10:18:56 2008
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Congratulations to you Alastair.
A well deserved honour and price it is.
Bien amicalement de France
Phx


Alastair Firkin wrote:

>G'day all,
>
>Well, I've just come home from Melbourne. Helen and I were invited to lunch 
>at Vue De Monde in Melbourne to celebrate the Dior/Leica photographic 
>competition. The bonus as some of you know is that I won, and so there was 
>a wonderful presentation of an engraved Leica Black M8, complete with 
>"filterless" 35mm Summarit. Dior was host, and we were entertained by 
>Mette, Kate and Isabelle, who hail from Denmark, Queensland and France. 
>Leica were represented by the local dealers here in Australia by Brian the 
>CEO and Carl (who knows me well!!!) 
>
>The "team" made it feel very special. I was very honored and a bit 
>embarrassed, but it was great fun and the conversation was lively and never 
>slowed. The food was great and combined with fine French wine it was a 
>"long" lunch to remember. In addition, Dior threw in perfume for Helen and 
>samples of the Fahrenheit range for me. Adeal threw in Leica badges. I took 
>some images with the new camera, and you can soon see whose black outfit is 
>synthetic. I think the girls will prefer the images Helen made with Olympus 
>:-( Purple is NOT the new black. However, seems with the new camera, I get 
>2 more filters, so one will have to be E39!!!
>
>Wonderful event, lots of fun. I recommend winning a Dior Leica competition 
>if you get the chance ;-)
>
>Cheers to all
>
>Alastair
>
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In reply to: Message from afirkin at afirkin.com (Alastair Firkin) ([Leica] Dior and Leica come across)