[Leica] IMGs: South of France Part Two

[Jim Nichols]

You did just fine with your fixed lens camera.  Thanks for sharing.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 6/29/2019 6:14 AM, Douglas Barry wrote:
> Here's a link to the remaining photographs I took while over in 
> France. They include some from Cannes, Antibes, and from Juan-les-Pins 
> where we based ourselves. As Have-Nots, we mingled amongst the 
> Have-Yachts and discovered that indeed the rich are different: they 
> have more money...
>
> Unfortunately, I didn't bother bringing any other camera than my fixed 
> lens Fuji X100S, and the option to have fitted longer lenses would 
> have been useful, but then again it wasn't a photographic holiday, 
> more a relaxing break. So I didn't get close up photos of Roman 
> Abramovich's Eclipse - the second biggest yacht in the world, or the 
> amazing plaything of Andrey Melnichenko - Sailing Yacht A with its 300 
> feet tall masts, nor the gorgeous Talitha G owned by the Getty family 
> as all had to remain distant objects.
>
> Amusingly, we were wandering around the church and castle at the top 
> of Le Suquet and I noticed a couple of young fellows in their twenties 
> or early thirties who had Canon gear with long and heavy lenses. They 
> were taking peripheral shots of the area, so I asked them were they 
> from a camera club. They turned out to be doing establishing shots for 
> an American sports interview show hosted by someone called Bensinger 
> and were going to interview the owner of the Washington Redskins, a 
> Mr. Snyder on his brand new 305 foot yacht - the Lady S - which was 
> moored below us in Cannes harbour. While my knowledge of American 
> football is limited to the O.J. Simpson car "chase", I am interested 
> in boats, and  leaned over and took a shot, but, with a 35mm 
> equivalent lens, it looks like a speck. Anyway, it's here in this 
> group of images, so start at this one and click right.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/France/Cote+dAzur+2019/Antibes120619+Before+-+La+Joie+de+vivre+by+Picasso+at+Muse__+Picasso.jpg.html 
>
>
> Comments welcome
>
> Douglas
>
> PS some of these yachts are quite amazing and worth a google.
>
>
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