Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Congratulations Alastair - well deserved. Use it in good health. P. ******* Paul Hardy Carter +44 (0)20 3239 9573 www.paulhardycarter.com www.lightstalkers.org/phc Skype: paulhardycarter ******* On 20 Aug 2008, at 13:46, 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information