Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/17

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Subject: [Leica] opening bell
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu Jun 17 20:09:37 2004

>snippet<
> 
> Kirimati is big enough to have two hotels and air service.
> Despite its being a former British nuclear test site, it
> is now safe in terms of radiation hazard. There is a lot
> of cast-off military hardware littering the edges of the
> island, but it serves more as a replacement for pandanus
> leaves in the roofs of huts than as a danger. Piles of
> rusting scrap metal serve as landmarks.
> 
> There is spectacular fishing for bonefish on the shallow
> sand flats around the island.  It's slow film country; the
> light is incredibly intense, being very near the equator.
> 


Is the hardware all melted and the fish flipping around in the trees?
Big turtles crossing deserts?



ref: "Mondo cane" (1962)





Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/




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