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Subject: [Leica] I won a prize!
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2015 21:21:20 +0100
References: <38234A03-5286-4040-B567-44873843461A@bex.net> <55BBF043.1090101@summaventures.com> <9EE61068-505D-4511-BCA8-F01EB2DECAF5@bex.net> <B0CAA168-32A8-486F-8E6D-2097F4FC1BF6@gmail.com> <04A6D2D6-3F54-48ED-8A96-61067E265ECB@bex.net>

Sorry should have typed "July"

Peter

On 01/08/2015 01:45, Howard Ritter wrote:
> Ah, another LUGger who?s been there! We should get up a reunion for peak 
> lavender 2016.
> 
> ?howard
> 
> 
>> On Jul 31, 2015, at 7:07 PM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> totally agree, about Senanque and the sony
>>
>>
>> steve
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> Steve Barbour
>>
>> On Jul 31, 2015, at 4:01 PM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:
>>
>> Peter? 
>>
>> Oh, for heaven?s sake! Where is your house? I?m so envious! If I?d known, 
>> I?d surely have visited. I like the area so much that I just got back 
>> from my second visit to the Abbey. The photo is from 2012, when my wife 
>> and I took an 11-day tour of ?Roman Provence?. And my son and I just 
>> spent 16 days in Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, and France. It was 
>> the partial implementation of a longtime dream vacation for me, to pick 
>> up a new BMW in Munich and then tour Europe, driving wherever the whim 
>> takes me. Of course, ideally my traveling companion would be my wife, and 
>> the trip would be a couple of months, spring into summer or summer into 
>> fall, but two weeks of father-son bonding was a good trial run. I went 
>> back to S?nanque both to show Philip the place and to try to catch the 
>> lavender in bloom. When we were there the first time, it was late May and 
>> there were no flowers, explaining the green color in the photo. Too early 
>> for even a hint of lavender color. T
 
 his tri
p happened a month later in the year, but there was only a disappointing bit 
of bloom, probably still before the peak. Tell me the best time to come next 
year and I?ll meet up if you?re there!
>>
>> The online reproduction is quite faithful to the original, where the 
>> stone is indeed a bit washed out, as you can see from where I posted it 
>> in the Gallery:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/France/ 
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/France/>
>>
>> I took it with my favorite travel-light camera, the Sony NEX-7. I?m not 
>> sure that any camera would have done better without histogram peeping and 
>> manual exposure compensation, since the dynamic range extended from the 
>> shadow side of trees on the left to pale stone facing the noon sun on the 
>> right, completely filling the histogram. Certainly, I have been mightily 
>> impressed by the capabilities of the NEX-7, even with the kit zoom, and 
>> will be first in line to get its full-frame, curved-sensor, 50-MPx 
>> successor (speculation mine!) Other photos in the album were made with 
>> the M9. 
>>
>> ?howard
>>
>>
>>> On Jul 31, 2015, at 6:01 PM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Howard,
>>>
>>> When were you there? I have a house just a few km away and would have 
>>> been
>>> delighted to meet up if I was down there.
>>>
>>> You did much better than 2nd - as I read it you tied for first because 
>>> the
>>> judges couldn't decide.
>>>
>>> C&C: What camera did you use? The stone looks a bit washed out and the 
>>> lavender
>>> looks an unusual shade of green. Is it the same in the original, ie is 
>>> it their
>>> reproduction?
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> On 30/07/2015 23:17, Howard Ritter wrote:
>>
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Dr Peter Dzwig                          



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