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, Your photo choices sound great. My experience with suction cup grab bars was that they can be problematic unless the surface is very uniform. I suggest you try it out before you depend on it. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 20, 2019, at 6:23 PM, Lluis Ripoll via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > > Congratulations! Wonderful photo. Have lots of fun and a good trip > Lluis > > >> El 21 des 2019, a les 0:00, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> va >> escriure: >> >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >