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Subject: [Leica] More Travel Photos
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 08:36:54 +0530
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Philippe,
Thanks for looking
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:43 PM, philippe.amard <philippe.amard at 
sfr.fr>wrote:

>
> Le 27 mai 11 ? 16:49, Jayanand Govindaraj a ?crit :
>
>
>
>> A couple more from Egypt, both of which were used in Print Exchanges last
>> year.
>>
>> The first one was taken when I was lounging on my hotel balcony one
>> morning
>> when this couple arrived in a SUV at the beach below. The chauffeur then
>> carried the chairs and tables to the edge of the Mediterranean, and then
>> discreetly withdrew. Then the couple sat down, had a cup of tea (I
>> presume)
>> and enjoyed each others company for some time. It was also quite windy and
>> nippy that morning, and the whole scene was quite surreal as there was not
>> another soul on the broad beach!
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/ireland/DSC_0095.jpg.html
>>
>>
> But where's the TV set ?
> ;-)
> It reminds me of people going to an open air concert in Ravinia and having
> a carload of picknick equipment with them, including chandeliers and ... 
> box
> (to watch the concert live I presume)
>
> Nice take anyway.
>
>
>  The second one was taken in Abu Simbel - a Japanese couple doing what they
>> do when they travel - taking photographs. I am guessing they were
>> honeymooners by the way they were behaving. I was taken up by that hulking
>> 'grim reaper' looking shadow looming to the right:
>>
>> But at my back I always hear
>> Times winged chariot hurrying near
>> And yonder before us lie
>> Deserts of vast eternity
>>
>> I thought that Andrew Marvell's lines, penned to his coy mistress,
>> described
>> that scene very well, as we really were in the middle of a vast empty
>> desert
>> at this location:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/ireland/DSC_0058.jpg.html
>>
>>
> Bien vu !
> And the lines suit the photo well
>
> Thanks for sharing these souvenirs Jayanand.
>
> Amiti?s
> Philippe
>
>
>  C&C, as ever, welcome
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>>
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