[Leica] Nathan's PAD 12/6/2018: four more from Sofia

[Jim Nichols]

I agree that the image with the smiling girl in the corner is 
exceptional.  The smile adds warmth to all of the crowd on the stairs.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 6/12/2018 2:43 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Today was a day of work, from around 8:30 to 5:30, so it was less picture-rich than usual (although I did take quite a few in the evening also). These four were taken during the working day.
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> I walked from my hotel to the conference venue, around 1.5 km and a pleasant walk in the morning. But first I stopped to light a candle for my mother in the Orthodox church next to my hotel. As is apparent from the scarcity of chairs/pews, during Orthodox services the congregation stands:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-jSdGM24/A
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> I then spent all day in a conference room at the National Palace of Culture. Afterwards, I photographed this scene on the square outside. Boys will be boys:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-FM75VwB/A
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> It was close to 30C and humid, and I was wearing a suit, so rather than walking back to the hotel, I took the metro, just one stop. When I got off at Serdika, the main station in the Sofia metro system (because the two metro lines built so far cross here), I photographed the afternoon crowd. And then a girl on the edge of frame turned to me and smiled. She is out of focus, and the picture is technically deficient, but I still like it:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-nPrNhWz/A
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> And then a picture that made me sad and maybe less sad at the same time. When I was in Sofia in February, I noticed a poor homeless dog outside the Serdika metro station, looking around. It was cold and I felt so sorry for the poor creature, but what could I do? The next day I noticed that the dog was sleeping inside the station, in a quiet corner next to a pharmacy, and there was a bowl of water—so clearly someone there was looking after it. And today, I saw the same dog sleeping in exactly the same spot:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-Thn5PcZ/A
> I wish I could take him with me to Alicante when I go home tomorrow very early in the morning…but of course I can’t. At least there are some good people at this metro station, evidently.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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