Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Don I guess most of them were at home watching the total World Cup football coverage - three games a day! I was very surprised that the centre was so empty too - but a super-wide makes spaces empty too Douglas Don Dory wrote: > Douglas, > Good images to lure us all to your home town. Not many people though, > too > early after Saturday night or is the city center not very inhabited > during > the weekend. > > Don > don.dory@gmail.com > > > On 6/11/06, Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@gmx.de> wrote: > >> >> Be warned, quite a lot coming up - Glorious weather yesterday, and it >> still is, took a walk around the centre of town and took a few pictures >> of some of the "attractions" >> >> Starting at the Opera >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3961_edited_1 The >> figures around the top are Shakespeare, Goethe, Schiller and co (strange >> - they didn't have much to do with opera, but King George was mad >> anyway), down Georgstrasse past the Holocaust Memorial >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3964_edited_1 which >> always looks out of focus on pictures (it isn't) >> The sloping sides have the names of many Jewish residents of Hannover >> and neighbouring towns who were deported to more or less certain death >> in Riga, Auschwitz and Treblinka. >> The Deutsche Bank, parts of this portal turn up in Kurt Schwitters >> "Merz" collages >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3967_edited_1 >> Schwitters, born in Hannover, died in exile in the UK, is now buried in >> a cemetary in the North West of Hannover. The name Merz came from an >> inscription on another Hannoverian bank, and is part of the word >> "Commerz" (meaning commerce). >> At the end of Georgstrasse, not far from Aegidientor Platz ( with the >> Hiroshima Memorial church ruin - next time) is the Landesmuseum, >> everything is in there, Dinosaurs, paintings of Prussians (it was the >> museum of the Prussian Provincfe of Hannover after the Kings got kicked >> out) http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3972_edited_1. >> Behind where I was standing to take this shot is the Maschpark, this >> landscaped garden is one of my favourite combinations of gardening and >> architecture, as can be seen in the next four shots of the Rathaus, this >> one is called the "New" Rathaus, Hannover has two, the old one is in the >> Altstadt >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3972_edited_1 >> There's nothing wrong with my lens, the building really is bent - it was >> built on marshy ground on a platform of oak logs and it's sinking a bit >> at both ends. >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3975_edited_1 The >> interior of the green dome is unique in having a lift which runs on >> rails up the inside of the curved >> dome, the floor of the lift is only level when you reach the viewing >> platform at the top. In a couple of weeks the water in the forground of >> this shot will be a carpet of water lilies - but then the reflection has >> gone. http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3988_edited_1 . >> The Ugly glass building on the right is the new Regional Bank, >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3990_edited_1 . >> Crossing the river, the Leine (Hannover comes from Am Hohen Ufer, >> meaning on the higher river bank) you reach the Wasserkunst, >> this used to be a timbered, water powered mill and pumping station, very >> old and beautiful - it was pulled down in the mid-sixties. >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3993_edited_1 >> The Schloss is now the seat of the Parliament of Lower Saxony, the >> church on the right is the immense red-brick gothic Marktkirche. There's >> no pigeon guano on this church because a pair of Peregrine Falcons took >> up residence in the tower some years ago. >> I'll comment on the following pictures when I've a bit more time >> Comments criticism and questions about Hannover are more than welcome >> cheers >> Douglas >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information