Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/02/22

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: [Leica] Sao Paulo
From: lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (lluisripollphotography)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 02:01:24 +0100
References: <CAH1UNJ0dMvA0jAENx8wa8Ta7og1tHwcdn=sbW-wx4=Sm1kd0ow@mail.gmail.com>

Very nice set Jayanand, impressive the museum in Sao Paolo! A pleasure see 
also Alastair and Helen.

Thanks for sharing
Lluis


> El 22 febr 2017, a les 13:08, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> 
> va escriure:
> 
> I suddenly discovered that I had not put up my photographs taken during our
> couple of days in Sao Paulo on the way to the Pantanal in Brazil in August
> last year. Rio was hosting the Olympics at that time, so we decided to go
> via Sao Paulo, a decision made easy by the fact that a very good friend of
> mine, Armando Bruck, a regular street photography cohort in Chennai over
> the preceding three years, had relocated to his home town of Sao Paulo. In
> fact it was the best decision we made, because Armando, being a local, took
> us to various nooks and corners of Sao Paulo, something we would not have
> dared to do by ourselves, given the city's fearsome reputation of being one
> of the most dangerous cities in the world.
> 
> Armando on his BMW:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Sao+Paulo/Sao+Paulo-20160807-3531.jpg.html
> 
> On the afternoon of the day Neela & I arrived, before Alastair and Helen
> Firkin had joined us from Australia, we took a half day guided tour of Sao
> Paulo
> 
> Parque Trianon is a small swathe of natural, native forest, carefully
> preserved in the heart of Sao Paulo:
> 
> Exercise:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Sao+Paulo/Sao+Paulo-20160807-3539.jpg.html
> 
> Privacy:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Sao+Paulo/Sao+Paulo-20160807-3542.jpg.html
> 
> Family:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Sao+Paulo/Sao+Paulo-20160807-3545.jpg.html
> 
> Avenida Paulista, or Paulista Avenue, is the commercial heart of Sao Paulo,
> Brazil's commercial capital, and is closed to traffic on Sundays, so the
> people take over:
> 
> Busker:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Sao+Paulo/Sao+Paulo-20160807-3552.jpg.html
> 
> Traffic Lite:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Sao+Paulo/Sao+Paulo-20160807-3559.jpg.html
> 
> Sap Paulo is a city full of superb museums, funded by the coffee barons
> over the years. The Sao Paulo Museum of Art on Avenida Paulista is given
> over to Western Art, from the middle ages to the present:
> 
> Classics:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Sao+Paulo/Sao+Paulo-20160807-3563.jpg.html
> 
> Neela and the Modiglianis:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Sao+Paulo/Sao+Paulo-20160807-3569.jpg.html
> 
> Inspection:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Sao+Paulo/Sao+Paulo-20160807-3572.jpg.html
> 
> The next day, reunited at last, the Firkins and the Govindarajs set off for
> a walk to the sprawling, huge Ibirapuera Park near our hotel in the safe
> side of town:
> 
> Trio:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Sao+Paulo/Sao+Paulo-20160808-3583.jpg.html
> 
> Black Swan:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Sao+Paulo/Sao+Paulo-20160808-3596.jpg.html
> 
> Please see LARGE
> 
> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Leica Users Group.
> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information



Replies: Reply from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Sao Paulo)
In reply to: Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Sao Paulo)