Bill, It was a very pleasant surprise to see you at the opening! Next time you've got to stay longer. I really enjoyed the link to your family bagpipes. (I own bagpipe records.) And it was nice to see your gallery of Chicago. It's fun to see others photos of a place you know well. We must have missed just missed you on Navy Pier. Boris has some shots of the same cloud with the John Hancock sticking thru it. And I see you still like girls in leather boots. I like the river shots and the Marina City boats by the House of Blues. Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:44 AM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > Second attempt. > > A week or so before leaving for this trip, I borrowed a little point and > shoot from a friend, with the intention of traveling light. > A little Panasonic with a Leica lens. > The name "Leica" sold me for obvious reasons. > I don't know anything about it other than how to run it on something called > "Intelligent Automatic" and manual. > And it's lens is a 24-60/2.0 equivalent. > I presume equivalent to a lens on a 35mm camera. > I don't know, but it seemed fairly wide angle. > It's lens is also quite good. > But this isn't a camera review, this is a total fuck up by someone who > drinks too much. > But, as always, I digress. > > Doug, you really should have come for pizza on Saturday. > If we do this again, we should probably arrange our hotels to be closer. > I hope we do this again. > > It's funny, the things that we do, and the things that happen. On Saturday, > Tom and I hooked up with Stan, and we did somewhat of a tourist gig at the > Bean, a large chrome thing. > By good fortune, this coincided with a Scottish Pipe Band playing Scotland > the Brave passingly well. > > I believe I mentioned at the time the existence of my family's pipe band. > This is them: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GY-2MxMn2c&feature=related > > > OK, we'll see how many have been scared off by the bagpipes. > > And on to the things that happen. > Last year at about this time, I was playing tug with my dog. At some point, > he hit my knee with his body and bent it sideways. > I am now somewhat lame. > On several levels, I am sure, but in this case, I can only stand up for so > long before I need to find a place to sit. > But as always, I digress yet again. > > Oh yes, I was hanging out with Tom and Stan. > And my knee said screw you, I am now going to torment you until you cry like > a girl. > And so we found a little coffee shop and Stan, Tom and I talked about many > things. > Stan, it turns out, is a lover of Great Danes, and at one time was thinking > about breeding > them. > And so we talked about dogs for a while. > And Stan told us about a fellow that turns entire towns into his studio. > Which had nothing to do with dogs, but that isn't important. > None of this is. > And then we went off again into the rather chilly Chicago afternoon. > Eventually wandering away, Stan going off to do whatever he was off to, Tom > and I wandered back to the art gallery where we carefully avoided Eggleston, > in favour of old Chinese Pottery and Renaissance Italian painters. > I should have stuck with the Eggleston. All that happened was my knee > started to hurt again and the only place to sit was outside that gallery. > > OK, now we'll see how many have been scared off by my long winded > writing.... > > As the subject line says, there are pictures. Fifty three of them, in fact. > > http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/gesos/chicago/index.html > > Next time I come to Chicago, I'll bring a real camera and some lenses. > > William Robb > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
