[Leica] IMG: Postcards from Dresden

[rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler)]

Beer, shopping, sunshine,?shooting your Leica...
What's not to like!
Thanks for letting us come along Geoff. I'm a bit jealous though...
Best,
Bob
?Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.raflexions.com 




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On 6/24/09 10:21 AM, "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote:

> My Dresden gallery is here:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/g/d/
> We arrived the day prior to President Obama's overnight stay. The security
> for his Germany visit was reported to cost 13,000,000 Euros.
> We saw at least half of that in the form of Polizei in endless streams on
> the autobahn into Dresden.
> I started to photograph some of the security personnel, when it occurred to
> me that it may not be entirely sensible to disrupt my holiday plans with an
> unsceduled chat in some basement.
> 
> Dresden itself was very substantiall rebuilt and this is ingoing. In major
> buildings you can see the patchwork effect of new stone with the salvaged
> oxidised stone from the original structures.
> A very striking and interesting city.



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