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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 10
From: Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 07:45:30 +0100

On Saturday, my son and I were on Zurich's Langstrasse buying
ingredients for the Chinese food we were going to cook that evening
(this is new weekend pastime, cooking Chinese). Suddenly we heard chants
and noise, and we were engulfed by a demonstration arranged by various
left-wing groups in connection with International Women's Day. Now, the
actual day (8 March) was Friday, but I guess in Switzerland the
revolution can be postponed by one day so that the revolutionaries do
not need to take a day off work to overthrow the existing order ;-)

The head of the demo:

http://www.wajsman.com/2002_10.jpg

Langstrasse, in addition to being the place to go in Zurich for Chinese,
Indian and other Asian foods (as well as Carribean stuff) is also the
city's red light district. I got some shots of bemused prostitutes
looking on the demo from their windows, but unfortunately none of them
were of PAW standard. The best I could do was this shot of the
demonstration passing one of the many "nightclubs":

http://www.wajsman.com/2002_10alt1.jpg

As usual, the police were out in force, but everything was peaceful this
time (as opposed to the traditional battles between police and
anarchists on May Day):

http://www.wajsman.com/2002_10alt2.jpg

All pictures taken with the Leica M6, 24mm Elmarit, on Delta 400.

The main PAW index is at:

http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm

and comments/critique are welcome and appreciated as always.

Nathan

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Nathan Wajsman
Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland

e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch

Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm
General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm


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