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Subject: Re: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 17 substitute - London snaps
From: kiklaas@iinet.net.au
Date: 30 Apr 2002 02:38:02 -0000

Nathan, you were on the rollercoaster and took the picture?

That would be a challenge for me on it's own so good catch,I can't even 
read on a bus......

We have a small yacht(22ft)and need drugs just to be on it while docked in 
the pen..(LOL)

Karina


> (I am cross-posting it to the Rollei list due to Rollei content)
> 
> Last week I did not take any pictures. My dog was hit by a car and is
> still in the hospital; immediately after the accident she was in shock
> and instinctively bit my right hand, which is now swollen and taped up
> so I can  photograph only with the greatest difficulty. And frankly, my
> mind is not into it. So instead I am cheating (but at least admitting
> it) by posting ten pictures from the last 3-4 trips to London. While
> none of them were taken last week, they are all very recent, from late
> March until the week before last, so I hope to be forgiven.
> 
> At the end of March I took the family to London for a long weekend;
> since this was a vacation, I did not have to drag along business attire
> and papers+notebook, so I was able to take my Leicas and use them. One
> of the days I took the children to Legoland Windsor while my wife was
> let loose in the shops, and the first three inages are from there:
> 
> http://www.wajsman.com/2002_17.jpg
> http://www.wajsman.com/2002_17alt1.jpg
> 
> Both of these rollercoaster shots with Leica M6+24mm Elmarit on Fuji
> Provia 100F.
> 
> The next shot of a balloon vendor is also from Legoland Windsor, with
> the 35mm Summilux:
> 
> http://www.wajsman.com/2002_17alt2.jpg
> 
> The remaining pictures are taken during business trips to London in
> April, and hence with my preferred pocket camera, the Rollei 35. The
> more I use it, the more I like this little jewel.
> 
> One of my business partners in London is a member of the Athenaeum Club.
> It is one of the old, very traditional gentleman's clubs (although it
> does admit women nowadays). Anyone who has ever walked from Picadilly
> Circus to Trafalgar Square will recognise this statue, but few have had
> a chance to photograph it from the vantage point of the club's balcony:
> http://www.wajsman.com/2002_17alt3.jpg
> Inside, this is the drawing room of the Athenaeum:
> http://www.wajsman.com/2002_17alt4.jpg
> Both of these images on Agfa Scala.
> 
> The next shot is from one of my homes away from home, a pub in North
> London (Finchley Road). The Underground runs only about 1 metre beneath
> the bar, and the passing trains can be felt and heard.
> 
> http://www.wajsman.com/2002_17alt5.jpg
> (Rollei 35, Ilford Delta 3200)
> 
> As with most big cities, the most interesting part of London it its
> diversity of people. Here is one of the many buskers, with a somewhat
> unique choice of instrument, taken outside the HMV shop on Picadilly. I
> especially liked the symmetry between his traffic cone and the HMV logo
> on the door:
> 
> http://www.wajsman.com/2002_17alt6.jpg
> (Rollei 35, Kodak Supra 400)
> 
> When I am around famous landmarks, I usually look more at the people
> than at the building. Here is a Japanese tourist photographing St.
> Paul's Cathedral:
> 
> http://www.wajsman.com/2002_17alt7.jpg
> (Rollei 35, Agfa Scala)
> 
> I almost always stay in a cheap hotel near Finchley Road. Since this is
> a traditional English hotel, the coffee is terrible, so I usually stop
> at a proper coffee shop next to the tube station to get my central
> nervous system up and running. The last time I met this nice lady with a
> cat. It turned out that she was a volunteer with a charity, visiting
> nursing homes and the like to provide the residents with much needed pet
> contact (for more info, see: http://www.petsastherapy.org/). So she and
> her cat were just getting ready to go to work:
> 
> http://www.wajsman.com/2002_17alt8.jpg
> (Rollei 35, Agfa Scala)
> 
> And finally, these two vendors at the Covent Garden market. This is not
> a posed shot, they were really having their conversation in this way,
> although I did ask for permission to photograph them (as was the case
> with the cat lady):
> 
> http://www.wajsman.com/2002_17alt9.jpg
> (Rollei 35, Agfa Scala)
> 
> The complete PAW site is at:
> http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm
> and comments/critique are welcome and appreciated as always.
> 
> Nathan
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> Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland
> 
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> mobile: +41 78 732 1430
> 
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> General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm
> 
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