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Subject: [Leica] Even more Adelaide photos from Brian's visit
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:38:20 -0700
References: <36172e5a0903210155s5cab6154t972f6aec7d84cc63@mail.gmail.com> <20090321224427.GUUO21373.eastrmmtao103.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> <ee8fa51c0903220437x7bf93b55jf90646f853abaa40@mail.gmail.com>

On Mar 22, 2009, at 4:37 AM, Marty Deveney wrote:

> No, but we're trying to get him to visit.  There's plenty of  
> fruitful areas
> around here for Jim's style of observation.

a very interesting comment Marty, it really got me thinking.

Is there a place in the world not fruitful for Jim's style of  
observation?
Then I  realized that it varies a lot...with some places much less  
fruitful...even in the civilized world.

we don't have to get into that right now...

but my very simplistic impression is that  the very unfruitful areas  
may be limited to third world parts of the globe...

I wonder if that is seen by veteran travelers as an  
oversimplification, somehow  unfair,


Steve



>
> Marty
>
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> My God that's an ugly dog :).  Has Jim Shulman been to Adelaide?
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
>>> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Geoff  
>>> Hopkinson
>>> Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 3:56 AM
>>> To: Leica Users Group
>>> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Even more Adelaide photos from Brian's visit
>>>
>>> Folks I have completed uploads for this gallery.
>>> I added 23 more photos, starting from this one:
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/br/41Ad.jpg.html
>>>
>>> You can see a giant Scotsman and his very large hound who had  
>>> rather bad
>>> manners,
>>> a variety of street performers, including the amazing Tallula from
>> British
>>> Columbia,
>>> martial artists
>>> at least fifty senoritas
>>> some very serious folks and some pretty silly ones
>>> Comments very welcome. There are 65 photos total in the gallery  
>>> for your
>>> entertainment
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2009/3/21 Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>> Continuing the theme, I added 11 more to my gallery, starting  
>>>> with this
>>>> one:
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/br/48Ad.jpg.html
>>>> Bar keep in the bo-ke,
>>>> Beer
>>>> Belgians
>>>> Anita spying the iPhone and making my magenta correction work  
>>>> overtime.
>>>> A very fine young gentleman wearing a Crumpler bag kangaroo  
>>>> style. I
>>> said
>>>> hi
>>>> and shook his hand.
>>>> Some kangaroos spotted in the city centre (for Brian)
>>>> Some sculptures
>>>>
>>>> Comments welcome
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2009/3/21 Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>>> If you'd told me my balance was good enough to do what I'm doing  
>>>>> in
>>> that
>>>>> first shot I'd have laughed at you.  All my shots of the ducks
>>> (Pacific
>>>>> black ducks - *Anas superciliosa*) are garbage.  Got my shirt  
>>>>> dirty
>>> for
>>>>> nothing.
>>>>>
>>>>> These ones are okay and you're not talking:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> http://gallery.leica-
>>> users.org/v/freakscene/LuG/geoff+and+bonython+hall.jpg.html
>>>>> flare in this one courtesy of my very flarey 35/1.4 asph
>>>>>
>>>> http://gallery.leica-
>>> users.org/v/freakscene/LuG/geoff+in+the+park.jpg.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Also yum cha + beer at Saldechin:
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-
>>> users.org/v/freakscene/LuG/yum+cha+_+beer.jpg.html
>>>>> Anita continuing to be fascinated by the iPhone thing:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> http://gallery.leica-
>>> users.org/v/freakscene/LuG/entranced+by+technology.jpg.html
>>>>> Us reflected in BErt Flugelman's Spheres, better known as Rundle
>>> Mall's
>>>>> Balls:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> http://gallery.leica-
>>> users.org/v/freakscene/LuG/us_+influenced+by+flugelman.jpg.html
>>>>> Proof that the iPhone is better than local knowledge:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> http://gallery.leica-
>>> users.org/v/freakscene/LuG/iPhone+knew+exactly+where+we 
>>> +were.jpg.html
>>>>> And the bride plus professional photographer who didn't expect to
>>> happen
>>>>> upon a Leica weilding posse during the photo session for her big  
>>>>> day
>>>>> (whoever she is, she did look really very fine):
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> http://gallery.leica-
>>> users.org/v/freakscene/LuG/someone+was+getting+married.jpg.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Earlier:
>>>>> Brian at The Queen's Head, one of my favourite pubs:
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/LuG/brian.jpg.html
>>>>>
>>>>> There are more on film but I need to find some time to turn them  
>>>>> into
>>>>> something visible.
>>>>>
>>>>> Marty
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Geoff Hopkinson
>>> <hopsternew at gmail.com
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hey wait a minute! It may have been a consequence of a nine hour
>>> lunch
>>>>> the
>>>>>> day before!
>>>>>> Aah well, I must respond with some candids form a botanical  
>>>>>> gardens
>>>> visit
>>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/br/28Ad.jpg.html
>>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/br/46Ad.jpg.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2009/3/21 Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Brian's iPhone is a fine gadget, but his enthusiasm and ability
>> to
>>>>>> explain
>>>>>>> it interested me more.  Apple should hire him.  We all found Tap
>>> Tap
>>>>>> Dance
>>>>>>> culturally mystifying (we're too old apparently) but here it is
>> on
>>>>>> display:
>>>>>>>
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/LuG/brian+iphone.jpg.html
>>>>>>> And I don't seem to have any photos of Geoff where he isn't
>>> talking .
>>>> .
>>>>> .
>>>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/LuG/hoppy.jpg.html
>>>>>>> Note the nice, neutral-type bokeh from the 75/2
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> More to follow,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Marty
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Brian Reid <
>>>>> reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> plus a touch iPhone with which Brian is able to harness the
>>> power
>>>>>>>>> of the universe for any imaginable purpose
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I was greatly amusing AusLUG folks with Urban Spoon and the GPS
>>>>> mapper
>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>> my iPhone. And the bill for all that international data roaming
>>>> was,
>>>>>>> despite
>>>>>>>> dire warnings from AT&T, not bad at all.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Geoff
>>>>> 'Life's too short for mediocre glass'
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/
>>>>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheers
>>> Geoff
>>> 'Life's too short for mediocre glass'
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/
>>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>>
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