[Leica] I won a prize!

[hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)]

Peter? 

Oh, for heaven?s sake! Where is your house? I?m so envious! If I?d known, 
I?d surely have visited. I like the area so much that I just got back from 
my second visit to the Abbey. The photo is from 2012, when my wife and I 
took an 11-day tour of ?Roman Provence?. And my son and I just spent 16 days 
in Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, and France. It was the partial 
implementation of a longtime dream vacation for me, to pick up a new BMW in 
Munich and then tour Europe, driving wherever the whim takes me. Of course, 
ideally my traveling companion would be my wife, and the trip would be a 
couple of months, spring into summer or summer into fall, but two weeks of 
father-son bonding was a good trial run. I went back to S?nanque both to 
show Philip the place and to try to catch the lavender in bloom. When we 
were there the first time, it was late May and there were no flowers, 
explaining the green color in the photo. Too early for even a hint of 
lavender color. This trip happened a month later in the year, but there was 
only a disappointing bit of bloom, probably still before the peak. Tell me 
the best time to come next year and I?ll meet up if you?re there!

The online reproduction is quite faithful to the original, where the stone 
is indeed a bit washed out, as you can see from where I posted it in the 
Gallery:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/France/ 
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/France/>

I took it with my favorite travel-light camera, the Sony NEX-7. I?m not sure 
that any camera would have done better without histogram peeping and manual 
exposure compensation, since the dynamic range extended from the shadow side 
of trees on the left to pale stone facing the noon sun on the right, 
completely filling the histogram. Certainly, I have been mightily impressed 
by the capabilities of the NEX-7, even with the kit zoom, and will be first 
in line to get its full-frame, curved-sensor, 50-MPx successor (speculation 
mine!) Other photos in the album were made with the M9. 

?howard


> On Jul 31, 2015, at 6:01 PM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Howard,
> 
> When were you there? I have a house just a few km away and would have been
> delighted to meet up if I was down there.
> 
> You did much better than 2nd - as I read it you tied for first because the
> judges couldn't decide.
> 
> C&C: What camera did you use? The stone looks a bit washed out and the 
> lavender
> looks an unusual shade of green. Is it the same in the original, ie is it 
> their
> reproduction?
> 
> Peter
> 
> On 30/07/2015 23:17, Howard Ritter wrote: