Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Michiel, I like the alternate. It's the first modern photograph I've ever seen taken in Fredrikshavn. I guess I've always been interested in that place. I have a number of old photographs that were taken near there that date back to the 1800s. My grandmother was born near there in 1898. Her family emigrated to the US a couple of years later. To Minnesota for a short time. Then they homesteaded in Sterling, CO. Her dad, my great grandfather, was out stringing barbed wire fence one day. He scratched himself on the wire and died of blood poisoning a few days later. So the family moved to Berkeley, CA, where there wore more relatives. That was just before the WWI. Part of the reason I've always been fascinated by photography is that I loved looking through old family albums as a kid. My grandmother had hundreds of old photographs. When she died a couple of years ago they were distributed among family members. She gave me more than anyone else, because she knew I loved photography.. Interestingly, some of the photographs are in remarkably good shape. I can't take the photos out of the albums because the albums are so fragile. But I have a couple of loose images. Several from Fredrikshavn. I scanned a few of these and put them on my web site. The backs of the photographs are just as interesting as the frontl, so I scanned some backs too. The photographs are on very heavy stock. They were made to last. I can see several lasting for another 100 years. The loose images I have came from a page that got wet at one time. If I can figure out how to get more photos out without destroying the albums I may scan more. Some of them really are fascinating. If anyone is interested in looking at the few scans I made, they're are on my web site. The page is http://www.lightcurves.com/index1.htm and the photographs are in Gallery 3. Thanks for positing the photograph of Fredrikshavn. The people in the photographs I scanned were nearby where you were last week, over 100 years ago. Wonder what it was like to live back then. DaveR At 12:30 AM 4/16/2003 +0200, you wrote: >I drove through Denmark to get into Sweden and had a few hours to spare in >Fredrikshavn waiting for the ferry. This is a shot from the beach into >the direction of Sweden. >http://home.wanadoo.nl/michiel.fokkema/paw/14.htm > >The alternate is taken from the boat back to Denmark. Everytime I use the >vc15 I'm amazed of what it can deliver. >http://home.wanadoo.nl/michiel.fokkema/paw/14a.htm ><http://home.wanadoo.nl/michiel.fokkema/paw/14.htm> > >Michiel Fokkema - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html