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Subject: [Leica] IMG : Egypt - A not so bright side of life ...
From: photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com (Philippe)
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 20:46:23 +0200
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You nailed it Don.

I wish more people had (had?) this wonderful opportunity to reconsider their 
vision of the (their small?) world as it is.

Makes humanity so much more human ?


Thank you dear Don.

Amities

Philippe



> Le 30 mars 2020 ? 20:42, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a ?crit 
> :
> 
> But that is why we travel.   There is good, not so good, and truly awful
> out in the world everywhere you go.   If you don't get out you don't really
> know.   Thanks for showing the not so good.
> 
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 11:14 AM Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Five takes today - the last one is BW
>> 
>> 
>> The first three illustrate a point made by Xavier B on the Leicareflex
>> list, who remembered well extremely poor sanitary conditions on the road
>> back from Saqqarah.
>> 
>> 
>> Here, a canal in Cairo in which I even saw the decaying carcass of a horse
>> ...
>> 
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/2020-Egypt/2020+-+Egypt+-+Flotstam-0760.jpg.html
>> 
>> And yet people live and work there - this street stank like hell and I
>> felt sick over the two or three miles of its length ...
>> 
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/2020-Egypt/2020+-+Egypt+-+And+yet-0789.jpg.html
>> 
>> Kids and adults toil in the midst of refuse, plastic bags, and more ? long
>> live plastics ...
>> 
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/2020-Egypt/2020+-+Egypt+-+Hygiene-0782.jpg.html
>> 
>> 
>> On a lighter note, I also felt sorry for this poor chap, for other reasons
>> bringing me back in time ...
>> 
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/2020-Egypt/2020+-+Egypt+-+Hard+luck-0800.jpg.html
>> 
>> 
>> But I wouldn?t finish the series without something more aesthetic (in
>> spite of the presence of the armed soldier) and in BW :-)
>> 
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/2020-Egypt/2020+-+Egypt+-+Contrejour-1095.jpg.html
>> 
>> Some may be viewed large for better appreciation.
>> 
>> Amities
>> 
>> Philippe
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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