Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My weeklong trip to Belgium, Germany and Poland during the penultimate week of June ended in the city of Wroc?aw in south-western Poland, the place where I was born and where my sister lives. I spent a weekend there, the weather was good, the days are long this time of year, so despite the short visit I took a lot of pictures. Wroc?aw is a city of about 700,000 people with a large university and an international ambience. A lot of foreign investment has poured into the city since 1989, and it shows: new shopping malls, an Amazon distribution centre outside the city, lots of other companies creating jobs. But also restoration of old parts of the city, a new university campus near my sister?s place, new art galleries?the latter spurred on by Wroc?aw being the European Capital of Culture in 2016. As usual, I spent a lot of time looking at art, in a couple of places: a WWII bunker that is now a modern art gallery (and which I always visit), and a newly restored place called Four Domes Pavillon near the Century Tower. It used to be a film studio, where people like Andrzej Wajda made films back in the 1950s and 1960s. It then fell into disrepair, but has now been beautifully restored and turned into a branch of the national art museum, focusing on contemporary art. Just my thing! Ninety-one images from a place most of you have never visited: http://www.frozenlight.eu/wro_june2017/ As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated. Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA