Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Brian, that's very exciting! I wish you a great family event and travel experience! The idea of taking the Q2 and therefore not suffering any overthinking about which camera and lens to use at any given moment sounds freeing. On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 6:00 PM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote: > My niece is getting married in Lesotho on December 29. > https://www.theknot.com/us/naomi-glassman-and-kopano-majara-dec-2019 > > My 94-year-old mother (the bride's grandmother), who lives in Maine, > wishes to attend, so I will be escorting her from York, Maine to Maliba > Lodge in Lesotho via Washington Dulles, Accra, Johannesburg, and Maseru. > I have arranged for wheelchairs in all of the airports and I have > significant medical insurance for both of us. Also, the bride's > stepfather is a principal in M?decins Sans Fronti?res and will be there. > > I'll be gone for Christmas and for my wedding anniversary, but I'm > hoping to be able to FaceTime my wife that day via my iPhone. And I hope > to come back with a truckload of pictures that I will process in > Lightroom Classic and Photoshop CS6 > > Lesotho is so beautiful that I'm sure I will break my personal rule and > take landscape pictures in addition to pictures of people. I've got my > Q2, four 1733X 128GB SD cards, a USB charger for the Q2 batteries, two > Steri-pens, plenty of loperamide, my MacBook, two USB-C external hard > drives (not to be kept in the same place), and some clothes. Also > various folding canes, suction-cup shower grab bars, and a gait belt. > > I've photographed more than 100 weddings, but never before with a 28mm > lens. We shall see what happens. > > The groom's parents speak only Sesotho, but the bride (my niece Naomi) > speaks a dozen languages fluently, one of which is Sesotho. I've learned > to read it a little bit and have learned enough of the spoken language > to know that "Maliba" is pronounced "muh-DEE-bah". > > Today I've been preparing the inscription for a Sesotho-language bible > that our family is going to give the groom's parents at the wedding. The > inscription says > > > Bibele ena ke mpho ea lelapa la bo Kopano Majara ho tsoa ho lelapa la bo > Naomi Glassman ka lenyalo la Kopano le Naomi. > > E fanoa ke lelapa la bo Naomi ho tsoa USA. Elizabeth, nkhono oa Naomi, > > Le > > Alexander, Allyson, Andrea, Benjamin, Brian, Bruce, Carl, Cora, Daniel, > Dwayne, Dwayne, Elizabeth, Elizabeth, Ethan, Garrett, Georgia, Glenn, > Grace, Harvey, Jennifer, Joanne, Jordyn, Joyce, Katherine, Katrina, > Kevin, Kristine, Levi, Loretta, Lucille, Matthew, Michael, Naomi, > Nicholas, Nolan, Nora, Orson, Otto, Owen, Phillip, Roxanne, Russell, > Steven, Susan, Vanessa, le Victoria > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information