Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, Viewing your images and others from Europe, I am struck by how similar our worlds are when we are looking at the relatively modern era. Skyscrapers, train stations, bars, open air markets, what have you. But go back to what was there 100 years ago and our two worlds are very different. In a few places, old New Orleans, a few spots in our older cities like Boston, Savanah, Philadelphia, public squares in our smaller towns like Natchez there is a similar view. But many of the European cities still have large swathes of urban life not too removed from a long time ago whereas in the U.S. we will keep a token building or maybe a block but bulldoze the rest down and replace it with something different. This thought has been simmering in the back of my head since a couple of years ago when I took my dad back to where he grew up, as much for me as for him. Even in Grand Island, Nebraska which is a back water town on the edge of the corn belt, the old was being torn down or modernised with not much respect for what had gone before. If it was old, it just had not been rehabed yet. 0.02 Don don.dory@gmail.com On 1/29/06, Nathan Wajsman <nathan.wajsman@planet.nl> wrote: > > After all this travelling at the beginning of the year, my PAWs from > weeks 3 and 4 are all from around here. The PAW 3 images are here: > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws/?page_id=9 > > and PAW 4 is here: > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws/?page_id=10 > > There are even a couple of Leica lens images in the mix... > > The complete PAW index is here: > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws/ (with a self-portrait added on the main > page), and as always, comments & critique are gratefully welcomed. > > Nathan > -- > Nathan Wajsman > Almere, The Netherlands > > General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com > Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com > > Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman > http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 > Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com > > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >