[Leica] Highlands PAW 41

[Douglas Barry]

John,  I've just had a look at your images from Malta - no inside 
stories on bombed journalists, nor reflections on foreign interference 
on Maltese domestic issues, so that was disappointing, but the rest were 
wonderful. I have to report that we have something in common with you in 
that we have someone dear to us who is Maltese: voluble and opinionated, 
she is our gardener. She strides through my horticultural hopes 
contemptuously kicking aspirational planting into the wide blue yonder. 
I sometimes wonder will I be left with ere a daisy. Is this a general 
Maltese trait, I ask?

Tonight was my birthday, so I celebrated with forty other people who 
didn't realise it was my birthday and enjoyed some of the finer wines 
from Bordeaux as the Bordelais vignerons still know how to make wine 
whereas the Leica cameraeons have forgotten how to make cameras. Thambar 
- how are you?  In truth, it was one of the dinners for my Bordeaux wine 
club. Aside from the starter white, we had various reds, in this order, 
'09 Ch. Milens, '98 Ch. Montrose, '98 Ch. Cos d'Estournel, then two 
sweet Sauternes a '76 Raymond Lafon' and finally '08 Ch. Rayne Vigneau. 
I didn't bring a camera, but I'd recommend the '08 Rayne Vigneau if 
you're a dab hand at a dexterous creme brulee and want to recreate a 
mise en scene of utter voluptuousness.

Douglas




On 19/10/2017 20:57, John McMaster wrote:
> Not really in the Highlands, no clouds!  Spent a week in Malta (Karen is half Maltese and spent the first part of her life there), so as in a city my PAW is back its old style ;-)
>
> http://johnmcmaster.com/PAW/2017/41
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> Here is a panorama of the Three Cities from the Upper Barrakka Gardens
>
> http://johnmcmaster.com/PESO/Panoramas/pano_20171010_Valletta.jpg
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> We stayed in Birgu and knew that the Festival of Light was to be held when we were there, the street lights are turned off and just candle light illuminates (or not) the streets.  For the first time in years I did not take any M kit with me, 'just' S(007) and four lenses (24, 45,70 and 120, equivalent to 19, 35, 56 and 96) - still weighs ~9kg so that is the downside.  Lenses are about two stops slower than my M lenses (although still faster than zoom lenses), however it is far better at high ISO than my M(240) and some of these shots are at 12,800.
>
> Some more general vies from Malta
> http://johnmcmaster.com/PESO/2017Malta
>
> C & C welcome
>
> john
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