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Subject: [Leica] PAW 40, 41, 42 dlridings
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Sun Oct 30 14:51:50 2005
References: <a2f8f4470510240228l1aef6c50t399940ff73cf6029@mail.gmail.com>

Daniel,
Your reportage from home or elsewhere gives me a quiet sense of place, so
that if I went the places you have gone all would be familiar. Even the
plaque showing M3 blood was spilled here.
 Don
don.dory@gmail.com

 On 10/24/05, Daniel Ridings <dlridings@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> After three weeks of not sleeping in my own bed, I'm finally home.
>
> It all started with the unavoidable, boring wait in Amsterdam for a
> flight down south:
>
> http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/40.html
>
> (M2 50/2.0 Summicron)
>
> I arrived in Harare with about 30 portraits of staff at The Feathers
> that I had taken in June. They were thrilled --- the 30 who got
> portraits --- but they are more than 30 who work there. A moved
> manager asked if I could possibly take more so that everyone would get
> one. The full-length was important and by request (every single time).
> Here's one:
>
> http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/41.html
>
> (M2 50/2.0 Summicron, Fujicolor Xtra 400)
>
> We had a 10 o'clock meeting in Masvingo (a couple of hundred
> kilometers south of Harare). We drove down after work the day before.
> At 6 am we had time to climb up to the Great Zimbabwe. Here is the
> Great Enclosure:
>
> http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/41alt1.html
>
> (As above, but with a 21/4.0 Color-Skopar)
>
> I've become used to the junkies who camp out close to where I stay
> when I'm in Oslo. They were one of the first impressions I had as I
> headed for my quarters. The next morning I walked by again and found
> this:
>
> http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/42.html
>
> (As above, but with a 35/2.0 Summicron)
>
> Faithful to my habits, when I really, really got home, I headed for the
> sea:
>
> http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/42alt1.html
>
> http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/42alt2.html
>
> Both with a Rolleiflex T and Neopan 400.
>
> Now if I can just convince my stomach that we're home, we're really home
> now.
>
> Daniel
>
>
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In reply to: Message from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] PAW 40, 41, 42 dlridings)