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Subject: [Leica] IMG: The last from New Zealand
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:56:34 +0100
References: <51506964.8080604@jayburleson.com> <D950ABC2-C79D-484A-BA4D-BABBEBF868B0@sfr.fr> <5150CB9B.3000708@jayburleson.com>

Thanks for sharing the info Jay

Looks it was a long winding road in both cases.

But beautiful places and views taken with taste :-)

Keep them coming

Amiti?s
Philippe


Le 25 mars 13 ? 23:11, Jay Burleson a ?crit :

> Thank you!
> The cross is a stained glass memorial to local fallen Maori men from  
> Word War I.
> The plaque underneath, in Maori,  says something like "show  
> commemoration of many battles", and a dedication to Tumatauenga, the  
> Maori God of War and Balance. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumatauenga 
> ), along with a poem in both Maori & English.
> "They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
> Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
> At the going down of the sun and in the morning
> We will remember them."
>
> And yes, that is the Southern Alps.
> Taken on the road into Mt. Cook National Park, which is the tallest  
> mtn. in New Zealand, and where Edmund Hillary learned to climb.
> Mt. Cook (or Aoraki, in the native language) is the mtn. on the  
> right side of the photo, behind the hill on the right edge.
>
> Jay
>
> On 3/25/2013 2:31 PM, philippe.amard wrote:
>> Very clean photos Jay
>>
>> What's the incipit/ex voto in the first one referring to?
>>
>> And is the second one what some call the Southern ALps? It looks  
>> beautiful and is so new to me, really, could be Switzerland on an  
>> fine day.
>>
>> Amiti?s
>> Philippe
> NO ARCHIVE
>>
>> Le 25 mars 13 ? 16:12, Jay Burleson a ?crit :
>>
>>> I may discover more, but here are the last two that I like:
>>>
>>> http://jayburleson.com/leica/gallery/index.php/New-Zealand/41_stained_glass
>>>
>>> http://jayburleson.com/leica/gallery/index.php/New-Zealand/ 
>>> 40_mt_cook
>>>
>>> Thanks for looking and all comments are welcome!
>
> -- 
> Jay,
>
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> looking for something that can't be found.
> The photograph is the record of that attempt."
>
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