Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Great shot, Nathan. Gosh, "Don't Feed Him, Cook Him" - I thought they would be chocoholics over there. > 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 > > -- > 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 > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html