Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan: Let's hear it for Christmas! > http://www.wajsman.com/2002_50.jpg > (Voigtlander Bessa R2, 35mm Summilux ASPH, Fuji Press 800) Another enjoyable slice of life from the old country... I'd like to see this "living tree" idea in use over here. > The alternates are in an entirely different vein. On one of the squares > off Zurich's main shopping street, Bahnhofstrasse, there is a "singing > Christmas tree" every December. It is really a wooden structure covered > with branches, able to accomodate lots of singing children. Every > evening until the 22nd a different school from the area performs, and > last week it was the turn of the Inter-Community School, which my > children attend. My daughter (3rd grade) participated, and of course I > was there with my camera. > > First, the children and teachers had to get into their outfits in a > hotel a few hundred metres from the tree. Here are the teachers > struggling with their electric Santa hats: > http://www.wajsman.com/2002_50alt1.jpg > > My daughter in her outfit: > http://www.wajsman.com/2002_50alt2.jpg > > Now everyone is ready to walk to the tree. Of course I focused on my > daughter, but it is actually the girl in the foreground who makes this > picture: > http://www.wajsman.com/2002_50alt3.jpg > > Now we're there and the children enter the tree: > http://www.wajsman.com/2002_50alt4.jpg > > Of course it takes a bunch of 3rd graders several minutes to calm down > and find the right page in the song book: > http://www.wajsman.com/2002_50alt5.jpg > > But finally they get going: > http://www.wajsman.com/2002_50alt6.jpg > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html