Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/19

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Subject: [Leica] Quiet street
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:50:45 +0530
References: <BANLkTin+ZW9KALH0ty2nasf7cdYnnFRYcg@mail.gmail.com>

Larry,
Post them, I would love to see photographs of that era from this area.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> Jayanand,
>
> I  was scheduled to give a couple of lectures in Madras and I escaped for a
> side tour to Kanchipuram for a couple of days. I took a number of
> architecture shots and a few of pilgrimage processions but they hardly meet
> LUG standards. If I post a couple on the LUG, you have to promise to be
> gentle. Most were taken with a Rollei 35 with its fixed 40mm lens and guess
> focus. It's an admirable camera as a backup, a role which it served for
> almost a year after my top ranked SLR (whose name began with "N") crapped
> out in monsoon heat and humidity. One time, as I was aiming my camera, a
> monk came up to me and asked what film and exposure I was using. Obviously
> a
> closet photographer. It turned out that he had studied philosophy at Yale
> on
> a scholarship and had returned to India to practice his true calling. Then
> he escorted me on a guided tour to see the pornographic sculptures hidden
> in
> the back of the temple. It was the high point of my visit.
>
> Larry Z
>
> - - - - - -
>
> Larry,
>
> Thanks - it is very close to home - just 1.5 hours away. It is the city of
>
> temples - did you get pilgrim/architecture shots?
>
> Cheers
>
> Jayanand
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
>
> Jayanand,
>
> The picture was taken in Kanchipuram.
>
> Larry Z
>
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