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Subject: [Leica] Photo from Frankfurt, Germany
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 19:12:05 -0500
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Earphone for his radio

from my iPad

Sonny Carter

> On Sep 14, 2015, at 6:28 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> What's that on his right ear?
> 
> Ken
> 
>> On 9/14/2015 3:46 PM, Matt Kollasch wrote:
>> Thanks Montie and Jay. Much appreciated...  I sent the photo to the*
>> Frankfurter
>> Allgemeine Zeitung, *but I do not expect an response.
>> 
>> What was interesting to me, besides the photo op, was how professional the
>> police were. They mingled to make sure violence would be quelled quickly,
>> but otherwise it was hands off. At one time they all put on their leather
>> gloves when words were getting heated but it never got beyond those heated
>> words. Anyway, I took direct photos of the police. One in which an officer
>> is looking directly in at me. I would be reluctant to do that in the 
>> states
>> if I were not with an official media outlet. Maybe my thoughts about that
>> are wrong... I have only read about how it can go wrong with the police
>> sometimes... and I have lived abroad now for nine years. So..?
>> 
>> This was how the police acted in this instance, thus, I can not speak to
>> the general demeanor of the German police.
>> 
>> Here's the photo of the cop taken with a 35mm lens, no cropping. We were
>> close to each other.
>> 
>> http://www.kollarfoto.com/lug/2015/9/15/mo1i2em6yztb3cjh35kxzyoqrblgdt
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Jay Burleson <leica at jayburleson.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Matt, that is so amazingly great.
>>> The juxtaposition is superb.
>>> That photo make the classes well worth your time spent in Germany.
>>> You should send it to some of the media; it deserves to be seen by a 
>>> wider
>>> audience.
>>> 
>>> Jay
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 9/13/2015 10:39 PM, Matt Kollasch wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Germans arguing finer points of Islam on the Zeil this past Saturday. 
>>>> Many
>>>> police mingling with the crowd. Only tempers flew.
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.kollarfoto.com/
>>>> 
>>>> 12 September 2015 ::: M240 | Summarit 35
>>>> I visited the Leica store here too. Nice shop with some Jim Marshall, et
>>>> al, prints on exhibit.
>>>> 
>>>> C & C welcome.
>>>> 
>>>> Two more weeks of German language classes remain!
>>>> 
>>>> /matt
>>>> 
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