[Leica] IMG: Lindbergh who?

Jayanand Govindaraj jayanand at gmail.com
Sat Aug 7 19:21:27 PDT 2021


Well, the native "Indians" are the ones who "discovered" the Americas,
15-20k years earlier!

Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 1:37 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> I had no idea that Lindbergh’s flight was a fake ;-) Just like Columbus’s
> “discovery” of America, 500 years after the Vikings had been there.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> > On 5 Aug 2021, at 21:58, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
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> > Just back from a week down in Connemara in the west of Ireland.
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> > Here's a shot I took down there. It's a sort of homage to Herbert List's
> 1937 photograph.
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> > A honeysuckle slip in a bottle beside the outdoor eating area of Baidín
> restaurant in Clifden, Co. Galway overlooking the Atlantic. The Alcock &
> Brown 1919 landing site for the very first non-stop transatlantic flight is
> about 4km from this bottle. They flew eastwards across the ocean in a
> Vickers Vimy and saw what they thought was a verdant green landing strip
> beside the Marconi radio station. Unfortunately, it was a bog.  Luckily
> they weren't hurt.
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> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Honeysuckle+in+bottle.jpg.html
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> > Can be seen larger. Sony A7 and 55/1.8 Sonnar.
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