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Subject: [Leica] Lesotho bound
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 19:24:05 +0100
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Sounds like a truly amazing trip!

Cheers,
Nathan

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> On 21 Dec 2019, at 00:00, 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
> 
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