[Leica] I won a prize!

[Howard Ritter]

Ah, another LUGger who’s been there! We should get up a reunion for peak lavender 2016.

—howard


> On Jul 31, 2015, at 7:07 PM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> wrote:
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> totally agree, about Senanque and the sony
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> steve
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> Sent from my iPhone
> Steve Barbour
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> On Jul 31, 2015, at 4:01 PM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:
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> Peter— 
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> Oh, for heaven’s sake! Where is your house? I’m so envious! If I’d known, I’d surely have visited. I like the area so much that I just got back from my second visit to the Abbey. The photo is from 2012, when my wife and I took an 11-day tour of “Roman Provence”. And my son and I just spent 16 days in Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, and France. It was the partial implementation of a longtime dream vacation for me, to pick up a new BMW in Munich and then tour Europe, driving wherever the whim takes me. Of course, ideally my traveling companion would be my wife, and the trip would be a couple of months, spring into summer or summer into fall, but two weeks of father-son bonding was a good trial run. I went back to Sénanque both to show Philip the place and to try to catch the lavender in bloom. When we were there the first time, it was late May and there were no flowers, explaining the green color in the photo. Too early for even a hint of lavender color. This trip happened a month later in the year, but there was only a disappointing bit of bloom, probably still before the peak. Tell me the best time to come next year and I’ll meet up if you’re there!
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> The online reproduction is quite faithful to the original, where the stone is indeed a bit washed out, as you can see from where I posted it in the Gallery:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/France/ <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/France/>
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> I took it with my favorite travel-light camera, the Sony NEX-7. I’m not sure that any camera would have done better without histogram peeping and manual exposure compensation, since the dynamic range extended from the shadow side of trees on the left to pale stone facing the noon sun on the right, completely filling the histogram. Certainly, I have been mightily impressed by the capabilities of the NEX-7, even with the kit zoom, and will be first in line to get its full-frame, curved-sensor, 50-MPx successor (speculation mine!) Other photos in the album were made with the M9. 
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> —howard
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>> On Jul 31, 2015, at 6:01 PM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> wrote:
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>> Howard,
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>> When were you there? I have a house just a few km away and would have been
>> delighted to meet up if I was down there.
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>> You did much better than 2nd - as I read it you tied for first because the
>> judges couldn't decide.
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>> C&C: What camera did you use? The stone looks a bit washed out and the lavender
>> looks an unusual shade of green. Is it the same in the original, ie is it their
>> reproduction?
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>> Peter
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>> On 30/07/2015 23:17, Howard Ritter wrote:
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