Great sentiment, marc.
I'll bet you've got some great ones in there, since yours was my favorite of
the last bunch.
George
-----Original Message-----
From: marc simon <marc.simon@xxxxxxx>
To: Olympus mailing list <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, September 23, 1999 11:23 AM
Subject: [OM]ADITL benefit
>Hi all,
>yesterday, 22 of September, the light was very flat, a bad day for taking
>pictures. I take some but was afraid of the result... The first day of
ADITL
>in June was already a "bad light day"
>During the night, it was raining cats and dogs and this morning the sky was
>bright blue with a nice sun. As my film was not finished I take some time
to
>made new pictures. For the last ones, I was on a fortified hill just across
>the river in the border of the town. And from this place I had a nice view
>of the city from the top. the light was beautiful making a superb
>"structure" with the roofs of Namur.
>In the sky some small clouds were "running" drawing pieces of shadows on
>this urban landscape...
>I've spent some moments, without taking pictures , but seeing with a new
>"eye" a place so familiar for me. I've tough that this happy moment was a
>direct benefit of the list, of this idea of ADITL... Thanks to George (our
>host), thanks to Chuck Norcutt for the idea of using the 50mm, it's a focal
>I use very rarely , my original 50mm f1.8 was stolen a lot of years ago and
>I've replaced it only this year after all the discussions about it. I have
>not taken the "classical" way of Denton in using my original OM1, but it
was
>a nice experience to be limited by this unique angle of view.
>So I've spent a nice moment by the grace of the "list spirit", funnier
than
>some "too American" (kidding a little bit..! ) recent discussions,
>sometimes "off-topic" (I too have an Akai Deck cassette recorder?) anyway
>interesting on an "human" point of view: nothing is only "black" or "white"
>As we say in French this morning I was "un homme content" (OM content)
>I hope in the other "corners" of the Globe you had such nice moments
>regards
>marc
>
>
>
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