Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, What's a nice story and a nice place! I can be lost there too! It is really nice these two pictures from the same point, the same place ... What's happen...? I see that some Luggers we are scanning our pictures of the past..., included me, nostalgia? Un abrazo Lluis El 08/02/2013, a las 21:13, Nathan Wajsman escribi?: > I lived in Brussels from 1995 to 2000. In many ways, these were some of > the happiest years of my life. Brussels, despite the crappy climate, is > one of the world's best places to live. So I always enjoy going back > there. During those visits there are certain places I always pass by. One > of those places is a second-hand bookshop in a neighbourhood of Ixelles > called Matong?, or Little Zaire. As the name implies, it is a place with > many African immigrants, but Brussels is a city where cultures very much > mix, so you see all kinds of people there. The bookshop is called > Librairie Hankard. I photographed it back in 2001, during one of my first > visits back after moving to Zurich: > http://www.frozenlight.eu/nathanfoto/paw/48.jpg > > On Thursday, I was in the neighbourhood again, and I was pleased to see > that the bookshop was still in business. I walked in, and chatted with the > lady. It turned out that her son-in-law works for the Benelux Intellectual > Property Office and therefore sometimes has to travel to Alicante to visit > the EU IP office where I work. It is a small world indeed. I had a nice > chat with her, bought a book (I am physically incapable of walking into > this kind of bookshop without buying a book), and took at picture: > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2356423952&k=h2cRpDP&lb=1&s=O > > Both pictures with Leica equipment: the 2001 picture with an M3 on Ilford > Delta 3200, this weeks picture with my M8. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information