Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information