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Subject: [Leica] Lesotho bound
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 18:57:07 -0600
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Brian,  
Your photo choices sound great.  My experience with suction cup grab bars 
was that they can be problematic unless the surface is very uniform.  I 
suggest you try it out before you depend on it.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Dec 20, 2019, at 6:23 PM, Lluis Ripoll via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> Congratulations! Wonderful photo. Have lots of fun and a good trip
> Lluis
> 
> 
>> El 21 des 2019, a les 0:00, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> va 
>> escriure:
>> 
>> My niece is getting married in Lesotho on December 29.
>> https://www.theknot.com/us/naomi-glassman-and-kopano-majara-dec-2019
>> 
>> My 94-year-old mother (the bride's grandmother), who lives in Maine, 
>> wishes to attend, so I will be escorting her from York, Maine to Maliba 
>> Lodge in Lesotho via Washington Dulles, Accra, Johannesburg, and Maseru. 
>> I have arranged for wheelchairs in all of the airports and I have 
>> significant medical insurance for both of us. Also, the bride's 
>> stepfather is a principal in M?decins Sans Fronti?res and will be there.
>> 
>> I'll be gone for Christmas and for my wedding anniversary, but I'm hoping 
>> to be able to FaceTime my wife that day via my iPhone. And I hope to come 
>> back with a truckload of pictures that I will process in Lightroom 
>> Classic and Photoshop CS6
>> 
>> Lesotho is so beautiful that I'm sure I will break my personal rule and 
>> take landscape pictures in addition to pictures of people. I've got my 
>> Q2, four 1733X 128GB SD cards, a USB charger for the Q2 batteries, two 
>> Steri-pens, plenty of loperamide, my MacBook, two USB-C external hard 
>> drives (not to be kept in the same place), and some clothes. Also various 
>> folding canes, suction-cup shower grab bars, and a gait belt.
>> 
>> I've photographed more than 100 weddings, but never before with a 28mm 
>> lens. We shall see what happens.
>> 
>> The groom's parents speak only Sesotho, but the bride (my niece Naomi) 
>> speaks a dozen languages fluently, one of which is Sesotho. I've learned 
>> to read it a little bit and have learned enough of the spoken language to 
>> know that "Maliba" is pronounced "muh-DEE-bah".
>> 
>> Today I've been preparing the inscription for a Sesotho-language bible 
>> that our family is going to give the groom's parents at the wedding. The 
>> inscription says
>> 
>> 
>> Bibele ena ke mpho ea lelapa la bo Kopano Majara ho tsoa ho lelapa la bo 
>> Naomi Glassman ka lenyalo la Kopano le Naomi.
>> 
>> E fanoa ke lelapa la bo Naomi ho tsoa USA.  Elizabeth, nkhono oa Naomi, 
>> 
>>    Le
>> 
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>> Dwayne, Dwayne, Elizabeth, Elizabeth, Ethan, Garrett, Georgia, Glenn, 
>> Grace, Harvey, Jennifer, Joanne, Jordyn, Joyce, Katherine, Katrina, 
>> Kevin, Kristine, Levi, Loretta, Lucille, Matthew, Michael, Naomi, 
>> Nicholas, Nolan, Nora, Orson, Otto, Owen, Phillip, Roxanne, Russell, 
>> Steven, Susan, Vanessa, le Victoria
>> 
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