[Leica] Africa continued

[richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)]

WHat's Hi-Ko Take Away?

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Back to the Africa shots.
>
> In Namibia, many roadside stalls sell little souvenirs.  This:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/img212a.jpg.html
> was a Herero one.
>
> In Outjo, I had a conversation with a Himba woman that culminated in
> me taking some photos in return for a water bottle.  This is one shot
> where the bokeh of the 35 Summilux asph disturbs me:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/img227a.jpg.html
> I really don't like the way the lines in the background double up.
>
> In Swakopmund I saw an unusual giraffe:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/img479a.jpg.html
>
> The stone crosses at Cape Cross:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/img507a.jpg.html
> were erected by Portuguese settlers in the 16th century.  The senorita
> is of a newer vintage.
>
> In the house where I grew up there was a chair called "the chair that
> nobody sits on".  In the laundromat in Swakopmund there was a nice
> chair:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/img716a.jpg.html
> when I asked the proprietress about it she reported no one sits in
> that chair, but not because of bad luck or some other reason I thought
> might have been likely but because it was very uncomfortable.
> Sometimes parsimony reigns.
>
> Marty
>
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