[Leica] More Travel Photos

[philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)]

Le 27 mai 11 ? 16:49, Jayanand Govindaraj a ?crit :

>
> 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
>

But where's the TV set ?
;-)
It reminds me of people going to an open air concert in Ravinia and  
having a carload of picknick equipment with them, including  
chandeliers and ... box (to watch the concert live I presume)

Nice take anyway.

> 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
>

Bien vu !
And the lines suit the photo well

Thanks for sharing these souvenirs Jayanand.

Amiti?s
Philippe


> C&C, as ever, welcome
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
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