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Subject: [Leica] IMG: New gallery - a walk through a little known jewel of a city
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:47:22 +0200
References: <4EA9C567.6090608@gmx.de> <CACkqTDRJPgNTCWL-579Crt-aUw8zus9nxBUNgziaBvwP5bKA0g@mail.gmail.com>

ditto

very neatly shot and processed.

plus I'm happy to see you back in the trade Douglas

I also noticed the Canon on the table, is it a Leica neckstrap that  
you grafted on it ;-)

Amiti?s from the other side of the Rhine

Philippe

Le 27 oct. 11 ? 23:26, Quan Tran a ?crit :

> Douglas,
>
> Thank you for giving a grand tour of such a beautiful city. You  
> capture the
> essence and the atmosphere of the place very well. It is a lovely  
> place to
> sit down for some coffee.
>
> These are my favorites: _MG_2859, 09B324FA, _MG_2650, 02F6ECEF,  
> 11DF9157
>
> Thanks for sharing,
> -Quan.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Douglas Sharp  
> <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> most people tend to drive straight past *Tangerm?nde* over one of  
>> the few
>> bridges that cross the Elbe river (on the B188 East-West highway  
>> from Berlin
>> to Hannover) without noticing that it's there.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.**org/v/DMS/Germany/**Tangermuende/<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Tangermuende/
>>  
>> >
>>
>> The city, as its name infers, is at the point where the river  
>> Tanger joins
>> the Elbe, and has been a city since the 12th century and also the  
>> seat of a
>> the German emperor Karl IV. The opriginal castle was razed to the  
>> ground by
>> the Swedes, but much of the medieval fortifications still survive -  
>> almost
>> all of it is brickwork, and hardly any stone.
>>
>> Most of the city now dates from 1671, after a young woman by the  
>> name of
>> Grete Minde burned the city down as revenge for her mistreatment -  
>> her name
>> has gone down in German literature in a classic novel by Theodor  
>> Fontane
>> published in 1879
>>
>> We always stop there for lunch or a coffee and a break from driving  
>> with a
>> walk around the city.
>>
>> This ancient city is in the process of being brought back to its  
>> former
>> glory after years of very limited investment under the communist  
>> regime of
>> the GDR. As can be seen, some parts are still very much in need of
>> redevelopment, but the work is in full swing throughout most of the  
>> city.
>>
>> The Schloss built on the foundations of the old castle is now a 4- 
>> star
>> hotel (with very reasonable prices), and some of the towers of the  
>> medieval
>> castle now contain hotel rooms - including the prison tower!!
>>
>> Although the pictures were shot on 3 separate visits (one of them  
>> very
>> cloudy and dull), their order shows our usual route and our usual  
>> stops
>> around the place.
>>
>> Well worth a visit if you are ever in the area.
>>
>> I'll be putting up some of the shots in colour when I get around to  
>> it.
>>
>> Hope you enjoy the visit
>> Douglas
>>
>> BTW: the lady in the  leather jacket is Frauke, my missus.
>>
>> Some of the shots with rather low contrast were shot with a Tamron  
>> zoom I
>> picked up for 15 euros at the flea market in Berlin - it's not one  
>> of their
>> best:-)
>>
>>
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>
> -- 
> Quan Tran.
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