Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Welcome home Nathan Thanks for the images: I'll be Donny doesn't look as good as Lone now ;-) I too had some fun times last year with "re-unions" and they can be frightening. The Pizza making images were my favourites from this group. Caught a typical moment. Cheers Nathan Wajsman writes: > Back from holiday, I am slowly catching up. My last PAW from 2004 takes us > to my hometown in Denmark, ?rhus, and then to the city where I was born, > Wroclaw (Breslau), Poland. > > I went to ?rhus just before Christmas to spend a couple of days with my > best friend Lars. However, this trip was different, because I also met up > with some classmates from primary school, whom I had not seen since the > 1970s. The main picture is one of those people. Lone was the prettiest > girl in our class, but unfortunately her heart belonged to Donny Osmond > (we are talking 1976 here, folks!). Here she is, 27 years later: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_52.jpg > > That evening, Lars made pizza for dinner, and his little niece helped out. > Here she's got something on her hands: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_52alt1.jpg > > ...and here she is disposing of it as a child would do: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_52alt2.jpg > > I then went on to Poland. Like some other cities in the former Communist > block, Wroclaw is one big construction zone: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_52alt3.jpg > > I spent Christmas and New Year with my sister and her husband. One of our > tasks was to go through my father's photo albums and decide what to > keep--not an easy job: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_52alt4.jpg > > During a walk on Wroclaw's central square, Rynek, I spotted these two > ladies in conversation: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_52alt5.jpg > > Finally, we visited the Jewish cemetery in Wroclaw. The city belonged to > Germany until 1945, so all graves from the pre-war period were inscribed > in German (and Hebrew); then a long break, until graves inscribed in > Polish begin to appear around 1947-48. But the strangest (for me, anyway) > experience was to look at the World War I memorial, with the names of the > Wroclaw/Breslau Jews who had fallen on the battlefield, fighting for > Germany: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_52alt6.jpg > > The complete PAW index is at: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/indexpaw2004.html > and comments/critique are always welcome and appreciated. First PAWs of > 2005 will be posted tomorrow. > > Nathan > -- > Nathan Wajsman > Almere, The Netherlands > > General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com > Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Alastair Firkin @ work ;-) http://www.afirkin.com http://www.familyofman2.com