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Subject: [Leica] Tokyo Demonstration Wedding
From: luisripoll at telefonica.net (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 00:19:55 +0200
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Good stuff Howard, nice contrasted images
Cheers

Lluis


El 01/04/2009, a las 17:35, H&ECummer escribi?:

> Dear Luggers,
>
> More colour from our visit to Tokyo. Our son is married civilly to a  
> Japanese girl but they have not been to the Temple yet for the "Big  
> Ceremony".
> Japan is a country like no other in many ways, at least in my  
> experience. Some of the temples around Tokyo hold demonstration  
> weddings
> from time to time to entice prospective brides and grooms to come  
> along and see how the temple performs the ceremony. Our Japanese
> daughter-in-law registered us to attend one of these demonstrations  
> (which are put on every six months or so) and what follows, in
> chronological order, is a series of pictures detailing the various  
> steps in getting married at this particular temple. The bride and  
> groom are
> actors but the priests are real. We were the only gaijins there, of  
> course, and I was given free reign to take pictures.
> You just have to love Japan in so many ways!
> The pictures were all taken with the M8 and the Tri Elmar, auto ISO  
> up to 1250. Manual White Balance.
> Please have a look and enjoy:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Tokyo+Wedding/
>
> http://tinyurl.com/cerpzy
>
>
> C&C welcome as always
> Cheers
> Howard
>
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