[Leica] Lesotho bound

[Lluis Ripoll]

Congratulations! Wonderful photo. Have lots of fun and a good trip
Lluis


> El 21 des 2019, a les 0:00, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> va escriure:
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> My niece is getting married in Lesotho on December 29.
> https://www.theknot.com/us/naomi-glassman-and-kopano-majara-dec-2019
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> My 94-year-old mother (the bride's grandmother), who lives in Maine, wishes to attend, so I will be escorting her from York, Maine to Maliba Lodge in Lesotho via Washington Dulles, Accra, Johannesburg, and Maseru. I have arranged for wheelchairs in all of the airports and I have significant medical insurance for both of us. Also, the bride's stepfather is a principal in Médecins Sans Frontières and will be there.
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> I'll be gone for Christmas and for my wedding anniversary, but I'm hoping to be able to FaceTime my wife that day via my iPhone. And I hope to come back with a truckload of pictures that I will process in Lightroom Classic and Photoshop CS6
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> Lesotho is so beautiful that I'm sure I will break my personal rule and take landscape pictures in addition to pictures of people. I've got my Q2, four 1733X 128GB SD cards, a USB charger for the Q2 batteries, two Steri-pens, plenty of loperamide, my MacBook, two USB-C external hard drives (not to be kept in the same place), and some clothes. Also various folding canes, suction-cup shower grab bars, and a gait belt.
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> I've photographed more than 100 weddings, but never before with a 28mm lens. We shall see what happens.
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> The groom's parents speak only Sesotho, but the bride (my niece Naomi) speaks a dozen languages fluently, one of which is Sesotho. I've learned to read it a little bit and have learned enough of the spoken language to know that "Maliba" is pronounced "muh-DEE-bah".
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> Today I've been preparing the inscription for a Sesotho-language bible that our family is going to give the groom's parents at the wedding. The inscription says
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> Bibele ena ke mpho ea lelapa la bo Kopano Majara ho tsoa ho lelapa la bo Naomi Glassman ka lenyalo la Kopano le Naomi.
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> E fanoa ke lelapa la bo Naomi ho tsoa USA.  Elizabeth, nkhono oa Naomi, 
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>     Le
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