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

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

This one:
https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-FM75VwB/A
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 1:13 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
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.
>
> 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
>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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> YNWA
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