Are We Meeting Today?

(Ricoh GX200; water taxi and the "driver")

A Ricoh user, ismall, texted me this in the morning. We had been in contact but probably both of us tried to be not pushy. So I kept sending her email and tweets instead of calling her direct and she kept waiting for me to contact her first. Great that she texted me finally.

So we met quite early this morning. She brought alsong a film camera and a GRD3 while I a Leica X1 in case I need to put more pixels in the images, Leica D-Lux 5 for its zoom range and the GX200 mounted with the wide converter. We spent a day shooting out from the tram, on an outlying island and in an open-air market. It was a long, enjoyable day and here are some more of the shots I did with the GX200:

Comments

ismall said…

I had a great time. Really fun being able to spend a whole day on photography. My HK shots are being developed now so it'll be fun to compare the diff shots of the same things.

24 April 2012 at 22:40

Nevin said…

I am yet to find time to post the photos taken that day. Let's see if I can post similar posts following your posts. Will be fun comparing the different perspectives then.

25 April 2012 at 02:14

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