Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]First and last; first because I love bread and it looks nice; last, because it is a mysterious and slightly menacing image. Incidentally, I am reading a lot more since I cannot go out much and there is no football on TV. One of the current projects is James Joyce, a writer who fits the definition of a classic (?a book which everyone has but few have read?). So in the afternoon I sit on my porch reading Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man while drinking Guinness. Cultural immersion :-) Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA "I?m not arguing, I?m just explaining why I?m right" > On 11 Apr 2020, at 14:22, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > > All the seething inaction from Inveresk on the 7th of April in seven > images. > > A loaf of white bread I made at home, with a couple of slices already > taken by my wife. She left the heel for me. Sony A7II with Zeiss Sonnar > 55/1.8 > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/CoVid-19/CV19_Homemade+white+bread.jpg.html > -------------------------------------- > A non-working 1976 Hamilton Masterpiece watch that I'm trying to repair. > It was a presentation watch from Pacific Gas and Electric to a member of > my wife's extended family that year. When he died, his wife got my wife's > uncle to arrange his burial over here in Ireland and gave him the watch as > a memento. I've had it for many years on a to-do list, but with CoVid > decided it was one of the jobs to-actually-do. When I glued the nut on, I > thought - misled by the internet - that it was a stuck screw back, but it > transpired to be a monocoque one with movement access through the watch > front once the glass is removed. Am I going to buy the specialist crystal > remover claw? Probably not... Fuji X100s > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/CoVid-19/CV19_Hamilton+with+nut.jpg.html > -------------------------------------- > A view of part of my house and garden. Fuji X100S > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/CoVid-19/CV19_house+070420.jpg.html > --------------------------------------- > The cat thinks I made this just for her. It's actually a raised bed for my > wife's vegetable gardening. Fuji X100S > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/CoVid-19/CV19_cat+on+carpentry.jpg.html > --------------------------------------- > Placename sign with more modern Irish language script. Monkstown is full > of names that echo London's Belgravia as the same families owned land on > both sides of the Irish Sea. Fuji X100S > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/CoVid-19/CV19_Sign+Eaton+Square.jpg.html > -------------------------------------- > Monkstown Road with no traffic. Fuji X100S > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/CoVid-19/CV19_Monkstown+Road.jpg.html > -------------------------------------- > Empty Monkstown Road with just myself. I shivered just as the shutter > clicked. It increased my admiration of the sitters for the early > photographers with their lengthy exposure times. Fuji X100S > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/CoVid-19/CV19_Monkstown+Road+and+self.jpg.html > --------------------------------------- > > Keep safe. > > Douglas > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information