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Vieux Lille, July 2nd

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Airy:


Df, 105/2.5

From this album, also using a 20/2.8 AIS : http://_airy_.prosite.com/443918/7078060/gallery/vieux-lille-un-2-juillet

Bjørn Rørslett:
Showing the potential of the 105/2.5 + Df combination, splendid. The two of them are synergistic and I have for the last years pondered whether the 105 was one of the reasons the Nikon team came up with the idea of a camera for it, the one we now know as the Df.

Frank Fremerey:
One of the best photos I have seen in a  long time. Maybe you do not have time to play the organ. BUT: You have time and talent to tell the story of this woman's life in the fraction of a second. Plus you set her into a context that in itself has quite a story to tell. Applause!

Airy:
Björn (sorry, my keyboard has a Swedish accent), I remember your mentioning the special "pairing" between that camera and that precise lens. I noticed the same, they are like pop and mom. In addition, the 105 nearly always frames what I'd like to have; that FL seems to zoom on my sight or vision.

Frank, I indeed took two frames and chose the one with the lady at the edge. I envisaged to rotate the pic in PP to correct the tilt, but her feet would have been partly cut off, and that was a No-No. In addition, she seems to walk down the slope, which somehow makes the shortcoming acceptable, if not intentional. The coffeehouse is strange, "Sarthe" is a remote province, and the 6-digit phone number dates back to God knows when (more than 30 years). It is a somewhat run-down, "alternative" café that exsudes a smell of bohème rather than alcoholism, so it is rather nice a place. The café was the original subject indeed, but a passing lady changed the game. The girl from Ipanema, downtown version...

Maybe the pic is a tad too dark. Very slight blueish cast on my monitor, but it fits (the scene was in the shadow).

Thanks both for your observations, you guys seem to X-ray me and my "production". As a matter of fact, I treated myself with a walk after having worked from home - the chaotic train circulation led me to stay here and work as usual.

And a wink to Ron "Scubadiver", THE specialist for such shots...

Frank Fremerey:
take some time off from Société nationale des chemins de fer français and come to Bonn. lets x-ray this little ridiculous city to its bone ....

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