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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Postcards from Dresden
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:46:44 +0530
References: <36172e5a0906231921g4ec18513ic01fb794d86b1ac3@mail.gmail.com>

Lovely place, lovely photos.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
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> Show me your photographs.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
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>
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