Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you , Philippe, for your kind words - if only I had been intending the shots to look like that - they are a last ditch effort at rescuing something from abysmally dark, grainy, badly stored slides. Which only goes to show that one should never throw anything away immediately :-) Cheers Douglas Philippe Orlent wrote: > I'm not really interested in trains, but the graphism of the first > two photographs (as the one you showed before) opens up this subject > to a broader and unspecialised audience. > Beautiful work. Good seeing. > Thanks for showing, > Philippe > > > > Op 6-jul-06, om 13:05 heeft Douglas Sharp het volgende geschreven: > >> Three more from the railway workshops in the Harz Mountain town of >> Wernigerode. >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/Forge_3A_edited_2 >> As far as I know, this is where they made bearings for locomotive >> axles, there is a bin of some kind of metal ingots to the right of >> the melting pot >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/Shed_2_RGB_edited_2 >> Heavy Diesel-Electric locomotive, a strange hybrid - this is a >> standard gauge loco on a narrow gauge chassis, probably the 5-year >> plan for narrow gauge locomotives didn't work out. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/Shed_5_BW_edited_3 >> Brigade - a communist German description for a group of workers >> working in a particular sector - probably >> Eisenbahnausbesserungswerksbrigade - Railway repair shop group - >> don't they love those long words :-) >> 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 >