Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Ted, Thanks for kind words /blush ;-)/ My schedule for the trip was something like this: - land at Heathrow around noon on Wednesday - meet a business associate from 1.45 to 3.30 at Atheneum Club in central London - go to my hotel on Russel Square afterwards, check e-mail and change into jeans - go out for a walk in the city, have some beer and dinner, then back to hotel at 10 p.m. - Thursday morning, walk to the office; stay in office until about 5 p.m. - tube to Paddington, Heathrow Express to the airport, fly home Most of the pictures were taken while out and about Wednesday evening, and while going from one place to another. Cheers, Nathan Ted Grant wrote: > Nathan Wajsman offered..... "silk purses!" ;-) > Subject: [Leica] IMG: Nathan's PAW 24: moving around London > > >>> This week's pictures are all from my brief visit to London on >>> > Wednesday and Thursday. The only camera I had with me was the Ricoh > GRD, so I had to live within its limitations. With some of the high > ISO images (800) it is a bit of a case of trying to make a silk purse > out of sow's ear, but I tried. The results are here: > http://www.fotocycle.dk:80/paws/?page_id=88<<<< > > Nathan Mon Ami, > Once again you've broken the rule of making silk purses out of a sows ear! > :-) > > As these photos of real time moments appear made of fine silk than a > skinned > sows ear.! ;-) Proving once again, it's the human operating the camera, > than > just the camera. > > This also illustrates the fallacy some people believe, that shooting with a > Leica creates the be all to end all photographs. A true fallacy as you've > shown time and time again! > > Add to that you walk about while on business and still manage to come back > with winners others would spend a day roaming London and not have anything > like it at all. Obviously they may also shoot your buns off in that > city.;-) > Not likely! :-) > > Good on you! > ted > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands *Opportunistic Image Acquisition* General photography: http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com http://www.greatpix.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS!