Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>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: Nathan, almost all of these are very lovely photos, thanks for sharing. I know who I would like on my lap. With a daughter like that, you ought to know better ;-) Have a nice X-mas Chris >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 >-- >Nathan Wajsman >Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland > >e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch >mobile: +41 78 732 1430 > >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 - -- Christer Almqvist D 20255 Hamburg and / or F 50590 Regnéville sur Mer please look at my b+w pictures at: http://www.almqvist.net/chris/new - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html