Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you Lluis. Always nice to hear from you. I've been following and enjoying your postings as always; just haven't been posting regularly lately. Regards, Dick On May 24, 2010, at 4:43 PM, Lluis Ripoll Querol wrote: > Good Nathan portrait! > Cheers > Lluis > > El 24/05/2010, a las 19:50, Richard Taylor escribi?: > >> As Nathan mentioned in an earlier post, we met for the first time >> yesterday evening for dinner and drinks and had a fine time. >> >> We ate at the "No Name" restaurant across the street from his hotel. The >> "No Name" was originally a diner for the fishermen working on Fish Pier >> that, like the nearby Durgin Park restaurant, has, with redevelopment, >> become a tourist destination. When it opened in 1917 there was literally >> no sign out front identifying it and over the years it developed a >> reputation for serving the finest seafood in town. >> >> Here's Nathan showing off his new 7-14 zoom. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/BOSTON/P1010225.jpg.html >> or >> http://tinyurl.com/3yvtjab >> >> ... and the upstairs dining room at the No Name. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/BOSTON/P1010230.jpg.html >> or >> http://tinyurl.com/2d94s6a >> >> It was something of a shock to revisit this part of Boston for the first >> time in a couple of decades. If it hadn't been for the familiarity of >> the harbor I could have been anywhere. All the ramshackle old >> factories, warehouses, small restaurants, run-down piers, and parking >> lots that screamed "Boston Waterfront" have been replaced by the now >> commonplace sterile glass, steel, and brick hotels and offices; parking >> towers; and (mostly) chain restaurants. >> >> Historic Fish Pier is still there and appears still to be a working pier, >> though a suspiciously clean one to my eye, and the grundgy commercial >> fishing boats seem seriously out of place among the spanking clean >> buildings and tour boats. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/BOSTON/P1010241.jpg.html >> or >> http://tinyurl.com/27fk4cc >> >> All taken with the GF-1 and 7-14 f4.0 Lumix zoom. >> >> C&C always welcome. >> >> Regards, >> >> Dick >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information