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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Lindbergh who?
From: cartersxrd at gmail.com (RicCarter)
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2021 16:26:34 -0400
References: <cf308635-f875-d0a6-57d8-d1cdd716fbce@iol.ie> <DE47283E-8E55-4C44-891C-6A493504129F@frozenlight.eu>

Lindbergh was first SOLO

ric



> On Aug 7, 2021, at 4:06 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
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> I had no idea that Lindbergh?s flight was a fake ;-) Just like Columbus?s 
> ?discovery? of America, 500 years after the Vikings had been there.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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>> On 5 Aug 2021, at 21:58, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
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>> Just back from a week down in Connemara in the west of Ireland.
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>> Here's a shot I took down there. It's a sort of homage to Herbert List's 
>> 1937 photograph.
>> 
>> A honeysuckle slip in a bottle beside the outdoor eating area of Baid?n 
>> restaurant in Clifden, Co. Galway overlooking the Atlantic. The Alcock & 
>> Brown 1919 landing site for the very first non-stop transatlantic flight 
>> is about 4km from this bottle. They flew eastwards across the ocean in a 
>> Vickers Vimy and saw what they thought was a verdant green landing strip 
>> beside the Marconi radio station. Unfortunately, it was a bog.  Luckily 
>> they weren't hurt.
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>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Honeysuckle+in+bottle.jpg.html
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>> Can be seen larger. Sony A7 and 55/1.8 Sonnar.
>> 
>> Douglas
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