Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sounds like a truly amazing trip! Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > On 21 Dec 2019, at 00:00, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote: > > 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 > > Alexander, Allyson, Andrea, Benjamin, Brian, Bruce, Carl, Cora, Daniel, > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information