Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/05/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Corrected url for my shot: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bob+Baron/StEmilion1997.jpg.html And I can't figure out how that happened. On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> wrote: > Recent photographs posted bring back certain memories, as so many things > do: In April of 1997 we had the use of a house in a 'commune' (probably > too small to be called a 'village', and we were told the mayor was a > communist) about 20 minutes by car southeast of the village of St. Emilion. > > Douglas Barry's photograph at > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Bordeaux2014_St-Emilion_View1.jpg.html > shows a tower in the background, known as the Royal Tower or Tower of the > King or something similar; if you climb to the top you can as I did, take a > photograph of a view much beloved in travel magazines: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Bordeaux2014_St-Emilion_View1.jpg.html > > This was scanned some time ago from a C-41 negative (probably Kodak Royal > Gold) made with a Leitz-Minolta CL, my only camera at the time. (When I > finally sent it to Sherry Krauter for a CLA after this trip she said the > shutter was way off, which probably explained why so many of my shots were > blurry. > > Memories..... > > --Bob >