[Leica] IMG: Lluis and I at Cafe Zurich

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

I'm just back from Barcelona where my wife and I stayed for eight days. 
It was a holiday, so I didn't focus on photography. We did meet Lluis 
last Tuesday in Cafe Zurich and went for a very pleasant dinner with him 
on Wednesday evening in the Juilivert Meu. As you'll see, his cloak of 
invisibility interferes with the autofocus on the little Fuji.

I was going to bring the Sony A7ii and a few Leica lenses, but the 
practicalities of portability and the city's reputation for thievery 
helped me decide on the Fuji. On the second day, a gang of pickpockets 
got my wallet on the metro. The usual distraction first, this time by 
well dressed girls who jumped on from the left just in front of us, 
stopped dead, turned, and pretended to look at the route notice above 
the door while pressing up against us and blocking us. I felt a lighter 
touch on my right hip and, realising what was happening, grabbed a male 
arm by his left wrist, and swung him around while roaring at him and the 
group. Another one of the group then told me that my wallet was on the 
floor behind me, picked it up and handed it to me. My wife of course 
thought I was having an episode of train rage with some innocents as 
they were all so well dressed, but that was soon dispelled when other 
passengers told her they saw the thief throwing the wallet behind him to 
the floor with his right hand when I grabbed his left. The very dapper 
gang all got off at the next station with the pickpocket rubbing his arm 
and complaining about my injuring him!

After that I joined the marsupial tendency of Barcelona visitors, and 
kept everything valuable in a pouch at the front. The trip was great bar 
that one incident.

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The dangers of autofocus in the untrained hand (my wife) - meeting the 
King of Zurich in Barcelona.

http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Spain/Barcelona+2018/Lluis+Cafe+Zurich.jpg.html

Fuji X100S. Can be seen Large, but looks worse!

Douglas