Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good Nathan portrait! Cheers Lluis El 24/05/2010, a las 19:50, Richard Taylor escribi?: > As Nathan mentioned in an earlier post, we met for the first time > yesterday evening for dinner and drinks and had a fine time. > > We ate at the "No Name" restaurant across the street from his > hotel. The "No Name" was originally a diner for the fishermen > working on Fish Pier that, like the nearby Durgin Park restaurant, > has, with redevelopment, become a tourist destination. When it > opened in 1917 there was literally no sign out front identifying it > and over the years it developed a reputation for serving the finest > seafood in town. > > Here's Nathan showing off his new 7-14 zoom. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/BOSTON/ > P1010225.jpg.html > or > http://tinyurl.com/3yvtjab > > ... and the upstairs dining room at the No Name. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/BOSTON/ > P1010230.jpg.html > or > http://tinyurl.com/2d94s6a > > It was something of a shock to revisit this part of Boston for the > first time in a couple of decades. If it hadn't been for the > familiarity of the harbor I could have been anywhere. All the > ramshackle old factories, warehouses, small restaurants, run-down > piers, and parking lots that screamed "Boston Waterfront" have been > replaced by the now commonplace sterile glass, steel, and brick > hotels and offices; parking towers; and (mostly) chain restaurants. > > Historic Fish Pier is still there and appears still to be a working > pier, though a suspiciously clean one to my eye, and the grundgy > commercial fishing boats seem seriously out of place among the > spanking clean buildings and tour boats. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/BOSTON/ > P1010241.jpg.html > or > http://tinyurl.com/27fk4cc > > All taken with the GF-1 and 7-14 f4.0 Lumix zoom. > > C&C always welcome. > > Regards, > > Dick > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information