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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Motorbiking
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 08:43:43 -0500 (CDT)

On Tue, 1 Apr 2014 Tina Manley <images at comporium.net>wrote: 
Subject: [Leica] IMG: Motorbiking 

>PESO: 

>The tour company said that since we were "elderly", we should ride motor 
>bikes instead of hiking for the first 10 kilometers of our trek in Sapa, 
>Vietnam. The funny thing was the first 10 kilometers were by far the 
>easiest! Me on the back of the motorbike, with a helmet over my Tilley hat, 
>taking photos as we ride... 

>http://www.pbase.com/image/155063463 

>Tom took the photo with my M9 and 24/2.8 set for hyperfocal focusing! 

>Tina 
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Congrats to you, Tina, on your courage.  I ride a motorcycle, but only when 
I'm in charge.   I haven't been a passenger since the 1960's, when I decided 
never to ride on the back again.  It was too scary.


Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
(Retired)
UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
amr3 at uwm.edu
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/

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