Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> On Jul 7, 2017, at 1:03 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > > 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. As I always find myself saying ?I love having you out ?there? bringing art to my eyes." fond regards, George http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.imagist.com http://www.linkedin.com/imagist