Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice comparison. The mountains certainly haven't changed, just the snow covering. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 4/28/2016 5:21 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > PESO: > > When we went back to Iran, we visited in passing the town where we used to > live. In 1976, Arak was a small village of about 10,000 people. Tom's > aluminum plant was the only thing there in the middle of the desert. > Everything had to be brought in by train. The Shah put the plant there to > provide employment for the people even though there was no reason based on > resources to have it there. When we visited, everything had totally > changed. The small village is now a huge industrial city of over 500,000 > people. The nuclear power plant is there. We found the aluminum plant and > our neighborhood but could not find our house or anything else! I did find > the train station that I photographed in 1976: > > http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Iran/G0000YmlbTddL96g/I0000H19S3nRtJXw > > 40 years later, it has changed, too. The local people said there is never > that much snow anymore. > > http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Iran/G0000YmlbTddL96g/I00005b_A.Jr8VKI > > Interesting for Tom and me and but I'm not sure whether the new photos will > sell! Not nearly as romantic, anyway ;-) > > Tina >