Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gary, Ric, George, Paul Thanks for looking Cheers Jayanand On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 1:11 AM, PHC <lug at paulhardycarter.com> wrote: > The first one's a cracking picture! > > P. > > Paul Hardy Carter > www.paulhardycarter.com > www.theconstanteye.com > www.twitter.com/paulhardycarter > Skype: paulhardycarter > Location and Directions > Mobile: +44 (0)75 4018 1784 > Studio: +44 (0)20 7277 0778 > > > > > > > > On 27 May 2011, at 15:49, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > > 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 >> >> 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 >> >> C&C, as ever, welcome >> >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >