Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear Mark, Glad you liked them. No filters. Yours, John On 7 December 2010 11:25, Mark Pope <mark at whitedogs.co.uk> wrote: > John, > > this is a stunning piece of work. I really enjoyed looking at it. Twice. > Did you use any filters -for example a green or yellow-green for the > foliage shots? > > Best wishes > > Mark > > > > Mark Pope, > Swindon, Wilts > UK > > Homepage http://www.monomagic.co.uk > Blog http://www.monomagic.co.uk/blog > Picture a week (2010) > http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2010 > Picture a week (2009) > http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2009 > (2008) http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2008 > > > On 06/12/2010 21:09, John Beeching wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> This summer I spent four weeks in Colombia, one week working and the >> remainder visiting the extended family or travelling with my immediate >> family - wife, eight year old son and father-in-law. Photographic >> opportunities were not abundant as security concerns restrict the kind of >> street photography I normally do. However, in Amazonas we were able to be >> a >> bit freer. As a plant scientis,t with research interests in cassava, I >> was >> delighted to come across the local production of farinha. Of more general >> interest, we were invited by an indian community leader, Gustavo, to visit >> his maloca in the forest. Getting there was quite an adventure as our >> driver dropped us where the 4x4 could get no further and we had to wait >> for >> a guide to lead us through to the maloca - an enormous communal house in a >> clearing. There after being refreshed with some home made chicha we were >> taken to the river, during the walk Gustavo waxed lyrical about plants, >> the >> indian's relationship with nature and the destructive nature of the white >> man - in his enthusiasm he kept slipping out of Spanish into his own >> language, which made it difficult to follow. In the river Gustavo and I >> sat >> up to our necks in the water sorting the world's problems out while my >> little boy swam with his grand-daughter. Back at the Maloca we were >> offered >> his powdered tobacco (snuff) blown up our nostrils through a bone tube, I >> reciprocated by blowing it up Gustavo's - my son did not like it. Then we >> each had a spoonful of powdered coca leaves with ash, by which time lunch >> was ready - grilled fish wrapped in banana leaves and plantains, >> accompanied >> with cassava bread, all washed down with home-made lemonade. While the >> food >> was delicious, my father in law and I drank out of politeness, my son out >> of >> thirst, but my wife did not; wisely, as 24 hours later the men were rather >> unwell! >> >> http://www.johnbeeching.com/maloca/album/index.html >> >> The photos: 35mm, Tri-X, Xtol. C& C welcome. >> >> I am always slightly amused when I read on this forum enquiries about what >> equipment to take on travels: How many bodies? Lenses? Digital and film? >> Tripod? Etc.? More often than not I just take my M6 with the 35mm >> Summicron in a bum-bag (fanny-bag) round my waist - light, secure and >> inconspicuous, and no back problems! >> >> Yours, >> >> John >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- John Beeching http://johnbeeching.com/ Three Frome Artists: http://www.blurb.com/books/1395201