On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I arrived in Fez I found that I had forgotten to pack my spare > batteries and battery chargers, so I had arrived with only the battery > in the vertical grip. When I'd stopped hyperventilating I set off for > the French-built part of town, which is a modern city, in the hope of > being able to pick something up and, if not, buy a new camera. > > On the way there I spotted this place: > http://www.web-options.com/Fez1.jpg > > The old man and his son who ran it opened the shop for me and spent a > long time searching through their piles of stuff, but they didn't have > what I needed, unfortunately. Nevertheless, I spent a pleasant time > with them and the older man showed me some photographs he'd taken on a > trip to London in the 1970s - mainly Buckingham Palace and telephone > boxes. I took a picture of him by the light of the small window you > can see in the shop: > http://www.web-options.com/Fez2.jpg > > Later that day I did manage to find a small, genuine Olympus battery > for the camera and a rather dodgy but effective Chinese charger, so I > was rescued. But lesson learned! > > Bob
What a wonderful portrait! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
