Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/08/18

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Subject: [Leica] Oscar - was test
From: george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 17:25:13 -0500
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> On Aug 18, 2017, at 4:54 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> 
> Thanks George. That ole Plato guy knew his onions. :-)
> 
> Douglas
> 
> 
> 
> On 18/08/2017 21:53, George Lottermoser wrote:
>>> On Aug 18, 2017, at 3:30 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
>>> 
>>> OK Philippe.
>>> Sent this last night, but the cyber darkness enveloped it and it 
>>> disappeared three times, but, here's hoping....
>>> 
>>> Oscar Wilde statue by Danny Osborne in Merrion Square, Dublin.
>>> Sony A7II and kit zoom. See Large.
>>> 
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Oscar.jpg.html
>>> 
>>> As Oscar said "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for
>>> it". With the current madness percolating various mindsets around the
>>> world, perhaps Plato's reminder "We can easily forgive a child who is
>>> afraid of the dark: the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of
>>> the light." might be more apposite.
>> love both photograph and words

Oscar seemed tuned in pretty well too.

fond regards,

George

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