Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas Sharp wrote: > Thanks for browsing through the city Philippe, > It was a real pleasure, honest. > it really is a wonderful place (when the sun shines), and well worth a > visit. There was quite a bit of "fiddling" on a few of them, I could > have done with a graduated grey filter to tone down the light skies, > but the grad filter in LR seems to work quite well. I rarely use it as I find it difficult to move around, but you seem to have mastered the beast alright :-) > > There's a pretty nasty reason for the houses getting wider at the top > - the people used to throw their "slops" (liquid, solid and stinking) > out of the windows, and this stopped the on the floors people below > getting a neckful of it - yukk! German cleanliness and Ordnung, already ! sch?n gerputzt - first cosmetics consumers in the EU I believe I read somewhere ... Ph > Greetings from Teutonia > Douglas > > > > Philippe Amard wrote: > >> Hey that's a delivery Douglas ! >> And an invitation to visit the Goslar too. >> >> My favourites so far are : >> 69 & 92 - give a nice idea of the place - nice lines too >> 26 better composition than 27 but colours are less Velvia seen from here >> 37 - nice work on contrast while keeping the colours probably right - >> did you have to fiddle a lot? >> 59 - impressive inversed pyramid there ... >> I like the BW conversions even though when colourless, timbered >> houses tend to look alike in many countries >> 804 - for the contrejour, the lady and the hats - we miss the kutche >> and it could have been taken 150 ago - love it in fact >> >> Thanks for the impromptu trip. >> Amiti?s de Metz >> Philippe >> >> PS: I bet there a few of them you could sell to the tourist office I >> saw on one of your photos >> >> Douglas Sharp wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> Goslar is a small city in the north west of the Harz Mountains, >>> about 60-70 kilometres from here (Hannover). >>> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Goslar/?g2_page=1 - >>> and following pages >>> >>> After the discovery of metallic ores - lead, zinc, copper, a little >>> gold and a lot of silver - it became one of the richest cities in >>> Europe and an imperial residence. Silver coins minted in Goslar were >>> so pure that they became something like a standard currency in many >>> countries of Europe >>> >>> The story is told, and depicted by the animated clock in the market >>> square, that a knight's horse kicked up the ground to reveal silver >>> ore. Not being one to miss out on immense wealth, the Emperor >>> decided to take up residence in the city. >>> >>> The Palatinate palace was built in the 11th century as an imperial >>> residence by Henry the Second to protect and maintain the town?s >>> prosperity, and the Imperial Assembly of the Holy Roman Empire was >>> held there from 1009 to 1219. >>> >>> (The palace looks like an industrial building to me, it just doesn't >>> look all that old from outside) >>> >>> Mining of the Rammelsberg, the mountain just outside the city began >>> around 968 and continued until 1988 when the mine closed. >>> >>> The mining complex is now a part of the UNESCO World Heritage. >>> >>> The city's timbered houses and the grey slate cladding of roofs and >>> walls are typical of many Harz mining cities. >>> >>> I hope you enjoy a photographic walk around the town centre. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Douglas >>> >>> For the technically minded, the wide stuff is shot with a Tokina >>> 12-24 on a Canon 20D, the rest with a Zeiss 1.4/85 and a Summicron-R >>> 2/35mm >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >