[Leica] Wales pics to come.

[photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)]

Wonderful, Larry, I look forward to the pics (I had previously read the 
letters, you sent me the link some time last year I think).

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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YNWA







On Dec 15, 2010, at 11:12 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:

> Since Gee Bee is no longer posting his lovely pictures of the English
> countryside to the LUG, perhaps I can take up a little of the slack for
> those that need a UK image fix. Ten years ago I spent some time as a
> visiting professor at the Univ. of Wales - Bangor to write a book on
> international management theory. My chair was endowed by Unilever, a 
> company
> that wanted to sell cosmetics to people who traditionally used yak butter 
> as
> cold cream.
> 
> 
> The reason I'm writing this is that I just discovered a long forgotten CD
> with dozens of photos taken during our stay. Although the trip was not
> intended for photography I had few academic responsibilities, other than to
> act profound, write and attend a few conferences, so we had plenty of time
> to explore the countryside. Most of the pictures were taken to send home so
> that the children would not worry about the trouble that the old folks were
> getting into. I had very little photographic equipment with me, just a
> trusty Rollei 35SE, and an Agfa ePhoto 307, a very first generation digital
> camera suitable only for low resolution web photos. Clearly not up to the
> LUG's standard.
> 
> 
> North Wales is totally unlike the Lake Country that Gee Bee documented.
> There are few bucolic rural scenes. Coal and slate mines are long gone. But
> there are plenty of mountains and rugged coastlines. So many that it took
> the English over 300 years to conquer Wales. And they had to build a ring 
> of
> castles to do it. It is the Afghanistan of the UK. We lived on the island 
> of
> Anglesey, just across the Irish Sea from Dublin, separated from the Welsh
> mainland by the very tidal and rapidly flowing Menai Strait. Our small home
> offered a beautiful view of the strait and the Snowdonia mountains beyond.
> We bought a tiny automobile, a SEAT with 108 thousand miles on it, and
> roamed the Welsh countryside. I'll post a few pictures every week or so, 
> not
> as a travelog but as a picturesque documentary of a UK backwater.
> 
> 
> If anyone is interested, here is a link to the diary of our stay in Wales:
> 
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/18642688/An-American-in-Wales
> 
> 
> Here is a link to the book, actually the first draft, written during my
> stay:
> 
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/18505256/Applied-CrossCultural-Research
> 
> 
> Finally, here is a link to the paper that got me the opportunity to free
> load for a year off the British taxpayers:
> 
> <
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/18742093/How-Much-Woe-When-We-Go-Predicting-culture-shock
>> 
> 
> 
> I'll post the pictures starting tomorrow.
> 
> 
> Larry Z
> 
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