Doug tells us about owning a 'special' and some of the factors that come with it when you try to use it as your standard, every day digital camera.



Gerald Stone has now arranged the visit to the new London store, details are below:

The visit to the New Leica Mayfair Flagship Store at 14 Dover Street, W1S 4LW, is now arranged for the afternoon of 28th January 2027. I am still working on the details for the day, but I am hoping for a tour of the new facilities and also a visit to the new Customer Care centre in Soho along other things.

If you want to go on this visit please contact Gerald on his email address:

gm_stone@btinternet.com
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Alan's mysterious title takes us to one of his favourite places in Exmoor and you will find out who the third 'Golden Oldie' is as you read on.



All Saints Church




All Saints Church




'The Best Bookshop Outside London'




Dulverton Post Office




Blast From The Past




Fish & Chips




River Barle




Stansbury's Garage




Wood's Dining Room





Wood'd Dining Room

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For those members who wanted to join the other member’s visit to the Leica HQ. This will now be postponed to January as they are moving to a new Flagship Store which opens officially on 5th November. Any further details please contact Gerald.
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To show the different places members explored during our Sepatember weekend in and around Llanelli members sent one photograph from their travels.
First of all Sally Tarlton shows our group in the conference facilities viewing the prints of Les Loosemore, a well known local photographer.




The Brecon Mountain Railway was visited by Melinda Stone and Keith Mason



Melinda Stone



Keith Mason


Cled Lewis took this photograph of one of the cars - Babs that attempted land speed records at Pendine Sands during the 20th Century and



Cled Lewis


Don and Jo Morley visited the beautiful Rhosilli Bay where Don captured this panorama



Don Morley


Tenby is close by so some of us explored the resort. Gareth Lewis and Keith Walker shows aspects of the town.



Gareth Lewis



Keith Walker


Pam Lewis photographed these two dogs duly kitted out for their ride on a motorbike at Pendine Sands!



Pam Lewis


Gerald and Melinda went to Neath and Gerald photographed the ruins of the Abbey



Gerald Stone


In the nearby village of Felinfoel there is a large sculpture dedicated to a famous Welsh rugby player, Phil Bennett that Ken & Joan Davis visited.



There are two additional news items this week

Gerald Stone is planning the annual Leica Fellowship visit to the Leica Store in Duke Street in London for some time in November or December. there are still a few places left so anybody interested will need to get in touch with Gerald quickly as these places will only be available on a first-come-first-served basis.

Contact -: Gerald 07976 555519 or at gm_stone@btinternet.com if you are interested.

The second item is from Keith Walker concerning
Frank Dabba -Smith's information about how the Leitz family helped Jews in WWII.
A German film has now been made and was difficult to find in UK. It is now on YouTube and may be of some interest to the Fellowship:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bENVh73NzZ4
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This week we show the winning photographs in our competitions held at Llanelli. Memebers will see all the placed photographs in a future edition of the newsletter.
These are the results:

In The Wild - Flora and Fauna
1) Gareth Lewis Common Dove Taking Off






Candid / Reportage
1) Keith Walker The Protest




Projected Pictures
1)Jay Charnock Two Bikers





Colour Print
1)Jay Charnock Casa de Duro




Black and White Print
1)Don Morley Just Passing


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Before we publish any news and photographs about the weekend in Llanelli we are returning to Bernard Lockley's exploration of European cities with his Leica M9 Monochrom.




















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