Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've never done any diving there. I am aware of the drift diving aspect, which I admit I am not that fond of. I worked as a divemaster for several years in the Caribbean some time ago- early 1990's- and do a bit of cave diving in North Florida these days, when I am in the US. I'd like to do more ocean diving and I have my mind on doing some cave photography in Florida as there aren't many people doing that sort of thing. A niche within a niche, so to speak :) There's some very good cave diving in France not far from where your recent Minervois photographs were done. Wendy On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Marc Dufour <foto at marcdufour.net> wrote: > Maldives.... !! > Hum... good place for diving, aside some currents, of course ;-) > Did you go there previuolsy? > Marc > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendy Thurman" <wendythurman at > gmail.com > > > > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 3:13 PM > > Subject: Re: [Leica] PESO: Tour Guide > > > He was spot on. Particularly this part: >> >> "...Who travel in groups and herds and troupes >> Of varying breeds and sexes >> Till the whole world reels to shouts and squeals >> And the clicking of Roliflexes." >> >> The recent trip I took to Provence was an organized "workshop". With the >> exception of the Cours in Arles I didn't really enjoy it at all and felt >> like the characiture of a Japanese tourist; it was actually embarrassing >> at >> times. A horde of people, heavily armed with cameras, being lectured to, >> herded about, told to be at place X no later than time Y, and such other >> distractions. This is not a good way to spend one's time off and I won't >> do >> it again. >> >> Next break is going to be the Maldives on my own or perhaps with one dive >> buddy. >> >> Wendy >> >> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Jim Shulman <jshul at comcast.net> wrote: >> >> Jim, >>> >>> Noel Coward had the answer: >>> >>> Travel they say improves the mind, >>> An irritating platitude, which frankly, entre nous, >>> Is very far from true. >>> >>> Personally I've yet to find that longtitude and latitude >>> can educate those scores of monumental bores >>> Who travel in groups and herds and troupes >>> Of varying breeds and sexes >>> Till the whole world reels to shouts and squeals >>> And the clicking of Roliflexes. >>> >>> Why do the wrong people travel, travel, travel >>> When the right people stay back home? >>> What compulsion compels them and who the hell tells them >>> To drag their bags to Zanzibar, instead of staying quietly in Omaha >>> The Taj Mahal and the Grand Canal >>> And the sunny French Rivera >>> Would be less oppressed if the Middle West >>> Would settle for somewhere rather nearer >>> Please do not think that I criticize or cavel at a genuine urge to roam >>> But why, oh why do the wrong people travel when the right people stay >>> back >>> home >>> And mind their business >>> when the right people stay back home >>> with television >>> when the right people stay back home >>> I'm merely asking >>> why the right people stay back home >>> >>> Just when you think romance is ripe it rather sharply dawns on you >>> That each sweet serenade is for the tourist trade >>> Any attractive native type who resolutely fawns on you >>> Will give as his address American Express >>> There isn't a rock between Bangkok and the beaches of Hispianola >>> That does not recoil from suntan oil and the gurgle of Coca-Cola >>> >>> Why do the wrong people travel, travel travel >>> When the right people stay back home? >>> What explains this mass mania to leave Pennsylvania >>> And clack around like flocks of geese >>> Demanding dry martinis on the isles of Greece >>> In the smallest street, where the gourmets meet, >>> They invariably fetch up >>> And it's hard to make them accept a steak >>> that isn't served rare and smeared with ketchup >>> It would take years to unravel, ravel, ravel >>> Every impulse that makes them roam. >>> But why, oh why do the wrong people travel when the right people stay >>> back >>> home >>> And eat hot doughnuts >>> when the right people stay back home >>> with all that lettuce >>> when the right people stay back home >>> I sometimes wonder >>> why the right people stay back home >>> >>> Why do the wrong people travel, travel travel >>> When the right people stay back home? >>> What peculiar obsessions inspire those processions >>> Of families from Houston Tex >>> with all those cameras around their necks? >>> They will take a train >>> Or an aeroplane >>> For an hour on the Costa Brava, >>> And they'll see Pompeii >>> On the only day >>> That it's up to its ass in molten lava! >>> Millions of tourists are churning up the gravel >>> While they gaze at St. Peter's Dome, >>> But why oh WHY do the wrong people travel >>> When the right people stay at home." >>> and play canasta >>> when the right people stay back home >>> won't someone tell me >>> why the right people stay back home >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net at leica-users.org >>> [mailto:lug-bounces+jshul <lug-bounces%2Bjshul> <lug-bounces%2Bjshul>= >>> comcast.net@ >>> leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jim >>> Nichols >>> Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 10:43 PM >>> To: Leica Users Group >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] PESO: Tour Guide >>> >>> Good photo, Jim, but I don't see a happy visitor anywhere. Why do people >>> punish themselves like this? >>> >>> Jim Nichols >>> Tullahoma, TN USA >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Jim Shulman" <jshul at comcast.net> >>> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 8:18 PM >>> Subject: [Leica] PESO: Tour Guide >>> >>> >>> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/focusit/tour+guide+sm.jpg.html >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > Leica M3, Summilux 50, Efke 50 >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > Jim Shulman >>> > >>> > Wynnewood, PA >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > 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 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >