Leica M9-P » Edition Hermès
I’m not sure you understand how much I want this camera right now. Like seriously.
It’s only $50,000. Like seriously.
Also, each camera is hand made. You can watch one being made here.
10th of July: We Love This City
9:05 Jul 11th, 2009 | 2 notes
Oxford; the university city. It’s true what they say; Oxford is truly a student city. That much is apparent just by walking around and seeing the 27 (I think) colleges that make up the University of Oxford. I loved the atmosphere of Oxford. It’s hard to describe, the air of potential and the vibe of a city brimming with culture and life. In our short stay, Mum and I saw some amazing things. We started off just wandering the streets of Oxford. Browsing the side streets and getting lost is the best way of seeing a city. We stumbled upon the Radcliff Camera and the Bodleian Library this way. The Radcliff Camera (Camera being a word for Room) is a reading room while the Bodleian Library lies adjacent. However old the library might be (I don’t know, look it up!) it is still a fully functional one complete with library cards and all. Next we visited Magdalen College (pronounced ‘Maudlin’), the college we visited when I was three years old and of which we have a picture with my Dad pushing me around in a stroller. The age of the college was astounding to me, coming from Australia, a nation just over 100 years old. The college was founded in 1458 and only has 600 students attending. After wandering around for a while, translating some Latin text along the way, I came to a wonderful conclusion. Magdalen College, and I presume many other colleges in Oxford, is Hogwarts. If you look at my Flickr page you’ll see many of the buildings and grounds have a remarkable resemblance to Harry Potter’s school. I saw the Hogwarts Magdalen Cloisters, the Great Hall and the Third Floor Corridor St John’s Chapel. But no Filch. Continuing our tried and tested methods of exploring the city, we got lost and found ourselves in the University of Oxford Botanic Garden. I’d seen botanic gardens before, but none with such an awesome green house! You could walk through nearly every type of climate in there, each with their own room and varieties of plants! We sat by the River Cherwell as I translated some Virgil that was on the side of a pillar in the garden bed, very relaxing (except I couldn’t translate it all). Then, French people came past on the river. Worst of all, they were students. Loud, French students. Enough said. I really loved Oxford, I even bought a University of Oxford sweater I loved it that much. Tonight I’m blogging to you live from a hotel somewhere in Black Bourton. Well, it’s not really ‘live’ because there’s no internet connection. GASP! What is this the 90s? Tomorrow we depart for Monmouth. See you then! Observations: · French students are loud · Every college in Oxford has its own chapel · There is a tree in Magdalen College older than Australia Amount of SD card space: 5256MB Covered markets visited: 2 Pubs avoided: 3
