Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Great shots Marty, remarcable composition in all, the set is really beautiful, my favorites are the two first, IMO the bokeh of the Lux 35 ASPH not seems to me so disturbing Thanks for sharing Lluis El 27/04/2010, a las 7:08, Marty Deveney escribi?: > Back to the Africa shots. > > In Namibia, many roadside stalls sell little souvenirs. This: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/img212a.jpg.html > was a Herero one. > > In Outjo, I had a conversation with a Himba woman that culminated in > me taking some photos in return for a water bottle. This is one shot > where the bokeh of the 35 Summilux asph disturbs me: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/img227a.jpg.html > I really don't like the way the lines in the background double up. > > In Swakopmund I saw an unusual giraffe: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/img479a.jpg.html > > The stone crosses at Cape Cross: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/img507a.jpg.html > were erected by Portuguese settlers in the 16th century. The senorita > is of a newer vintage. > > In the house where I grew up there was a chair called "the chair that > nobody sits on". In the laundromat in Swakopmund there was a nice > chair: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/img716a.jpg.html > when I asked the proprietress about it she reported no one sits in > that chair, but not because of bad luck or some other reason I thought > might have been likely but because it was very uncomfortable. > Sometimes parsimony reigns. > > Marty > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information