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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 50: Christmas in Zurich
From: Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 18:10:45 +0100

This is the last PAW I will post this year, as I head north to Belgium 
and Denmark on Monday and will not be able to scan stuff there. So some 
time in early January I will post weeks 51, 52 and 1, hopefully I will 
have enough light in Denmark to actually take a picture ;-)

This week's crop has a Christmas theme. First, I spotted this Santa 
outside a lingerie shop in the mall under Zurich's main station. If I 
ever encounter one dressed like this, I will happily sit in his (or 
rather her) lap, or perhaps vice versa:

http://www.wajsman.com/2002_50.jpg
(Voigtlander Bessa R2, 35mm Summilux ASPH, Fuji Press 800)

The alternates are in an entirely different vein. On one of the squares 
off Zurich's main shopping street, Bahnhofstrasse, there is a "singing 
Christmas tree" every December. It is really a wooden structure covered 
with branches, able to accomodate lots of singing children. Every 
evening until the 22nd a different school from the area performs, and 
last week it was the turn of the Inter-Community School, which my 
children attend. My daughter (3rd grade) participated, and of course I 
was there with my camera.

First, the children and teachers had to get into their outfits in a 
hotel a few hundred metres from the tree. Here are the teachers 
struggling with their electric Santa hats:
http://www.wajsman.com/2002_50alt1.jpg

My daughter in her outfit:
http://www.wajsman.com/2002_50alt2.jpg

Now everyone is ready to walk to the tree. Of course I focused on my 
daughter, but it is actually the girl in the foreground who makes this 
picture:
http://www.wajsman.com/2002_50alt3.jpg

Now we're there and the children enter the tree:
http://www.wajsman.com/2002_50alt4.jpg

Of course it takes a bunch of 3rd graders several minutes to calm down 
and find the right page in the song book:
http://www.wajsman.com/2002_50alt5.jpg

But finally they get going:
http://www.wajsman.com/2002_50alt6.jpg

All the alternates taken with Bessa R2 on Fuji Neopan 1600 developed in 
XTOL 1+3; the first four with the 35mm Summilux ASPH, and the last two 
with the 50mm Summilux.

The complete PAW index is at:
http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm

and comments and critique are always welcome and appreciated.

Nathan
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Nathan Wajsman
Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland

e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch
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