Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Fascinating look back, Larry. Would be interesting to see the same places today. Here is an assignment for you ;-) Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog YNWA On Sep 13, 2010, at 12:28 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > We visited our daughter last week for a Labor Day picnic. Both of her > children had just started elementary school so we were exposed to a new > batch of germs. Naturally this week my wife and I are down with raging > colds. The enforced inactivity gave me a chance to look at some long > forgotten pictures from my India shoebox. > > > For two years during the latter part of 1986 through mid 1988 I was a > visiting Fulbright professor at the University of Delhi and a part time > consultant to the Indian Government. Consulting activities largely > consisted > of observing Indian attempts to modernize the technology industry, making > suggestions, and giving speeches to technocrats. I don't know how well our > outreach efforts succeeded. All I can tell you is that I am on a first name > basis with my computer Help Desk agent working out of Bangalore, India. > > > My leisure activity simply consisted of walking around and snapping > pictures. My top end SLR failed within a few months of arrival because of > heat and monsoon humidity so most of the pics were snapped with a very > reliable Rollei 35SE on Fujicolor film. My wife painted beautiful pictures. > > > This was our first visit to India and it was a revelation to our western > eyes. Scenes of indescribable beauty intermixed with scenes of > indescribable > poverty. My wife, the artist, was blown away by the colors. > > > Here is the first batch of Indian street photos taken within a few blocks > of > our home in New Delhi. Bear in mind that these were all taken nearly a > quarter of a century ago so conditions may be different today. More pics > later. > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Street+kids.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Califlower+vendor.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Fruit+vendor.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Nathu_s+sweets.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Nathu_s+sweets+2.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Soccer.jpg.html > > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >