Bertram2
Gone elsewhere
Dear all,
we all know what the very special circumstances are which determine the conversation with other people in the web.
At first we speak to more ore less virtual beings, getting a certain imagination later of what the person could be, a kind of virtual friendship can raise and but we should never forget that in fact the we don't know too much of the other person.
Nonetheless, sometimes it does not end at this point, it does not stay virtual furthermore. You begin to phone each other and the voice at the other end fits perfectly to your imagination and thus your communication achieves a new level of familiarity and one day you reach the point where you find a personal meeting to be an unavoidable necessity. Not to do it would simply be silly.
I "met" John E. Robertson the first time about 3 years ago, when I found some of his incredible architecture shots at pgallery.net. I sent him some enthusiastic comments and thus we got in contact the first time, by the photos. We both were members of CVUG too in those days and from then on our communication developed exactly in the same the way I have described it above.
My wife (she is wiser than me) one day said that it would be time now to meet him, and some weeks later, last November , she came home and told me she had reserved two flights from Frankfurt to Edinburgh. She said she wanted to spent her birthday in Dundee. Basta. The rest was organisation only.
When I met John at the Edinburgh Airport it felt as if we had met a hundred times before already, what I had read in his mails and heard at the phone, it was all there ! He is an extraordinary interesting man , friendly, warm hearted and enormously knowledgeable, also outside of the photographic issues.
He has been a brilliant host and guide for us , drove us 700 ms across Scotland in 5 days to the nicest places and he thus made the trip become an unforgettable event for my wife and me. We were incredibly lucky with the weather, 5 days bright sunlight only, a wonder related to normal Scottish April weather conditions, and so our trip was also photographically a lucky experience. We had a really good time together in a great country, my wife later said she felt so brilliantly entertained by the endless chattering on the front seats, she waited for a break all the time but it did not come !🙂)
I've put up a new Scotland album on my own site, with a colour and a B&W section, which will contain what I consider to be the best of my Scottish impressions. This is a beautiful and, for me, in some way also a magic land of a kind I had not seen before. I am afraid I caught that Scotland virus and it will be impossible not to go there one more time.
But before this will happen John has to come down to the South West of Germany and we will get a chance to give him some of his overwhelming hospitality back and to help him refreshing his knowledge of the German and French language.
The B&Ws were shot with my Ricoh 35, the slides with my Nikon SLR and a zoom, whichI always use for slides, and so it would not be correct to put them all up at RFF.
Please go to www.bersac.de , open the Scotland albums, B&W and colour. The navigation is set up with a new window opening for each pic you click on in the index. To get back to the album page just close the window. All comments appreciated !
Regards,
Bertram
My wife was so kindly to offer me two her shots to give the photogs a face.
we all know what the very special circumstances are which determine the conversation with other people in the web.
At first we speak to more ore less virtual beings, getting a certain imagination later of what the person could be, a kind of virtual friendship can raise and but we should never forget that in fact the we don't know too much of the other person.
Nonetheless, sometimes it does not end at this point, it does not stay virtual furthermore. You begin to phone each other and the voice at the other end fits perfectly to your imagination and thus your communication achieves a new level of familiarity and one day you reach the point where you find a personal meeting to be an unavoidable necessity. Not to do it would simply be silly.
I "met" John E. Robertson the first time about 3 years ago, when I found some of his incredible architecture shots at pgallery.net. I sent him some enthusiastic comments and thus we got in contact the first time, by the photos. We both were members of CVUG too in those days and from then on our communication developed exactly in the same the way I have described it above.
My wife (she is wiser than me) one day said that it would be time now to meet him, and some weeks later, last November , she came home and told me she had reserved two flights from Frankfurt to Edinburgh. She said she wanted to spent her birthday in Dundee. Basta. The rest was organisation only.
When I met John at the Edinburgh Airport it felt as if we had met a hundred times before already, what I had read in his mails and heard at the phone, it was all there ! He is an extraordinary interesting man , friendly, warm hearted and enormously knowledgeable, also outside of the photographic issues.
He has been a brilliant host and guide for us , drove us 700 ms across Scotland in 5 days to the nicest places and he thus made the trip become an unforgettable event for my wife and me. We were incredibly lucky with the weather, 5 days bright sunlight only, a wonder related to normal Scottish April weather conditions, and so our trip was also photographically a lucky experience. We had a really good time together in a great country, my wife later said she felt so brilliantly entertained by the endless chattering on the front seats, she waited for a break all the time but it did not come !🙂)
I've put up a new Scotland album on my own site, with a colour and a B&W section, which will contain what I consider to be the best of my Scottish impressions. This is a beautiful and, for me, in some way also a magic land of a kind I had not seen before. I am afraid I caught that Scotland virus and it will be impossible not to go there one more time.
But before this will happen John has to come down to the South West of Germany and we will get a chance to give him some of his overwhelming hospitality back and to help him refreshing his knowledge of the German and French language.
The B&Ws were shot with my Ricoh 35, the slides with my Nikon SLR and a zoom, whichI always use for slides, and so it would not be correct to put them all up at RFF.
Please go to www.bersac.de , open the Scotland albums, B&W and colour. The navigation is set up with a new window opening for each pic you click on in the index. To get back to the album page just close the window. All comments appreciated !
Regards,
Bertram
My wife was so kindly to offer me two her shots to give the photogs a face.
