[Leica] Nathan's PAD 1/1/2017: welcoming 2017 in Alicante

[Jim Nichols]

Nice set.  My pick is your family "selfie".  A beautiful record of the 
evening!

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 1/1/2017 1:15 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> We celebrated the changeover with our usual group of friends, except that we were dressed nicer than usual ;-) I have selected four representative images from the evening. Even though this is designed as today’s PAD, in fact the first two images were taken last year (but within the last hour of Dec. 31st) and the other two during the first hour of January.
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> The food was contributed by all of us; some was homemade, some bought (like the foie), all delicious:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-QncKLFm/A <http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-QncKLFm/A>
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> Iñaki and Elio get ready to open the champagne just before midnight. In Spain, the toast is made a few minutes AFTER midnight; during the actual changeover (i.e. as the clock strikes midnight), we eat the “uvas de suerte”, (grapes of luck), one grape for each strike of the bell.
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-qhtjBkh/A <http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-qhtjBkh/A>
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> A portrait of yours truly and his two women. It is a selfie, but not with a phone—I used the Ricoh GR which does double duty as my cycling camera and party camera:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-jnmNtWk/A <http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-jnmNtWk/A>
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> And finally my favourite image of the evening, channelling Philippe and his fuzzylogics. I like it because, despite (or perhaps because of) its lack of sharpness, it conveys the atmosphere better than any of the other photos I shot:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-KsSNMbq/A <http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-KsSNMbq/A>
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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