[Leica] re: Doug's Berliner Fotos

[dnygr at cshore.com (dnygr)]

Douglas

I enjoyed your photos of Berlin. I well remember die alte Gedaechniskirche. 
From where you were shooting, there used to be a nice cafe to the left where 
I often drank coffee or tea. Your photo brought back some memories. 

Back a street and to the right in the direction of the Julius Stern Music 
School, there was a camera shop on a sidestreet. I bought a Praktika Nova B 
there from a Holocaust survivor who had moved back to the city. I didn't 
know enough then to value the help the man had given me when he sold me the 
camera. It had a Zeiss lens, though the name didn't mean anything to me 
then. It took wonderful black and white photos. That I did recognize. It 
broke mysteriously in front of Kafka's house in Prague (and was fixed just 
down the street from it).


I don't know the bridge you shot, but I liked your photo.

You and Nathan have made my week. Many thanks to you both for sharing your 
work.

Doug Nygren, New Haven, Connecticut

Doug Nygren 

 
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