[Leica] St. Emilion Memories

[Nathan Wajsman]

Lovely. I made my first visit to the town in 1998 and have been back a few times since.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman

Alicante, Spain
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> On 06 May 2015, at 18:41, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Corrected url for my shot:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bob+Baron/StEmilion1997.jpg.html
> 
> And I can't figure out how that happened.
> 
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Recent photographs posted bring back certain memories, as so many things
>> do:  In April of 1997 we had the use of a house in a 'commune' (probably
>> too small to be called a 'village', and we were told the mayor was a
>> communist) about 20 minutes by car southeast of the village of St. Emilion.
>> 
>> Douglas Barry's photograph at
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Bordeaux2014_St-Emilion_View1.jpg.html
>> shows a tower in the background, known as the Royal Tower or Tower of the
>> King or something similar; if you climb to the top you can as I did, take a
>> photograph of a view much beloved in travel magazines:
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Bordeaux2014_St-Emilion_View1.jpg.html
>> 
>> This was scanned some time ago from a C-41 negative (probably Kodak Royal
>> Gold) made with a Leitz-Minolta CL, my only camera at the time.  (When I
>> finally sent it to Sherry Krauter for a CLA after this trip she said the
>> shutter was way off, which probably explained why so many of my shots were
>> blurry.
>> 
>> Memories.....
>> 
>> --Bob
>> 
> 
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