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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 14/1/2021: a blast from a very distant past, or "when I had hair"
From: leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram Langhans)
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:54:49 -0800
References: <433D4946-7BA8-40BE-A70D-E93C179CC062@frozenlight.eu> <9866F02B-A7D3-4906-8610-696D49FB48A6@gmail.com> <CALDqMLbWTZSp9yxzwEvW0nRCXoeVFe4hNSTiQiNvM86xkTq45A@mail.gmail.com>

It truly is, but I wonder in this digital age how many will be able to 
make the trip is say 50 years from now?

On 1/15/2021 9:39 AM, Jasse Chan wrote:
> Honestly - isn't it amazing to take a ride on a time machine like an old
> photograph?
>
> Thanks for sharing!
>
> jasse
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 8:19 AM Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Fun indeed !
>>
>> Hope you?re feeling fine.
>>
>> Amities
>>
>> Philippe
>>
>>
>>
>>> Le 14 janv. 2021 ? 21:45, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> a 
>>> ?crit
>> :
>>> One of the many gifts Santa brought my wife this Christmas was an Epson
>> scanner designed to scan standard drugstore family photos in bulk. You pop
>> in a stack of photos (up to 30, I think), press a button, and let it rip.
>> My wife has long wanted to digitize the many old photos we have, and she
>> loves the scanner?for once, a piece of equipment that actually works as
>> advertised. Among the old photos she came across this gem from 1978, 
>> before
>> we had even met. It was my senior year of high school in Denmark, and I 
>> was
>> taking Russian as my third foreign language (English and German were
>> mandatory, but you could choose Russian, French or Spanish as the third
>> one). It was customary to make a weeklong trip to the country whose
>> language you were studying, so we went for a week to Moscow and Leningrad
>> (today St. Petersburg). I have no idea who took this photo on the plane
>> from Copenhagen to Moscow, and it is technically horrible, but it is still
>> a nice reminder of the time when I was young and the world looked like an
>> open road:
>>> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-mTzn2Pr/A
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> 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
>>>
>>> "I?m not arguing, I?m just explaining why I?m right"
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In reply to: Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Nathan's PAD 14/1/2021: a blast from a very distant past, or "when I had hair")
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