odklizec
PK
Hi folks, as promised some (long) time ago, I would like to announce the first official RicohForum meet up! I would like to thank you Cristian (VladimirV) and Tom (peugeotpeppermill) who gave me a helping hand with organizing this event! Thank you guys!
Some key dates and facts:
Date: 29-11-2008
Start time: 11:00
Place: The Bridge Lounge - > see google map <
However, the meeting place is just preliminary and depends on the number of people who may come. So it may change!
Please, keep watching this post (just in case of "last minute" change)! The best would be to tick the "Subscribe Topic" link at bottom of this topic.
And what should you expect? Definitely a great meeting with people of the same interest and passion, a lot of nice discussions and as we hope, also nice little walk around the London and taking some photographs. But that's not all!
As you probably know, Ricoh is watching this forum with great interest and some of the Ricoh Europe folks will come also to our London meeting! At this point, I don't know who exactly and how many of them will come. But after a wonderful dinner at Photokina, I'm quite sure it would be a very nice experience for all participants of this London meeting! So don't miss your chance to meet the Ricoh folks personally and tell them your opinions and suggestions for next generations of their wonderful photographic tools we all love.
If you are interested in this meeting, please let us know under this post. We just need to know the approximate number of people we should expect, just to book the places in The Bridge Lounge.
BTW, please take some printed photos with you! It's not necessary but it would be very nice to see some of your printed Ricoh photos. And who knows, maybe we can do a small meet-up photo competition with them?
I hope to see and shake hands with as many of you as possible!
List of participants:
Cristian (VladimirV), Tom(peugeotpeppermill) and me prepared 4 possible photographic walks for our meeting. Please read the description for each walk and explore it on a Google map (just click the link with path name). If you click on path in map, you can see the approximate length of the walk.If you like any of the walks, please express your opinion in the above poll. The pool is now finished and the winning walkaround is the Borough Market walk!
Photographic walkaround:
Borough Market walk
Borough Market, walk along the Thames to the Tate Modern and then to the London Eye/Westminster and have dinner and drinks along the Southbank or cross the Millenium Bridge after visiting the Tate and going to the City for some interesting architecture and we could end up at the Tower Bridge. Only viable if the weather is not too bad although Borough Market and Tate Modern can be done even if it rains.
Camera Cafe walk
Camera Cafe (or alternative), then walk along Oxford Street to Regent's Street or alternative through Soho, then Picadilly Circus/Chinatown to Trafalgar Square. If time permits maybe walk back up to the British Museum and have dinner and drinks in Charlotte Street.
South Bank walk
We could all start in the Camera Cafe area. Move to covernt gardenm then walk towards St. Pauls, cross over the Millenium Bridge and visit the Tate. We could then all have coffee at the top where there is a nice view. We could then walk along the river up until Southbank. There are plenty of pubs on the bank of the river and stuff to see, and I'm sure candid shots. My only worry is the distance between Covent Garden and st. Pauls is pretty far and nothing really very interesting in between.
Greenwich walk
Greenwich, walk through the Greenwich Markets, then Greenwich Park and Observatory (look at the Camera Obscura), walk to the University and then maybe through the foot tunnel to Canary Wharf or along the thames past the industrial facilities to the O2 and have drinks and dinner there.
Some key dates and facts:
Date: 29-11-2008
Start time: 11:00
Place: The Bridge Lounge - > see google map <
Please, keep watching this post (just in case of "last minute" change)! The best would be to tick the "Subscribe Topic" link at bottom of this topic.
And what should you expect? Definitely a great meeting with people of the same interest and passion, a lot of nice discussions and as we hope, also nice little walk around the London and taking some photographs. But that's not all!
As you probably know, Ricoh is watching this forum with great interest and some of the Ricoh Europe folks will come also to our London meeting! At this point, I don't know who exactly and how many of them will come. But after a wonderful dinner at Photokina, I'm quite sure it would be a very nice experience for all participants of this London meeting! So don't miss your chance to meet the Ricoh folks personally and tell them your opinions and suggestions for next generations of their wonderful photographic tools we all love.
If you are interested in this meeting, please let us know under this post. We just need to know the approximate number of people we should expect, just to book the places in The Bridge Lounge.
BTW, please take some printed photos with you! It's not necessary but it would be very nice to see some of your printed Ricoh photos. And who knows, maybe we can do a small meet-up photo competition with them?
I hope to see and shake hands with as many of you as possible!
List of participants:
Code:
Nickname
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Odklizec
VladimirV
peugeotpeppermill
rich s
paulyrichard
mdooodles
RawMike
doctorpuchong
marky
svllee (+ Teh Jin)
+ unknown number of Ricoh guests (probably 3 of them)Cristian (VladimirV), Tom(peugeotpeppermill) and me prepared 4 possible photographic walks for our meeting. Please read the description for each walk and explore it on a Google map (just click the link with path name). If you click on path in map, you can see the approximate length of the walk.
Photographic walkaround:
Borough Market walk
Borough Market, walk along the Thames to the Tate Modern and then to the London Eye/Westminster and have dinner and drinks along the Southbank or cross the Millenium Bridge after visiting the Tate and going to the City for some interesting architecture and we could end up at the Tower Bridge. Only viable if the weather is not too bad although Borough Market and Tate Modern can be done even if it rains.
Camera Cafe walk
Camera Cafe (or alternative), then walk along Oxford Street to Regent's Street or alternative through Soho, then Picadilly Circus/Chinatown to Trafalgar Square. If time permits maybe walk back up to the British Museum and have dinner and drinks in Charlotte Street.
South Bank walk
We could all start in the Camera Cafe area. Move to covernt gardenm then walk towards St. Pauls, cross over the Millenium Bridge and visit the Tate. We could then all have coffee at the top where there is a nice view. We could then walk along the river up until Southbank. There are plenty of pubs on the bank of the river and stuff to see, and I'm sure candid shots. My only worry is the distance between Covent Garden and st. Pauls is pretty far and nothing really very interesting in between.
Greenwich walk
Greenwich, walk through the Greenwich Markets, then Greenwich Park and Observatory (look at the Camera Obscura), walk to the University and then maybe through the foot tunnel to Canary Wharf or along the thames past the industrial facilities to the O2 and have drinks and dinner there.
