Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 10
From: kiklaas@iinet.net.au
Date: 13 Mar 2002 07:16:30 -0000

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
> 
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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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