Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/04/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 10:52 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > On Sunday I woke up early and had time for a nice, cold and sunny morning > walk in the empty streets around the hotel. > > I walk a few hundred meters towards the Danish parliament. This entrance > is called the Marble Bridge: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-gfDzXmH/A > > Looking left from the Marble Bridge, there was a nice view of another > bridge, called the Storm Bridge, and the colourful houses on Nybrogade: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-DJtsHQg/A > > The square in front of the Parliament building, Christiansborg Slotsplads. > It contains all three branches of government: the Parliament, the Supreme > Court, and the Queen?s representation space, used for gala dinners for > visiting heads of state (her residence, Amalienborg, is about 1 km away): > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-CP4GFTv/A > > Entrance to the Queen?s part of Christiansborg Castle. When a function is > taking place, a military guard in a beautiful uniform and hat (but with a > modern assault rifle) stands in the red enclosure: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-q8pbmpt/A > > It says something about Denmark that despite the security that is needed > (the big stone balls in front of the Parliament building were installed > after the various terrorist attacks around Europe in recent years using > trucks or cars), one can still walk anywhere, right up to the door of these > institutions. > > After my walk, I returned to the hotel, check out, took the train to the > airport and flew home to Alicante. No Covid accompanied me. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman ============================================================= Nathan, thanks for showing us these. What a beautiful governmental district. -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amagayneroshak at gmail.com <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt