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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Southern Friesland
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Sat May 19 19:17:14 2007
References: <464E9740.1070403@nathanfoto.com>

I'd love to visit, but only in the Summer. We Floridians have an inbred 
fear of snow. :-)  Really nice images.

Walt

Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> After I posted my PAW 18, I had some very positive off-list responses 
> to the Friesland images, so I have put some more up here:
> http://www.frozenlight.eu/friesland/
>
> These are all from the southern part of Friesland, villages like 
> Stavoren and Hindeloopen. Even though Friesland is not far from 
> Amsterdam (nothing is really far here in the Netherlands), it is a 
> totally different world. It is one of my favourite places for a day 
> trip. Each village is different, and the landscape, although flat and 
> sometimes stark, is beautiful. This is not wilderness; this land is 
> man-made through centuries of fighting the sea. Were it not for the 
> dikes, much of Friesland, which lies below sea level, would be under 
> water.
>
> Nathan
>


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