Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/29

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Subject: [Leica] More Travel Photos
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 22:37:29 +0530
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Luis,
Thanks for looking. The second was taken under pitiless desert sun.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Lluis Ripoll
<lluisripollquerol at gmail.com>wrote:

> Jayanand,
>
> I like very much 009, the slight warm tonning is very nice, a nice
> geometrical composition. The 0058 looks on my monitor with the extra strong
> whites a little "washed", I like very much themoment and the composition
> with the shadow.
>
> cheers
> Lluis
>
>
> El 27/05/2011, a las 16:49, Jayanand Govindaraj escribi?:
>
>  A couple more from Egypt, both of which were used in Print Exchanges last
>> year.
>>
>> The first one was taken when I was lounging on my hotel balcony one
>> morning
>> when this couple arrived in a SUV at the beach below. The chauffeur then
>> carried the chairs and tables to the edge of the Mediterranean, and then
>> discreetly withdrew. Then the couple sat down, had a cup of tea (I
>> presume)
>> and enjoyed each others company for some time. It was also quite windy and
>> nippy that morning, and the whole scene was quite surreal as there was not
>> another soul on the broad beach!
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/ireland/DSC_0095.jpg.html
>>
>> The second one was taken in Abu Simbel - a Japanese couple doing what they
>> do when they travel - taking photographs. I am guessing they were
>> honeymooners by the way they were behaving. I was taken up by that hulking
>> 'grim reaper' looking shadow looming to the right:
>>
>> But at my back I always hear
>> Times winged chariot hurrying near
>> And yonder before us lie
>> Deserts of vast eternity
>>
>> I thought that Andrew Marvell's lines, penned to his coy mistress,
>> described
>> that scene very well, as we really were in the middle of a vast empty
>> desert
>> at this location:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/ireland/DSC_0058.jpg.html
>>
>> C&C, as ever, welcome
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>>
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