Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/07/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Many thanks for a trip to a place I am not likely to ever see! The first gallery looks unbelievably tatty - is that grunge look deliberate, sort of being uber fashionable? Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > My weeklong trip to Belgium, Germany and Poland during the penultimate > week of June ended in the city of Wroc?aw in south-western Poland, the > place where I was born and where my sister lives. I spent a weekend there, > the weather was good, the days are long this time of year, so despite the > short visit I took a lot of pictures. Wroc?aw is a city of about 700,000 > people with a large university and an international ambience. A lot of > foreign investment has poured into the city since 1989, and it shows: new > shopping malls, an Amazon distribution centre outside the city, lots of > other companies creating jobs. But also restoration of old parts of the > city, a new university campus near my sister?s place, new art galleries?the > latter spurred on by Wroc?aw being the European Capital of Culture in 2016. > As usual, I spent a lot of time looking at art, in a couple of places: a > WWII bunker that is now a modern art gallery (and which I always visit), > and a newly restored place called Four Domes Pavillon near the Century > Tower. It used to be a film studio, where people like Andrzej Wajda made > films back in the 1950s and 1960s. It then fell into disrepair, but has now > been beautifully restored and turned into a branch of the national art > museum, focusing on contemporary art. Just my thing! > > Ninety-one images from a place most of you have never visited: > > http://www.frozenlight.eu/wro_june2017/ > > As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated. > > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws < > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ < > http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < > http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information