Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for browsing through the city Philippe, it really is a wonderful place (when the sun shines), and well worth a visit. There was quite a bit of "fiddling" on a few of them, I could have done with a graduated grey filter to tone down the light skies, but the grad filter in LR seems to work quite well. There's a pretty nasty reason for the houses getting wider at the top - the people used to throw their "slops" (liquid, solid and stinking) out of the windows, and this stopped the on the floors people below getting a neckful of it - yukk! Greetings from Teutonia Douglas Philippe Amard wrote: > Hey that's a delivery Douglas ! > And an invitation to visit the Goslar too. > > My favourites so far are : > 69 & 92 - give a nice idea of the place - nice lines too > 26 better composition than 27 but colours are less Velvia seen from here > 37 - nice work on contrast while keeping the colours probably right - > did you have to fiddle a lot? > 59 - impressive inversed pyramid there ... > I like the BW conversions even though when colourless, timbered houses > tend to look alike in many countries > 804 - for the contrejour, the lady and the hats - we miss the kutche > and it could have been taken 150 ago - love it in fact > > Thanks for the impromptu trip. > Amiti?s de Metz > Philippe > > PS: I bet there a few of them you could sell to the tourist office I > saw on one of your photos > > Douglas Sharp wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> Goslar is a small city in the north west of the Harz Mountains, about >> 60-70 kilometres from here (Hannover). >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Goslar/?g2_page=1 - >> and following pages >> >> After the discovery of metallic ores - lead, zinc, copper, a little >> gold and a lot of silver - it became one of the richest cities in >> Europe and an imperial residence. Silver coins minted in Goslar were >> so pure that they became something like a standard currency in many >> countries of Europe >> >> The story is told, and depicted by the animated clock in the market >> square, that a knight's horse kicked up the ground to reveal silver >> ore. Not being one to miss out on immense wealth, the Emperor decided >> to take up residence in the city. >> >> The Palatinate palace was built in the 11th century as an imperial >> residence by Henry the Second to protect and maintain the town?s >> prosperity, and the Imperial Assembly of the Holy Roman Empire was >> held there from 1009 to 1219. >> >> (The palace looks like an industrial building to me, it just doesn't >> look all that old from outside) >> >> Mining of the Rammelsberg, the mountain just outside the city began >> around 968 and continued until 1988 when the mine closed. >> >> The mining complex is now a part of the UNESCO World Heritage. >> >> The city's timbered houses and the grey slate cladding of roofs and >> walls are typical of many Harz mining cities. >> >> I hope you enjoy a photographic walk around the town centre. >> >> Cheers >> Douglas >> >> For the technically minded, the wide stuff is shot with a Tokina >> 12-24 on a Canon 20D, the rest with a Zeiss 1.4/85 and a Summicron-R >> 2/35mm >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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