[Leica] Nathan's PAD 23/2/2022: a walk in Copenhagen

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

The last two for me

Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 12:55 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> I am spending a couple of days in Copenhagen, a business trip for once. I
> arrived Wednesday afternoon, did the usual routine of checking into my
> hotel, hanging the clothes etc., and then set out to enjoy the city. The
> weather was very nice for February.
>
> I first walked to Halmtorvet, an area next to the meat packing district,
> today home to many bars and restaurants. Back in the 1970 and 80s the area
> was known mainly for prostitution and drug dealing and using, but things
> are different now. There is a park and a lot of new construction, and the
> locals are just regular people, like this man with his two dogs:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-BK2QDb4/A
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> There was some interesting art, using discarded construction materials as
> the canvas:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-HfRLfGP/A
>
> And a small reminder of the bad old days, a memorial stone to the drug
> users who did not make it:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-7RcN55R/A
>
> I then walked down Strøget, the main pedestrian street, where I ran into a
> small group demonstrating in favour of the Canadian terrorists and some
> vague, Trumpist notion of “freedom”. I guess we have idiots here too, both
> imported (I heard a lot of Canadian/US English as I walked through the
> crowd) and domestic:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-vfP7Wpt/A
>
> Then the magic hour arrived, dusk on the illuminated street. The staircase
> just visible in the lower right corner is an expression of a higher
> civilisation. It leads to a free public toilet, clean, warm, and impeccably
> maintained:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-fXxRJC8/A
>
> A couple by the Stork Fountain on Amagertorv, a square near the end of
> Strøget:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-4N7ZfrV/A
>
> Strøget ends at a large round square called Kongens Nytor, where I met up
> with my friend Beata, and we had some drinks and a nice dinner at an
> Italian restaurant. Late in the evening, I did not feel like walking to my
> hotel, so I took the metro instead, which provided me with the last image
> of the day:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-LzwpMHV/A
>
> One unusual (for me) thing about these photos: they were taken with my
> Fuji X-E3, and since my laptop which still runs the last standalone version
> of LR cannot digest the RAW files generated by this camera, I shot both RAW
> and JPEG. These images are the JPEGs; when I get home tonight, I will
> reprocess everything based on the RAW files, but I think these are good
> enough for a PAD.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
>
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