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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Postcards from Dresden
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:06:31 +0000

Geoff,

Nice set of photos.  They remind me of the photos I took there.  A nice 
place to visit.

Gene
-------------- Original message from Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at 
gmail.com>: -------------- 


> 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. 
> Leica already has a CEO and a business plan. 
> Show me your photographs. 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ 
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman 
> 
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