Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Don, Thanks for looking and your thoughts. When I came to the US in 1983, I too was struck by the relative absence of urban life. During the following 12 years I came to recognize that not all US cities are alike in this respect. Besides the obvious exceptions like New York or San Francisco or Philadelphia, I found Buffalo (yes, Buffalo!) where I lived for 2 years quite attractive. We lived close to downtown, off a major street called Elmwood Ave., which was full of shops, bars, and people actually walking around. At the other extreme was Tampa, where I lived for 3 years and which I absolutely hated. After 5 pm downtown was completely dead, the stores were closed (since the office workers had gone home to the suburbs) and the only people you would see out and about were the homeless. Nathan Don Dory wrote: > Nathan, > Viewing your images and others from Europe, I am struck by how similar our > worlds are when we are looking at the relatively modern era. Skyscrapers, > train stations, bars, open air markets, what have you. But go back to what > was there 100 years ago and our two worlds are very different. In a few > places, old New Orleans, a few spots in our older cities like Boston, > Savanah, Philadelphia, public squares in our smaller towns like Natchez > there is a similar view. But many of the European cities still have large > swathes of urban life not too removed from a long time ago whereas in the > U.S. we will keep a token building or maybe a block but bulldoze the rest > down and replace it with something different. > > This thought has been simmering in the back of my head since a couple of > years ago when I took my dad back to where he grew up, as much for me as > for > him. Even in Grand Island, Nebraska which is a back water town on the edge > of the corn belt, the old was being torn down or modernised with not much > respect for what had gone before. If it was old, it just had not been > rehabed yet. > > 0.02 > > Don > don.dory@gmail.com > > > On 1/29/06, Nathan Wajsman <nathan.wajsman@planet.nl> wrote: > >>After all this travelling at the beginning of the year, my PAWs from >>weeks 3 and 4 are all from around here. The PAW 3 images are here: >>http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws/?page_id=9 >> >>and PAW 4 is here: >>http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws/?page_id=10 >> >>There are even a couple of Leica lens images in the mix... >> >>The complete PAW index is here: >>http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws/ (with a self-portrait added on the main >>page), and as always, comments & critique are gratefully welcomed. >> >>Nathan >>-- >>Nathan Wajsman >>Almere, The Netherlands >> >>General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com >>Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >>Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com >> >>Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman >>http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 >>Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com >> >>Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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 > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog