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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Postcards from Dresden
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:45:18 -0500
References: <36172e5a0906231921g4ec18513ic01fb794d86b1ac3@mail.gmail.com>

Geoff,

I enjoyed your postcards very much. I used an Exacta at one time, made in 
Dresden, and have read of the disastrous fire storms during WWII.  Nice to 
see it is back up and thriving so well as a tourist destination.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 9:21 PM
Subject: [Leica] IMG: Postcards from Dresden


> My Dresden gallery is here:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/g/d/
> We arrived the day prior to President Obama's overnight stay. The security
> for his Germany visit was reported to cost 13,000,000 Euros.
> We saw at least half of that in the form of Polizei in endless streams on
> the autobahn into Dresden.
> I started to photograph some of the security personnel, when it occurred 
> to
> me that it may not be entirely sensible to disrupt my holiday plans with 
> an
> unsceduled chat in some basement.
>
> Dresden itself was very substantiall rebuilt and this is ingoing. In major
> buildings you can see the patchwork effect of new stone with the salvaged
> oxidised stone from the original structures.
> A very striking and interesting city.
>
> -- 
> Cheers
> Geoff
> Artisan excellence for the best lenses in the world.
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> Show me your photographs.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
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>
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